Journal Papers

Mor Peleg, Nuaman Asbeh, Tsvi Kuflik and Mitchell Schertz, 2009. Onto-clust - A methodology for combining clustering analysis and ontological methods for identifying groups of comorbidities for developmental disorders. Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) 42(1) pp. 165-175.

Tsvi Kuflik, Daniele Prodorutti, Andrea Frizzi, Yochai Gafni, Shoham Simon Ilaria Pertot, 2009. Optimization of copper treatments in organic viticulture by using a web-based decision support system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 68(1) pp. 36-43.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2009. “P2P Case Retrieval with an Unspecified Ontology” Artificial Intelligence Review 28(3), pp. 227-255.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2008. “Cross-Representation Mediation of User Models”, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). Vol. 1 9 ( 1-2 ), pp 35- 63.

Ernesto D'Avanzo, Tsvi Kuflik and Miltiadis D. Lytras, 2008. Building and using domain ontologies for learning in various domains: A semantic web based learning perspective. The International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) 4(4), pp 329-348.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2008. “Mediation of user models for enhanced personalization in recommender systems”. User modeling and User Adapted Interaction Vol. 18 (3), pp 245-286.

Tsvi Kuflik, Ilaria Pertot, Robert Moskovitch, Rosaly Zasso, Elisabetta Pellegrini, Cesare Gesler, 2007. Optimizing Plant Disease Scouting Efforts Using a Decision Support System Based on Disease Infection Risk Assessment, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Vol 62/2 pp 118-127.

O. Stock, M. Zancanaro, P. Busetta, C. Callaway, A. Krüger, M. Kruppa,  T. Kuflik, E. Not and C. Rocchi, 2007. Adaptive, Intelligent Presentation of Information for the Museum Visitor in PEACH. User modeling and User Adapted Interaction Vol. 17 (3), pp 257-304.

* Winner of 2007 James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Paper

Tsvi Kuflik, Zvi Boger and Peretz Shoval, 2006. Filtering Search Results Using an Optimal Set of Terms Identified By an Artificial Neural Network, Information Processing & Management 42, pp. 469-483.

Goren-Bar, D. and Kuflik, T., 2005. Supporting Users Subjective Categorization with SOM and LVQ. Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology Vol. 56 (4), pp 345-355.

Shapira, B., Elovici, Y., Meschiach A. and Kuflik T., 2005. PRAW- A Model for PRivAte Web. Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology Vol. 56(2), pp 159-172.

I.Pertot, R.Zasso, R.Moskovitch, T.Kuflik, C.Gessler, 2004. FireFight per prevenire il colpo di fuoco delle pomacee. L ’INFORMATORE AGRARIO Vol 48, pp. 1-3.

Peretz Shoval and Tsvi Kuflik, 2004. Effectiveness of Title-Search vs. Full-Text Search in the Web. International Journal of Information Theories & Applications Vol 11(2), pp 151-157.

Amir Tomer, Lea Goldin, Tsvi Kuflik , Ester Kimchi and Steve Shach., 2004. Evaluating Software Reuse Alternatives: A Model and its Application to an Industrial Case Study. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Vol. 31(9), pp 601-612.

Kuflik, T. Shapira, B. and Shoval, P., 2003. Stereotype-Based Vs. Personal-Based Filtering Rules in Information Filtering Systems. Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology Vol. 54 (3),pp. 243-250.

Boger, Z. Kuflik, T. Shoval, P. Shapira, B., 2001. Automatic Keyword Identification By Artificial Neural Networks Compared To Manual Identification By Users Of Filtering Systems.Information Processing & Management Vol. 37(2), pp. 187-198.

Fakher-Eldeen F., Kuflik T., Nissan E., Puni G., Salfati R., Shaul Y., Spanioli A., 1993. Interpretation of Imputed Behavior in ALIBI (1 to 3) and SKILL. Informatica e Diritto, Year XIX, 2nd Series, Vol. II, No. 1/2, pp. 213-242.

Kuflik T., Nissan E., Puni G.,1992. Finding Excuses with ALIBI: Alternative Plans That Are Deontically More Defensible. Information Technology & Society: Theory, Uses, Impacts (ed. J. Lopes Alves). APDC & SPF ( Lisbon), pp. 484-510.

Kuflik T., Nissan E., Puni G., 1991. Finding Excuses With ALIBI: Alternative Plans That Are Deontically More Defensible. Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 297-325

Meisles A., Kuflik T. Gudes E., 1991. Limited Resource scheduling by generalized rule-based system. Knowledge Based Systems 4, pp. 215-224.

Gudes E., Kuflik T., Meisels A.,1990. On Resource Allocation by an Expert System. Engineering Applications of AI. 3, pp. 101-110.

Conference Proceedings

Irit Hadar, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi. An empirical study of Requirements Model understanding: Use Case vs. Tropos models. ACM SAC 2010.

Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik. Social Signal Processing: Detecting Small Group Interaction in Leisure Activity, Proceedings of the 13th international conference on intelligent user interfaces (IUI 2010), 7-10 Febuary 2010, Hong Kong, China, pp.

Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik, Group Situational Awareness: Being Together. Proceedings of Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing workshop June 22nd 2009, Trento, Italy (Co-located with UMAP 2009).

Tsvi Kuflik and Katerina Poteriaykina. Integrating User Modeling Server with User Modeling Mediator on a personal Device. Proceedings of UbiqUM2009, the 7th International Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modelling, June 22nd 2009, Trento, Italy (Co-located with UMAP 2009).

Tsvi Kuflik and Katerina Poteriaykina. User Model on a Key. In Proceedings of Hypertext 2009, Torino, Italy, June 29th-July 1st 2009 pp. 371-372.

Yosi Ben Asher, Shlomo Berkovsky, Paolo Busetta, Yaniv Eytani, Sadek Jbara and Tsvi Kuflik. Adaptive Retrieval of Semi-Structured Data, accepted to Adaptive Hypertext and Adaptive Hypermedia (AH&H) 2008. pp. 32-41.

Sadek Jbara, Tsvi Kuflik, Pnina Soffer, Oliviero Stock. “Generic Communication Service Agents for Mobile Applications in Cultural Heritage Sites”. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems. Athens, Greece, March 9-12, 2008. pp. 353-359.

Annibale Elia, Ernesto D'Avanzo, Tsvi Kuflik, Giovanni Catapano, Mara Gruber. “An Online Linguistic Journalism Agency – Starting Up Project”. LangTech 2008, Feb. 28-29, San Michele a Ripa, Rome, Italy. pp 106-109.

Tsvi Kuflik, “Semantically-Enhanced User Models Mediation: Research Agenda”, 5th international workshop on ubiquitous user modeling (UbiqUM 2008), co-located with IUI 2008, Gran Canaria, Spain, January 13th, 2008.

Shlomo Bercovsky, Yaniv Eitany, Tsvi Kuflik and Francesco Ricci. “Enhancing Privacy and Preserving Accuracy of a Distributed Collaborative Filtering”. ACM conference on Recommender systems, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA October 19 - 20, 2007, pp 9-16.

Shlomo Bercovsky, Tsvi Kuflik and Francesco Ricci. “Distributed Collaborative Filtering with Domain Specialization”, ACM conference on Recommender systems, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA    October 19 - 20, 2007, pp 33-40.

E. Kantorowitz, T Kuflik and A. Raginsky. “Estimating the Required Code Inspection Team Size”. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology and Engineering (SwESTE 2007), Herzlia, Israel, 30-31 October, 2007, pp104-115.

Sadek Jbara, Tsvi Kuflik, Pnina Soffer and Oliviero Stock. “Context Aware Communication Services in “Active Museums””. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology and Engineering (SwESTE 2007), Herzlia, Israel,30-31 October, 2007, pp127-135.

Gius, Erminio, Kuflik, Tsvi, D’avanzo, Ernesto,Landi, Laura and Spivak, Ekaterina. A preliminary “Examination of the Gap between Providers and Customers in the eCommerce Marketplace”, proceedings of the 2007 Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS 2007, San Servolo, Venice, Italy, Oct.4-7, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 27-32.

Tsvi Kuflik, Cesare Gessler, Ilaria Pertot, Shoham Simon, Yochai Gafny, Eitan Soffer and Dani Hoch, “Towards Global eAgriculture: The Challenges of Web-Based Decision Support Systems for Growers”, proceedings of the 2007 Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS 2007, San Servolo, Venice, Italy, Oct.4-7, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 189-198.

S.Berkovsky, N.Borisov, Y.Eytani, T.Kuflik, F.Ricci, “Examining Users' Attitude towards Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering”, Workshop on Data Mining for User Modeling (K-DUUM), co-located with UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 25th, 2007.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Ariel Gorfinkel, Tsvi Kuflik and Larry Manevitz. “Evaluating User Model Effectiveness by Simulation”. PATCH workshop, co-located with UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 25th, 2007.

Ernesto D’Avanzo, Annibale Elia,  Tsvi Kuflik and Simonetta Vietri. LAKE System at DUC-2007, Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL 2007). April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York.

Tsvi Kuflik, Adriano Albertini, Paolo Busetta, Cesare Rocchi, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro. An Agent-Based Architecture for Museum Visitors' Guide Systems. Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling workshop, co-located with UM 2007.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, Cross-Domain Mediation in Collaborative Filtering, In proceedings of 11th International Conference, UM 2007 Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. pp 355-359.

M. Zancanaro, T Kuflik, Z Boger, D Goren-Bar and D Goldwasser Analyzing Museum Visitors’ Behavior Patterns, In proceedings of 11th International Conference, UM 2007 Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. pp. 238-246.

Jurg Muler, Antonio Kruger and Tsvi Kuflik, Adaptation of Public Displays, In proceedings of 11th International Conference, UM 2007 Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. pp 395-399.

Erminio Gius, Ernesto D’avanzo, Tsvi kuflik, Ekaterina Spivak, Tiziana Capozzoli, Laura Landi. A preliminary Examination of the Gap between Customers and Providers in the eCommerce Marketplace. ILAIS 2007, May 21st, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Tsvi Kuflik, Julia Sheidin, Sadek Jbara, Dina Goren-Bar, Pnina Soffer Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro. Supporting Small Groups in the Museum by Context-Aware Communication Services. IUI 2007, January 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 305-308.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Lora Aroyo, Dominik Heckmann, Geert-Jan Houben, Alexander Kröner, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, “Predicting User Experiences through Cross-Context Reasoning”, Proceedings of ABIS 2006 - 14th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems, 9-11 October 2006, Hildesheim, Germany.

Gramazio T., Schlevin V., Yashaev S., Bortoluzzi L., Micheli S., Kuflik T., Elad Y., Pertot I. ( 2006), Bar code labeling system for managing and tracking microbial culture collections and experiments in labs, IOBC/WPRS Working Group: Biological control of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens Fundamental and practical approaches to increase biocontrol efficacy, September 6-10, SPA, Belgium.

T. Gramazio, V. Schlevin, S. Yashaev, L. Bortoluzzi, T. Kuflik, Y. Elad, I. Pertot. Bar Code Labeling For Laboratory Safety Management And Experiment Planning In Plant Protection. In proceedings of the 4th world congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Orlando, FL, USA, July 24-26, 2006, pp. 128 – 133.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Dan Goldwasser, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, “Identifying Inter-Domain Similarities through Content-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Web-Directories”, in proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 30th - 31st, 2006. pp 789-790. 

Shlomo Berkovsky, Ariel Gorfinkel, Tsvi Kuflik and Larry Manevitz, “Case-Based to Content-Based User Model Mediation”, in proceedings of the Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling, in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, “Enhancing Privacy while Preserving Accuracy of the Collaborative Filtering”, in proceedings of the Workshop on Recommender Systems, in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.

Ernesto D'Avanzo, Marcello Frixione, Tsvi Kuflik. “LAKE system at DUC-2006”. Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL 2006). June 8 and 9, 2006. New York City, NY.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, “Cross-Technique Mediation of User Models”, in proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH), pp. 21-30, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006. – Best Paper Award

Shlomo Berkovsky, Yaniv Eytani, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci. Hierarchical Neighborhood Topology for Privacy Enhanced Collaborative Filtering, CHI 2006 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization (PEP06), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 22-23 April 2006.

Tsvi Kuflik, Adriano Albertini, Paolo Busetta, Cesare Rocchi, Oliviero Stock, and Massimo Zancanaro
An Agent-Based Architecture for Museum Visitors' Guide Systems, Enter 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland, 18 – 20 January 2006.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci Entertainment Personalization Mechanism through Cross-Domain User Modeling, Intetain 2005, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 30 November -2 December 2005.

Soffer P., Goldin L. & Kuflik T. , 2005 A Unified RE Approach for Software Product Evolution: Challenges and research agenda. Situational Requirements Engineering Processes – Methods, Techniques and Tools to Support Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Processes, SREP’05 Paris, France, 29-30 September 2005.

Charles Callaway, Tsvi Kuflik, Elena Not, Alessandra Novello, Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro, 2005, Personal Reporting of a Museum Visit as an Entrypoint to Future Cultural Experience, IUI 2005, January 2005, San-Diego, CA, USA, pp. 275-277.

O.Stock,C.Rocchi,M.Zancanaro and Tsvi Kuflik, 2005, Discussing groups in a mobile technology environment, MU3I workshop, IUI 2005, January 2005, San-Diego, CA, USA, pp. 5-6

Dina Goren-Bar, Ilenia Graziola, Tsvi Kuflik, Fabio Pianesi, Cesare Rocchi, Oliviero Stock,and Massimo Zancanaro, 2005, I like it –An Affective Interface for a Multimodal Museum Guide, Affective Interfaces workshop: The Computer in the Affective Loop Workshop, IUI 2005, January 2005, San-Diego, CA, USA.

Loris Penserini, Paolo Bresciani, Tsvi Kuflik and Paolo Busetta, 2005, Using Tropos to Model Agent Based Architectures for Adaptive Systems: a case study in ambient intelligence, SwSTE’05, IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, 22-23 February 2005, Herzlia, Israel (Accepted).

Shlomit Morad and Tsvi Kuflik, 2005, Conventional and Open Source Software Reuse at Orbotech- an Industrial Experience, SwSTE’05, IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, 22-23 February 2005, Herzlia, Israel (Accepted).

Tsvi Kuflik, Charles Callaway, Dina Goren-Bar, Cesare Rocchi, Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro, 2005, Non-Intrusive User Modeling for a Multimedia Museum Visitors Guide System, UM 2005, 23-30 July 2005, Edinburgh, UK, (Accepted).

Ernesto D'Avanzo and Tsvika Kuflik, 2005, Linguistic Summaries on Small Screens, Data Mining 2005, Sixth International Conference on Data Mining, Text Mining and their Business Applications 25 - 27 May 2005, Skiathos, Greece.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik and Francesco Ricci, 2005, P2P Case Retrieval with an Unspecified Ontology, ICCBR 2005, 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 23-26 August 2005, Chicago, IL, USA (Accepted).

Shlomo Berkovsky, Yaniv Eytani, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2005, Privacy-Enhanced Collaborative Filtering, Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, in conjunction with UM 2005, 25 July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Shlomo Berkovsky, Paolo Busetta, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2005, Collaborative Filtering over Distributed Environment, Workshop on Decentraliszed Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling, in conjunction with UM 2005, 25 July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dina Goren-Bar and Tsvi Kuflik , 2004. Don't Miss-R – Recommending Restaurants through an Adaptive Mobile System. IUI 2004, January 2004, Madeira, Portugal., pp. 250-252.

Tsvi Kuflik , Paolo Busetta, Loris Penserini, Paolo Bresciani and Massimo Zancanaro, 2004. Personalized Information Delivery in Dynamic Museum Environment by Implicit Organizations of Agents. Workshop on Environments for Personalized Information Access, May 25, 2004 , Gallipoli , Italy , pp. 22-33.

Peretz Shoval and Tsvi Kuflik, 2004. Effectiveness of Title-Search vs. Full-Text Search in the Web. Second Special Workshop On Multimedia Semantics, June 20 – 27, 2004 , Bulgaria , Macedonia , Greece.

Shlomit Morad and Tsvi Kuflik., 2004. OSS Reuse at Orbotech - An Industrial Experience הכנס הישראלי השנתי לתוכנה – הנדסה וניהול ICSEM04 28 ביוני 2004, המכללה האקדמית נתניה

Rosaly Zasso, Robert Moskovitch , Tsvika Kuflik, Ilaria Pertot And Cesare Gessler, 2004. Integrated forecasting systems for monitoring Fire Blight in Trentino, July 2004, San Michele all’Adige, Italy .

Rosaly Zasso, Ilaria Pertot , Robert Moskovitch , Tsvi Kuflik, Dani Shtienberg , Cesare Gessler1, 2004. Metodi numerici,statistici e informatici nella difesa delle colture agrarie e delle foreste ricerca e applicazioni Gestione Del Monitoraggio Del Colpo Di Fuoco Batterico In Trentino Mediante Un Software Che Integra Diversi Modelli Previsionali Della Malattia , 24 –26 Novembre 2004 , Firenze, Italy.

Paolo Busetta, Tsvi Kuflik , Mattia Merzi and Silvia Rossi, 2004. Service Delivery in Smart Environments by Implicit Organizations. The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), August 22-26, 2004 - Boston , MA , USA .

Paolo Bresciani , Loris Penserini , Paolo Busetta and Tsvi Kuflik , 2004. Agent Patterns for Ambient Intelligence. 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004), November 8-12, Shanghai , China.

Tsvi Kuflik, Bracha Shapira, Yuval Elovici and Adlai Masciach, 2003. Privacy P reservation Improvement by Learning Optimal Profile Generation Rate. UM 2003, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2003, pp. 168-177.

Tsvi Kuflik and Peretz Shoval, 2003. Explicit vs. Implicit Knowledge in Generation of User Profile for Information Filtering IUI 2003, Miami , FL. USA , January 2003.

Kuflik, T., 2002. ISWRIC – Israeli Software Reuse Industrial Consortium Project presentation and initial lessons learned. The Israeli 22 nd IEEE Convention, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2002, pp. 210-211.

Kuflik, T., 2002. ISWRIC-Israeli Software Reuse Industrial Consortium, Project Presentation and Initial Lessons Learned. The Fourteenth International Conference of the Israel Society for Quality, Jerusalem , Israel , November, 2002, pp. 48-50.

Goren-Bar, D., Kuflik, T., Lavie, D., 2001b. Automating Personal Categorization Using Artificial Neural Networks. User Modeling 2001. Sonthofen , Germany , July 2001, pp. 188-198.

Goren-Bar, D., Kuflik, T., Lav, D., 2001a. Supervised Learning for Automatic Classifications of Documents using Self-Organizing Maps First DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2000, pp. 143-146.

Goren-Bar, D., Kuflik, T., Lavie, T., 2001. What do users prefer? A personalized intelligent user interface for searching information – an empirical study. IUI 2001 conference, Santa-Fe , NM , USA , January 2001, pp. 65-68.

Kuflik, T., Shoval, P., 2000. Generation of User Profiles for Information Filtering – Research In Progress. Agent-Oriented Information Systems 2000, the 2nd International Workshop at CAiSE*00, Stockholm , June 2000, pp. 63-72.

Boger, Z., Kuflik, T., Shapira, B. Shoval P., 2000. Information Filtering and Automatic Keyword Identification by Artificial Neural Networks. ECIS 2000 A Cyberspace Odyssey, Trends in Information Systems for the 21 st Century. Vienna , Austria , July 2000, pp. 379-385.

Kuflik, T., Shoval, P., 2000. Generation of User Profiles for Information Filtering – Research Agenda. ACM SIGIR 2000 conference, Athens , Greece , July 2000, pp. 313-315.

Kuflik,T. Marelly, R. Telyas A. Israeli Air Force, Kudish, J. Systems & Software Engineering, Rodnizky, J. Soreq Nuclear Research Center,1998. "From Advisory To full Authority Range Safety Systems". IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems, Maale-Hachamisha , Israel , 1998, pp. 234-239.

Gudes E., Kuflik T., Meisels A., 1990. An Expert Systems Based Methodology for Solving Resource Allocation Problems. The 3 rd International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & Expert Systems, Charleston , 1990, pp. 309-317.

Kuflik T., Nissan E. & Puni G.,1989. Finding Excuses With ALIBI: Alternative Plans That Are Deontically More Defensible. International Symposium on Communication, Meaning & Knowledge, versus Information Technology, Lisbon , Portugal , 1989.

Kuflik Z. Gudes E., Meisels A. & Shoval P., 1988. A Generic Expert System for Resource Allocation. 5th National AI Conference, Ramat Gan , Israel , 1988, pp. 293-299.