Selected Publications:
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When Are Users Comfortable Sharing Lcoations with Advertisers?
Patrick G. Kelley, Michael Benisch, Lorrie F. Cranor, and Norman Sadeh.
Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 2011 (Note).
Earlier version: CMU Technical Report CMU-ISR-10-126, 2010. - Capturing
Location-Privacy Preferences: Quantifying Accuracy and User-Burden
Tradeoffs.
Michael Benisch, Patrick G. Kelley, Norman Sadeh, Lorrie F. Cranor.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), 2010. - Algorithms for
Closed Under Rational Behavior (CURB) Sets.
Michael Benisch, George B. Davis, Tuomas Sandholm.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2010.
Earlier version: American Association of Artifical Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2006 (Nominated for Best Paper). - Methodology for
Designing Reasonably Expressive Mechanisms with Application to Ad
Auctions.
Michael Benisch, Norman Sadeh, and Tuomas Sandholm.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009.
Earlier version: ACM EC Workshop on Advertisement Auctions, 2008. - A Theory of
Expressiveness in Mechanisms.
Michael Benisch, Norman Sadeh, and Tuomas Sandholm.
American Association of Artifical Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2008.
Extended version: CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-07-178, 2007. - What Differentiates a
Winning Agent: An Information Gain Based Analysis of TAC-SCM.
James Andrews, Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, and Norman Sadeh.
Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP), 2008.
Earlier version: AAAI Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA), 2007. - Factoring Games to
Isolate Strategic Interactions.
George B. Davis, Michael Benisch, Kathleen Carley, and Norman Sadeh.
International Conference on Automated Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2007.
Extended version: CMU Technical Report CMU-ISRI-06-121R, 2006. -
CMieux: Adaptive Strategies for Supply Chain Management.
Michael Benisch, James Andrews, Alberto Sardinha, and Norman Sadeh.
International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2006.
Extended version. Electronic Commerce Research Applications, 2007. -
Pricing for Customers with Probabilistic Valuations as a Continuous
Knapsack Problem.
Michael Benisch, James Andrews, and Norman Sadeh.
International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2006. -
Examining Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP) Coordination Tradeoffs.
Michael Benisch, and Norman Sadeh.
International Conference on Automated Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2006.
Extended version. DCSP Simulator Java Code (requires Repast) -
CMieux Analysis and Instrumentation Toolkit for TAC SCM. (get
the toolkit here)
Michael Benisch, James Andrews, David Bangerter, Timothy Kirchner, Benjamin Tsai, and Norman Sadeh
CMU Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-127, 2005. -
Effects of Mediator Selection Strategies for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction.
Michael Benisch and Norman Sadeh.
Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR), 2005. -
A Stochastic Programming Approach to Scheduling in TAC SCM.
Michael Benisch, Amy R. Greenwald, Victor Naroditskiy, and Michael Carl Tschantz.
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM EC), 2004. -
Botticelli: A Supply Chain Management Agent.
Michael Benisch, Amy Greenwald, Ioanna Grypari, Roger Lederman, Victor Naroditskiy, and Michael Tschantz.
International Conference on Automated Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2004. -
Multi-period Online Optimization in TAC SCM: The Supplier Offer Acceptance Problem.
Sarah Bell, Michael Benisch, Margaret Benthall, Amy Greenwald, and Michael Carl Tschantz.
Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA), 2004.
Selected Awards:
- Siebel Scholar,
Class of 2011.
Awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to 80 top students from the world's leading graduate schools. -
Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student
Teaching Award, Honorable Mention, 2007.
University-wide award given to encourage and recognize exemplary teaching by a graduate student. - IBM
PhD Fellowship, Finalist, 2007.
A competitive program which honors exceptional PhD students in many academic diciplines and areas of study.
Teaching Assitant Positions:
- Graduate Artificial
Intelligence.
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Professors: Geoff Gordon and Ziv Bar-Joseph. Fall, 2006. - Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence.
Computer Science Department, Brown University
Professor: Amy Greenwald. Spring, 2004. - CS: An Integrated Introduction II.
Computer Science Department, Brown University
Professor: Philip Klein. Spring, 2003. - CS: An Integrated Introduction I.
Computer Science Department, Brown University
Professor: John "Spike" Hughes. Fall, 2003.
Graduate Courses Taken:
- Intermediate Statistics, Fall 2006. Kathryn Roeder.
- Negotiation, Spring 2006. Linda Babcock.
- Dynamic Network Analysis, Spring 2006. Kathleen Carley.
- Foundations of Electronic Marketplaces, Fall 2005. Tuomas Sandholm.
- Graduate Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2005. Tuomas Sandholm and Mike Lewicki.
- Machine Learning, Spring 2005. Tom Mitchell and Carlos Guestrin.
- Fundamental Network Analysis Methods, (1/2 Semester) Spring 2005. David Krackhardt
- Algorithms in the Real World, Fall 2004. Guy Blelloch.
- COS Lab, Fall 2004. Latanya Sweeney.
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