Publications

For an updated list of publications see my google scholar profile

Ph.D. Dissertation

Methods for definition of Content Based and Rule based User Profile in Information Filtering Systems, Hebrew, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 162 pages, August 2003. Supervisor: Prof. Peretz Shoval.

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published

  1. Opher Etzion, Tsvi Kuflik and Amihai Motro (Eds.) Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS), LNCS volume 4032, 357 pages, Springer, 2006.
  2. Yishai Feldman, Donald Kraft and Tsvi Kuflik (Eds.), Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS), LNCS volume 5831, 171 pages, Springer, 2009.
  3. Tsvi Kuflik, Shlomo Berkovsky, Francesca Carmagnola, Dominik Heckmann and Antonio Kruger (eds.), Advances in Ubiquitous User Modeling, LNCS volume 5830, 159 pages, Springer, 2009.
  4. Liliana Ardissono and Tsvi Kuflik (eds.) Advances in User Modeling Perspectives, LNCS volume 7138, 224 pages, Springer, 2012.
  5. Tsvi Kuflik and Antonio Kruger (eds.), Advances in Ubiquitous Display Environments, 240 pages (estimated), Springer, 2012.
  6. Tsvi Kuflik, Oliviero Stock, Joyce Chai, Antonio Krüger (eds.) Proceedings of the companion publication of the 19th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 370 pages, ACM, 2014.
  7. Tsvi Kuflik, Oliviero Stock, Joyce Chai, Antonio Krüger (eds.) Proceedings of the 19thinternational conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 88 pages, ACM, 2014.
  8. Dimitrova, V., Kuflik, , Chin, D., Ricci, F., Dolog, P., Houben, G.-J. (Eds.) User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. 22nd International Conference, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. Proceedings, 510 pages, Springer, 2014.
  9. Judy Kay Tsvi Kuflik and Aaron Quigley (Eds.) Special Issue of UMUAI on Ubiquitous User Modeling, 25(3), 2015.

Articles in Refereed Journals

  1. Gudes E., Kuflik T., Meisels A., 1990. On Resource Allocation by an Expert System. Engineering Applications of AI. Vol. 3(2), pp. 101-109.
  2. Kuflik T., Nissan E., Puni G., 1991. Finding Excuses With ALIBI: Alternative Plans That Are Deontically More Defensible Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10(4), pp. 297-325. (now called Computing and Informatics).
  3. Meisles A., Kuflik T. Gudes E., 1991. Limited Resource scheduling by generalized rule-based system. Knowledge Based Systems 4(4), pp. 215-224.
  4. 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. (Italian).
  5. 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 37(2), pp. 187-198.
  6. 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 54 (3), pp. 243-250.
  7. Amir Tomer, Lea Goldin, Tsvi Kuflik, Ester Kimchi and Steve Schach., 2004. Evaluating Software Reuse Alternatives: A Model and its Application to an Industrial Case Study. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 30(9), pp 601-612.
  8. Peretz Shoval and Tsvi Kuflik., 2004. Effectiveness of Title-Search vs. Full-Text Search in the Web. International Journal of Information Theories & Applications 11(2), pp 151-157.
  9. 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. (Italian).
  10. 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 56(2), pp 159-172.
  11. 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 56(4), pp 345-355.
  12. 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 (2), pp 469-483.
  13. 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.
  14. Tsvi Kuflik, Ilaria Pertot, Robert Moskovitch, Rosaly Zasso, Elisabetta Pellegrini, Cesare Gesler, 2007. Optimization of Fire blight scouting with a decision support system based on infection risk, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Vol 62/2 pp 118-127.
  15. Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2008. Mediation of user models for enhanced personalization in recommender systems. User modeling and User Adapted Interaction 18 (3), pp 245-286.
  16. 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. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) 4(4), pp 329-348.
  17. Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2008. Cross-Representation Mediation of User Models, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). Vol. 19 (1-2), pp 35-63.
  18. 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.
  19. Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2009. P2P Case Retrieval with an Unspecified Ontology. Artificial Intelligence Review 28(3), pp. 227-255.
  20. 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.
  21. Loris Penserini, Tsvi Kuflik, Paolo Busetta and Paolo Bresciani, 2010. Agent-Based Organizational Structures for Ambient Intelligence Scenarios. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 2(4) pp. 409-433.
  22. Tsvi Kuflik, Pnina Soffer, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Sadek Jbara, Oliviero Stock, 2011. Generic Framework for Context-Aware Communication Services in Visitor Guides, Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (JSEA), 4(4) pp. 268-281.
  23. Kuflik, T., Stock, O., Zancanaro, M., #Gorfinkel, A., Jbara, S., Kats, S., Sheidin, J. and Kashtan, N. 2011. A Visitor’s Guide in an “Active Museum”: Presentations, Communications, and Reflection. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 3(3) article 11.
  24. Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2012. The Impact of Data Obfuscation on the Accuracy of Collaborative Filtering. Expert Systems with Applications 39 (2012) 5033–5042.
  25. Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik, Oliviero Stock Alan J. Wecker and Massimo Zancanaro. 2011. Examining pro-activeness and choice in a location-aware mobile museum guide. Interacting with Computers 23(5) pp. 513-524.
  26. Liliana Ardissono, Tsvi Kuflik, Daniela Petrelli. 2012. Personalization in Cultural Heritage: The Road Travelled and the One Ahead. User Modling and User Adapted Interaction 22(1-2) pp. 73-99.
  27. Ilaria Pertot, Tsvi Kuflik, Igor Gordon, Stanley Freeman, Yigal Elad. Identificator: A web-based tool for visual plant disease identification, a case study on strawberry, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 84(2012) pp. 144-154.
  28. Shlomi Sela, Tsvi Kuflik and Gustavo S. Mesch. 2012. Changes in the discourse of online hate blogs: The effect of Barack Obama’s election in 2008. Published in the November 5th 2012 issue of First Monday.
  29. Irit Hadar, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi. 2013. Comprehending Scenario and Goal-Oriented Requirements Models: An Empirical Study. Information and Software Technology 55 (2013) 1823–1843.
  30. Ernesto D’avanzo and Tsvi Kuflik. 2013. E-Commerce Websites Services vs. Buyers Expectations: an empirical analysis of the online marketplace. The International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 12(4) pp 651-677.
  31. Danial-Saad, Alexandra; Kuflik, Tsvi; Weiss, Patrice L; Schreuer, Naomi. 2013. Building an Ontology for Assistive Technology using the Delphi Method. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 8(4), pp. 275-286.
  32. Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik, Eyal Dim, Alan J. Wecker. 2013. The influence of a location-aware mobile guide on museum visitors’ behavior patterns. Interacting with Computers 25 (6): pp. 443-460.
  33. Ayelet Gal-Tzur, Susan M. Grant-Muller, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov, Silvio Nocera and Itay Shoor. 2014. The Promise of Social Media in Delivering Transport Policy Goals. Transport Policy (23): pp. 115-123.
  34. Lanir, J., Bak, P. and Kuflik, T. 2014. Visualizing Proximity-Based Spatiotemporal Behavior of Museum Visitors using Tangram Diagrams. Computer Graphics Forum. 33 (3): pp. 261 – 270.
  35. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik. 2014. Automatic Detection of Social Behavior of Museum Visitor Pairs. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 4(4), Paper 17, Special Issue on Activity Recognition for Interaction (27 pages).
  36. Ayelet Gal-Tzur, Susan M. Grant-Muller, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov, Silvio Nocera and #Itay Shoor. 2014. Enhancing Transport Data Collection through Social Media Sources: Methods, Challenges and Opportunities for Textual Data. IET Intelligent Transport Systems.
  37. Ido Beja, Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik. 2015. Examining factors influencing the disruptiveness of notifications in a leisure mobile context. Human Computer Interaction (32 pages).
  38. Danial-Saad, Alexandra; Kuflik, Tsvi; Weiss, Patrice L; Schreuer, Naomi. 2015. Effectiveness of a Clinical Decision Support System for Pointing Device Prescription. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69: pp.
  39. Tsvi Kuflik, Alan J. Wecker, Joel Lanir and Oliviero Stock. 2015. Technology for Extending the Boundaries of the Museum Visit Experience: A Framework for Linking the Pre, During and Post Visit Phases. Information Technology and Tourism Information Technology & Tourism, 15 (1), pp 17-47.
  40. E. Dim, Kuflik, I. Reinhartz-Berger. 2015. When User Modeling Meets Software Engineering: the Info-bead User Modeling Approach. User Modling and User Adapted Interaction.
  41. Kali, Yael; Kuflik, Tsvi; Sagy, Ornit; Maayan-Fanar, Emma; Mogilevsky, Orit. 2015. Harnessing technology for promoting undergraduate art education: A novel model that streamlines learning between classroom, museum and home. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 8(1) 5-17.
  42. Alexandra Danial-Saad, Tsvi Kuflik, Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss, Naomi Schreuer, Usability Matters. Assistive Technology using the Delphi Method. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.
  43. Lavid, Ben-Lulu, David and Kuflik Tsvi, 2016. Wise Mobile Icons Organization: Apps Taxonomy Classification using Functionality Mining to Ease Apps Finding. Mobile Information Systems, Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 3083450, 22 pages.
  44. Joel Lanir, Alan J. Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik, Yasmin Felberbaum, 2016. Shared mobile displays: An exploratory study of their use in a museum setting. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(4) 635–651.
  45. Korman M., Kizony R., Hochhauser M., Kuflik T., Wecker A.J. and Weiss P.L. 2016. Spatial working memory performance in real museum environment vs. computer simulation: a comparison between healthy elderly and young adults. Journal of Pain Management, suppl. Special issue: Using virtual reality technologies to support; Hauppauge9.3 (2016): 283-289.
  46. Joel Lanir , Tsvi Kuflik, #Julia Sheidin, #Nisan Yavin, #Kate Leiderman, #Michael Segal, 2017. Visualizing Museum Visitors’ Behavior: Where do they go and what do they do there? Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 21(2), 313-326 doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0994-9 (1-14).
  47. Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov, Silvio Nocera, Susan Grant-Miller, Ayelet Gal-Zur. (2017). Automating a framework to extract and analyze transport related social media content: the potential and the challenges. Transportation Research Part C, 77, 275–291). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.02.003.
  48. Einat Minkov, Tsvi Kuflik, #Keren Kahanov. (2017). Graph-based Recommendation Integrating Rating History and Domain Knowledge: Application to On-Site Guidance of Museum Visitors. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. JASIST 68(8) 1911-1924.
  49. Fabiana Vernero, Cristina Gena, Federica Cena, Tsvi Kuflik, Alan Wecker. (2017) Personality of rating scales - How scale features influence user rating behavior. Behavior & Information Technology 36(10) 985-1004.
  50. Tsvi Kuflik, #Moayed Mokatren and Ilan Shimshoni, (2018). Exploring the potential of mobile eye tracker as an indoor intuitive pointing device: A case study in cultural heritage". Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 81, April 2018, Pages 528-541.

Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (which are not Conference Proceedings)

  1. 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.
  2. Paolo Busetta, Paolo Bresciani, Loris Penserini, Silvia Rossi, Tsvi Kuflik, Adriano Albertini, Alessandro Cappelletti. Delivering Services In Active Museums Via Group Communication, in Stock & Zancanaro (eds.), PEACH – Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2007. pp. 95 – 120.
  3. Tsvi Kuflik and Cesare Rocchi. User Modeling and Adaptation for a Museum Visitors’ Guide – the PEACH Experience, in Stock & Zancanaro (eds.), PEACH – Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2007. pp 121 – 146.
  4. Oliviero Stock, Antonio Kruger, Tsvi Kuflik and Massimo Zancanaro. Intelligent Interfaces for Groups in a Museum, in Stock & Zancanaro (eds.), PEACH – Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2007. pp. 269 – 288.
  5. Prodorutti D., Pellegrini A., #Simon S., #Gafni Y., Kuflik T., Frizzi A., Pertot I. “Coptimizer”: a decision support system to reduce copper in organic viticulture. European meeting on biological and integrated control in modern viticulture, Marsala, Sicily, Italy, October 25-27, 2007.
  6. Berkovsky, S., Heckmann, D. and Tsvi Kuflik. Addressing Ubiquitous User Modeling Challenges, in Kuflik, Berkovsky, Carmagnola, Heckmann and Kruger (eds), Advances in Ubiquitous User Modeling, LNCS volume 5380, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2009. pp. 1-19.
  7. Amit Tiroshi, Tsvi Kuflik, Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld. Recommender Systems and the Social Web, in Ardissono and Kuflik (eds), Advances in User Modeling Perspectives, LNCS volume 7138, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012. pp. 60-70.
  8. Kuflik, T, Kay, J & Kummerfeld, B, Challenges and Solutions of Ubiquitous User Modeling, in Kuflik and Kruger (eds), Ubiquitous Display Environments ,Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 7-31.
  9. Kuflik, T., Boger, Z., & Zancanaro, M. (2012). Analysis and Prediction of Museum Visitors’ Behavioral Pattern Types. In Ubiquitous Display Environments (pp. 161-176). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  10. Kuflik T. Ubiquitous Display Environments: an Overview, in Kuflik and Kruger (eds), Ubiquitous Display Environments ,Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 1-6.
  11. Oliviero Stock, Tsvi Kuflik, Massimo Zancanaro, Dina Goren-Bar, Ariel Gorfinkel, Sadek Jbara, Shahar Kats, Julia Sheidin, and Nadav Kashtan. Design and Evaluation of a Visitors’ Guide in an Active Museum. In: Language, Culture, Computation. Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives. 2014, 47-71, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

Articles in Conference Proceedings (all peer reviewed)

Major Conferences

Published

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

2. 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 21st Century. Vienna, Austria, July 2000, pp. 379-385. (equal contribution of all authors)

3. 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.

4. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

5. Goren-Bar, D., Kuflik, T., Lavie, D., 2001. Automating Personal Categorization Using Artificial Neural Networks. User Modeling 2001. Sonthofen, Germany, July 2001, LNCS Volume 2109, pp. 188-198. (AR 24%) (equal contribution of all authors)

6. 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. (AR 28%).

7. Tsvi Kuflik, Bracha Shapira, Yuval Elovici and Adlai Masciach, 2003. Privacy Preservation Improvement by Learning Optimal Profile Generation Rate. UM 2003, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2003, LNCS Volume 2702, pp. 168-177 (AR 24.5%).

8. 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. (AR 62%)

9. 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, pp. 356-363.

10. Paolo Bresciani, Loris Penserini, Paolo Busetta, Tsvi Kuflik, Agent Patterns for Ambient Intelligence - 23th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004), Shanghai, China, 2004, November 2004. Springer-Verlag, LNCS Volume 3288, pp. 682-695. (AR 20%)

11. 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. (AR 34%).

12. 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. LNCS Volume 3538, pp. 236-240 (AR 23%).

13. Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik and Francesco Ricci, 2005. P2P Case Retrieval with an Unspecified Ontology. In proceedings of ICCBR 2005, 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 23-26 August 2005, Chicago, IL, USA, LNCS Volume 3620, pp. 91-105. (AR 25%).

14. Ya'acov Kahanov, Nadav Kashtan, #Shahar Katz, Tsvi Kuflik, #Ilenia Graziola, Cesare Rocchi, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro. Preparing Personalized Multimedia Presentation for a Mobile Museum Visitors' Guide: a methodological Approach. Proceedings of Museums and the Web 2006, March 22-25, 2006. Albuquerque, New Mexico, (14 pages). (Tsvi Kuflik lead the work)

15. 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), LNCS Volume 4018, pp. 21-30, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006. (AR 18%) – Best Paper Award.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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. (AR 34%).

20. Jörg Müller, Antonio Krüger and Tsvi Kuflik, Adaptation of Public Displays, In proceedings of 11th International Conference, UM 2007 Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. LNAI Volume 4511, pp. 395-399 (AR 38%). (equal contribution of all authors)

21. 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. LNAI Volume 4511, pp. 238-246 (AR 20%)

22. 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. LNAI Volume 4511, pp 355-359. (AR 38%).

23. Shlomo Berkovsky, 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. (AR 46%).

24. Shlomo Berkovsky, #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. (AR 46%).

25. Yosi Ben Asher, Shlomo Berkovsky, Paolo Busetta, #Yaniv Eytani, #Sadek Jbara and Tsvi Kuflik. Adaptive Retrieval of Semi-Structured Data, Adaptive Hypertext and Adaptive Hypermedia (AH&H) 2008. LNCS Volume 5149, pp. 32-41. (AR 31%).

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

27. Dim, E. and Kuflik, T. 2010. Social signal processing: detecting small group interaction in leisure activity. In Proceeding of the 14th international Conference on intelligent User interfaces (Hong Kong, China, February 07 - 10, 2010). IUI '10. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 309-312. (AR 44%).

28. Hadar, I., Kuflik, T., Perini, A., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Ricca, F., and Susi, A. 2010. An empirical study of requirements model understanding: Use Case vs. Tropos models. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Sierre, Switzerland, March 22 - 26, 2010). SAC '10. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 2324-2329.

29. A.J. Wecker, T. Kuflik and O. Stock. Group navigation with handled mobile museum guides. Museum and the Web 2011, April 2011, Philadelphia, PA, USA. http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/group_navigation_with_handheld_mobile_museum_g

30. T. Kuflik, E. Dim, J. Lanir, A.J. Wecker, M. Corra, M. Zancanaro and O. Stock. Indoor Positioning: Challenges and Solutions for Indoor Cultural Heritage Sites (poster). Proceedings of IUI 2011, Feb. 13th-16th 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA. pp. 375-378. (AR ~40%).

31. Alan J. Wecker, Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock (2011) Pathlight: Supporting navigation of small groups in the museum context. proceedings of the 13th International conference on human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 569-574, (AR 23%).

32. Inna Belinky, Joel Lanir and Tsvi Kuflik. Using Handheld Devices and Situated Displays for Collaborative Planning of a Museum Visit. In Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 19, (6 pages).

33. Alan J. Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik Joel Lanir, and Oliviero Stock. Evaluating Mobile Projectors as a Shared Display Option for Small Groups (poster). In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '12) , May 5-10, 2012, Austin, TX, pp. 2543-2548, (48% acceptance rate).

34. Amit Tiroshi and Tsvi Kuflik. Domain Ranking For Cross Domain Collaborative Filtering. In proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012), LNCS Volume 7379, 2012, pp. 328-333, (AR 29%).

35. Tsvi Kuflik, Alan Wecker, Federica Cena and Cristina Gena. Evaluating rating scales personality. In proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012), LNCS Volume 7379, 2012, 310-315 (AR 29%).

36. Tsvi Kuflik, Meir Tahan and Efrat Yuval. The Factors that Lead to Unidentified Risks in Software-intensive Projects. In proceedings of INCOSE 2012, Volume 22, Issue 1 of INCOSE International Symposium, 1055-1068, July 9-12, 2012, Rome, Italy. (equal contribution of all authors)

37. David Ben Lulu and Tsvi Kuflik. Functionality-Based Clustering using Short Textual Description: Helping Users to Find Apps Installed on their Mobile Device. In proceedings of the 2013 International conference on intelligent user interfaces (IUI 2013), March 19-22, 2013, Santa Monica, CA, USA, pp. 297-306, (AR 22%).

38. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik Early Detection of Pairs of Visitors by Using a Museum Triage. Selected papers from Museums and the Web 2013, pp. 113-124.

39. Tsvi Kuflik, Alan Wecker, Joel Lanir, Orit Mogilevsky, Yael Kali, Emma Maayan, Maria Korman, Tamar Weiss, Einat Amber and Ofra Rimon. A different kind of experience: Using a smart mobile guide for education and aging research at the Hecht museum. Museums and the Web 2013 (8 pages).

40. Amit Tiroshi, Tsvi Kuflik and Shlomo Berkovsky. Inform or Flood: Estimating When Retweets Duplicate. In proceedings of UMAP 2013, Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013, LNCS Volume 7899, pp 267-273. (AR 30%).

41. Yael Kali, Ornit Sagy, Orit Mogilevsky, and Tsvi Kuflik. Harnessing Technology for Integrating Multiple Learning Environments in Undergraduate Art Education. The 15th biennial conference for research on learning and education. Munich, Germany, 27th -31st August 2013.

42. Danial-Saad, Alexandra; Kuflik, Tsvi; Weiss, Patrice L; Schreuer, Naomi. OSCAR - Clinical Decision Support System for Prescription of Assistive Technology to People with Disabilities. AAATE 2013, Algrave, Portugal, 19-22 Sept. 2013 (7 pages), (AR 65%).

43. Amit Tiroshi, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Terence Chen, Tsvi Kuflik. Cross Social Networks Interests Predictions Based on Graph Features. Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems (RecSys 2013), Hong-Kong, China, Oct. 12-16, 319-322 (AR 28.75%)

44. Amit Tiroshi, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, David Vallet, Terence Chen, Tsvi Kuflik. Improving Business Rating Predictions Using Graph Based Features. In: Proceedings of IUI 2014, Haifa, Israel, 24-27 Feb. 2014. pp. 17-26 (AR 24%).

45. Alan Wecker, Einat Minkov, Osnat Mokryn, Joel Lanir and Tsvi Kuflik. Visualizing Sentiment: Do You See What I Mean? (demo) In: IUI 2014 Companion, Haifa, Israel, 24-27 Feb. 2014. pp. 37.

46. T. Kuflik, O. Rokeah and S. Salman, The Treasure Hunt Game Generator – a system and its application at the Hecht Museum. In Museums and the Web 2014, N. Proctor & R. Cherry (eds). Silver Spring, MD: Museums and the Web. Published January 15, 2014. Consulted July 30, 2014. http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-treasure-hunt-game-generator-a-system-and-its-application-at-the-hecht-museum/

47. Amit Tiroshi, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, David Vallet and Tsvi Kuflik. Graph-Based Recommendations: Make the Most Out of Social Data. Proceedings of UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, LNCS volume 8538, pp. 447-458 (AR 29%).

48. Joel Lanir, Peter Bak and Tsvi Kuflik. Visualizing Proximity-Based Spatiotemporal Behavior of Museum Visitors using Tangram Diagrams, EuroVis 2014, June 9-13, 2014, Swansea, Wales. (see also D35)

49. Alan Wecker, Einat Minkov, Osnat Mokryn, Joel Lanir and Tsvi Kuflik. “Semantize: visualizing the sentiment of individual documents” (demo). AVI 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Como (Italy) May 27-30, 2014.

50. Korman, M, Kizony, R, Hochhauser, M, Kuflik, T, #Wecker, AJ, and Weiss, PL (2014), Spatial working memory performance in real museum environment versus computer simulation: a comparison between healthy elderly and young adults, Proc. 10th Intl Conf. on Disability, Virtual Reality and Assoc. Technologies, PM Sharkey, L Pareto, J Broeren, M Rydmark (Eds), pp. 249-255, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2-4 Sept. 2014.

51. Kuflik, T., Mumblat, Y., & Dim, E. (2015, May). Enabling mobile user modeling: infrastructure for personalization in ubiquitous computing. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (pp. 48-51). IEEE Press.‏. (AR 19%)

52. Tsvi Kuflik, Joel Lanir, Natalia Vainstein. Towards Using Mobile, Head-Worn Displays in Cultural Heritage: Requirements and Research Agenda. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 327-331). (AR 25%) (equal contribution of all authors)

53. Veronika Bogina, Tsvi Kuflik, Osnat Mokryn. Learning Item Temporal Dynamics for Predicting Buying Sessions. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 251-255). ACM. (AR 25%)

54. Dayan, A., Mokryn, O., & Kuflik, T. (2015, May). A Two-Iteration Clustering Method to Reveal Unique and Hidden Characteristics of Items Based on Text Reviews. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 637-642). ACM. (AR 14.1%)

55. Moayad Mokatren, Tsvi Kuflik and Ilan Shimshoni Exploring the potential contribution of mobile eye-tracking technology in enhancing the museum visit experience (poster). Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2016. 330-331.

56. Kuflik, T., Variat, Y., Dim, E., & Mumblat, Y. (2016, September). Info-Bead group modeling in a mobile scenario. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 682-689).

57. Evgenia Wasserman Pritsker, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov. (2017) Assessing the Contribution of Twitter's Textual Information to Graph-based Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 511-516.

58. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik, Oliviero Stock. (2017) AMuse: Connecting Indoor and Outdoor Cultural Heritage Experiences. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, pp. 153-156.

59. J. Sheidin, J. Lanir, P. Bak, and T. Kuflik. Time-Ray Maps: Visualization of spatial and temporal evolution, Eurovis 2017, Eurographics Proceedings 2017 The Eurographics Association.

60. Amal, S., Kuflik, T. and Minkov, E. Harvesting entity-relation social networks from the Web: potential and challenges (extended abstract), UMAP’17, July 9-12, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia.

61. Y Danone, T Kuflik, O Mokryn, (2018). Visualizing Reviews Summaries as a Tool for Restaurants Recommendation .23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Tokyo, Japan, arch 7-11 2013. (pp. 607-616).

Minor and Local Conferences and Workshops

Published

62. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

63. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

64. Kuflik,T. Marelly, R. Telyas A., Kudish, J., Rodnizky, J.,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. (equal contribution of all authors)

65. 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.

66. Goren-Bar, D., Kuflik, T., Lavie, D., 2000. 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. (Acceptance Rate – AR 32%). (equal contribution of all authors)

67. 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.

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

69. 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.

70. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

71. Shlomit Morad and Tsvi Kuflik., 2004. OSS Reuse at Orbotech – An Industrial Experience. Israeli conference on Software, Engineering and Management ICSEM04, Netanya Academic College, June 28th2004,. (equal contribution of all authors)

72. 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.

73. 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.

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

75. 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. (6 pages)

76. 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, pp 37-46.

77. 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, pp. 110-117. (equal contribution of all authors)

78. 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, Greec, pp. 195-204.

79. Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger and Tsvi Kuflik, 2005. Seamless Combination of Shared and Personalized Information Presentation to Groups of Visitors in Active Museums – Research Agenda, proceedings of ABIS 2005 - 13th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems, pp 8-10. (equal contribution of all authors)

80. 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, pp. 75-83.

81. Shlomo Berkovsky, Paolo Busetta, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, 2005. Collaborative Filtering over Distributed Environment. Workshop on Decentralized Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling, in conjunction with UM 2005, 25 July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, (10 pages).

82. Charles Callaway and Tsvi Kuflik, 2005. Using Domain Ontology to Mediate between a User Model and Domain Applications. Workshop on Personalized Information Access, in conjunction with UM 2005, 24 July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. pp. 236 – 240. (equal contribution of all authors)

83. 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, (11 pages).

84. 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. LNCS Volume 3814, pp. 215–219.

85. Nuaman Asbeh, Mor Peleg, Tsvika Kuflik and Mitchell Schertz. Creating Consistent Diagnoses List for Developmental Disorders Using UMLS. Proceedings of NGITS 2006, LNCS Volume 4032, pp 333-336, Shefayeem, Israel, July 2006. (AR 21.5%)

86. 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, pp. 6-13.

87. 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, (4 pages).

88. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

89. 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. (equal contribution of all authors)

90. 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, (5 pages). (equal contribution of all authors)

91. 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.

92. 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, pp. 35-45.

93. 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, (6 pages).

94. 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, (5 pages).

95. 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.

96. 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.

97. 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.

98. 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, pp. 127-135.

99. 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, pp. 104-115. (equal contribution of all authors)

100. 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.

101. 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.

102. 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.

103. 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), (5 pages).

104. 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).

105. E. Kantorowitz, T. Kuflik and A. Raginsky. “Empirical Estimation of Code Inspection Team Performance”. The 3rd Quality conference in the Galil, Karmiel, Israel, 1st June, 2010. (equal contribution of all authors)

106. Daniel Brem, #Kurt Gubi, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, Tsvi Kuflik, #Joseph Michaels, and Rainer Wasinger. Personalized Cultural Heritage GeoNotes. Workshop on Pervasive Personalization, Helsinki, Finland, May 17th 2010. pp. 1-9.

107. Kurt Gubi, Rainer Wasinger, Michael Fry, Judy Kay, Tsvi Kuflik, Robert Kummerfeld. Towards a Generic Platform for Indoor Localization Using Existing Infrastructure and Symbolic Maps. Workshop on Architectures and building blocks of web-based user-adaptive systems, June 21st, 2010, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, (6 pages).

108. Rainer Wasinger, Anthony Collins, Michael Fry, Judy Kay, Tsvi Kuflik, Robert Kummerfeld. Towards Life-long Personalization Across Multiple Devices: The Case of Personal Career Management. Workshop on Pervasive User Modelling and Personalization, June 22nd, 2010, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. pp. 48.

109. Tsvi Kuflik, Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld. Lifelong Personalized Museum Experiences. Workshop on Pervasive User Modelling and Personalization, June 22nd, 2010, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. pp. 9-16.

110. Lanir J., Wecker A. J., Kuflik T., Dim E., Beja I., Belinky I., Gordon I., Kashtan N., Mogilevsky O., Stock O. And Zancanaro M (2010). From a research prototype to a deployed system: the case of the Hecht museum visitor’s guide. MCIS 2010 – The 5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems. Tel Aviv, Israel, 12th-14th September 2010, paper 53, (12 pages).

111. E. D’Avanzo, T. Kuflik and A. Elia Online Advertising Using Linguistic Knowledge. In Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations proceedings of itAIS 2010. Napoli, Italy, October 2010, pp. 143-150.

112. I. Beja, T. Kuflik and J. Lanir. Applying Interrupt Management Concepts in the Museum. Workshop on Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH) 2011. Co-located with IUI 2011, Feb. 13th, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA, (4 pages).

113. I. Belinki, T. Kuflik and J. Lanir. Group Interaction with Situated Displays in Cultural Heritage. Workshop on Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH) 2011. Co-located with IUI 2011, Feb. 13th, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA, (4 pages).

114. E. Dim, J. Lanir, T. Kuflik, O. Stock, M. Corra. Indoor Positioning: Group Mutual Positioning. Workshop on Location Awareness for Mixed and Dual Reality (LMDa) 2011. Co-located with IUI 2011, Feb. 13th, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA, (4 pages).

115. A.J. Wecker, J. Lanir and T. Kuflik. Pathlight: Group Navigation in a Museum using a Personal Projector. CHI 2011 Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection (MP² 2011). May 8th, 2011, Vancouver, BC, (4 pages).

116. Amit Tiroshi, Tsvi Kuflik, Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld. Recommender Systems and the Social Web. Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation (AUM ’11), Girona, Spain, July 15th, 2011, (10 pages).

117. Orit Mogilevsky, Yishai Mor, Tsvi Kuflik. A Design Study of Integrating Mobile Learning in a Museum into a Higher Education Curriculum. The 9th Annual MEITAL National Conference. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, June 28th, 2011.

118. Orit Mogilevsky, Yishai Mor, Tsvi Kuflik. Integrating Mobile Learning in a Museum into a Higher Education Curriculum. Workshop on Exploring Design Methods for Mobile Learning, co-located with Mobile HCI 2011.

119. Efrat Yuval, Meir Tahan, Tsvi Kuflik. The main factors that lead to unidentified risks in software-intensive projects. The Seventh ORT Braude College Interdisciplinary Research Conference.

120. Efrat Yuval, Meir Tahan, Tsvi Kuflik Causes for risk identification failures in projects. The 11th national conference of the Israeli Association for Quality.

121. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik Assessment of Broader Attention-focus Perspective. Second International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Location Awareness For Mixed and Dual Reality (LAMDa), February 14th 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Co-Located with IUI 2012, (4 pages).

122. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik, User Models Sharing and Reusability: A Component-based Approach. AUM workshop, July 17th, 2012, Co-located with UMAP 2012, Montreal, CA, (7 pages).

123. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik, Early Detection of Museum Visitors Identities by Using a Museum Triage. PATCH workshop, July 17th, 2012, Co-located with UMAP 2012, Montreal, CA, (10 pages).

124. Rainer Wasinger, Kurt Gubi, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, Michael Fry and Tsvi Kuflik. A Generic Platform to support Symbolic Map Use in Indoor Environments. 3rd International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 13-15th November, 2012, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-10.

125. Kuflik, T., Lanir, J., Dim, E., Wecker, A., Corra, M., Zancanaro, M., & Stock, O. (2012, November). Indoor positioning in cultural heritage: Challenges and a solution. In Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), 2012 IEEE 27th Convention of (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

126. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik Early Detection of Pairs of Visitors by Using a Museum Triage. Selected papers from Museums and the Web 2013, pp. 113-124.

127. Alan J.Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik Oliviero Stock. Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience outside the Museum Connecting the outside world to the museum experience, PATCH workshop, co-located with UMAP 2013, Rome, Italy, June 14th 2013. http://www.l3s.de/~herder/temp/ceur/umap2013/patch2013_preface.pdf

128. Liliana Ardissono, Lora Aroyo, Luciana Bordoni, Judy Kay and Tsvi Kuflik. PATCH 2013: Personal Access to Cultural Heritage. PATCH workshop, co-located with UMAP 2013, Rome, Italy, June 14th 2013. http://www.l3s.de/~herder/temp/ceur/umap2013/patch2013_paper_3.pdf (equal contribution of all authors)

129. Joel Lanir, #Alan Wecker and Tsvi Kuflik. Supporting Collaborative Use of a Mobile Museum Guide for Small Groups of Visitors. Designing Mobile Face-to-Face Group Interactions. First International Workshop in conjunction with ECSCW '13, Cyprus, Greece, September 21-25, 2013.

130. Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik, #Idan Zolantz, #Urit Lanzet, Personalized Video Summary of a Museum Visit, AI*CHI workshop, Torino, Italy, December 4th 2013(6 pages).

131. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock, Inside-Outside: Opportunities in the total cultural heritage experience, AI*CH 2014 workshop, co-located with the XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, 12 December 2014.

132. Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov and #Keren Kahanov, Graph-based Recommendation in the Museum AI*CH 2014 workshop, co-located with the XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, 12 December 2014.

133. Carmelo Ardito, Marco De-Gemis, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesca Maria Costabile, and Matera. A Composition Platform that Supports Cultural Heritage Teaching by integrating Recommender Systems Technology. AI*CH 2014 workshop, co-located with the XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, 12 December 2014. (equal contribution of all authors)

134. Alan Wecker and Tsvi Kuflik Strategies for Coping with Multiple Narratives. Proceedings of PATCH 2015, the 8th workshop on personal access to cultural heritage, co-located with IUI 2015. Atlanta GA, USA. 29 March 2015 (3 pages).

135. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock. AMuse – An Initial Plan to Associate Museum Visits to Outdoor Cultural Heritage Activities. Proceedings of PATCH 2015, the 8th workshop on personal access to cultural heritage, co-located with IUI 2015. Atlanta GA, USA. 29 March 2015 (5 pages).

136. Danial-Saad, A., Kuflik, T., Weiss, P. L., & Schreuer, N. (2014). Building an effective ontology for assistive technology. Studies in health technology and informatics, 217, 749-754.‏ 13th AAATE Conference. Budapest, Hungary. 9-12 September 2015.

137. Dayan, A., Mokryn, O., & Kuflik, T. (2015, May). A Two-Iteration Clustering Method to Reveal Unique and Hidden Characteristics of Items Based on Text Reviews. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 637-642). ACM.‏ (KET 2015, 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Text, May 19th, Firenze, Italy).

138. Antonino Lo Bue, Alan J. Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik, Alberto Machì, Oliviero Stock. Providing Personalized Cultural Heritage Information for the Smart Region - A Proposed methodology. PEGOV 2015 workshop, June 29th, 2015, Dublin, Ireland (7 pages).

139. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock Where To Go And How To Get There: Guidelines For Indoor Landmark-Based Navigation In A Museum Context. 2015, August). In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 789-796), 24-27 August 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark (Poster, AR 67%).

140. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock. The Next Thing- Connecting the museum visit. TourS15 workshop, 20 September 2015, Vienna, Austria.

141. Moayad Mokatren and Tsvi Kuflik. Exploring the potential contribution of mobile eye-tracking technology in enhancing the museum visit experience. In proceedings of the workshop on Internet of Wearable Things – IoWT 2016 – co-located with IUI 2016 (8 pages).

142. Moayad Mokatren Tsvi Kuflik and Ilan Shimshoni Exploring the potential contribution of mobile eye-tracking technology in enhancing the museum visit experience. Accepted to the workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Cultural Heritages – AVI-CH 2016 – co-located with AVI 2016 (8 pages).

143. Joel Lanir and Tsvi Kuflik. Proxemic-Based Collocated Interactions at the Museum Environment workshop on Proxemic mobile collocated interaction, co-located with CHI 2016.

144. Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik, Nisan Yavin, Kate Leiderman and Michael Segal. Visualizing Museum Visitors’ Behavior. In proceedings of the workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Cultural Heritages – AVI-CH 2016 – co-located with AVI 2016 (4 pages).

145. Alan Wecker, Tsvi Kuflik and Oliviero Stock. CHEST: Cultural Heritage Experience Scrapbook Tool. In proceeding of the workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Cultural Heritages – AVI-CH 2016 – co-located with AVI 2016 (4 pages).

146. Wecker, A. J., Kuflik, T., & Stock, O. (2016, September). Dynamic personalization based on mobile behavior: from personality to personalization: a blueprint. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 978-983). ACM.

147. Mokatren, M., Kuflik, T., & Shimshoni, I. (2016, September). A novel image based positioning technique using mobile eye tracker for a museum visit. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 984-991). ACM.

148. Mokatren, M., Kuflik, T., & Shimshoni, I. Listen to What You Look at: Combining an Audio Guide with a Mobile Eye Tracker on the Go, AI*CH 2016 (Genova, Italia).

149. Bogina, V., Kuflik, T. Incorporating Dwell Time in Session-Based Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks. In proceedings of the Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Recommender Systems, Co-located with RecSys 2017, August 31st 2017, Como, Italy.

Other Scientific Publications

  1. Kuflik, A. Albertini, P. Busetta, C. Rocchi, O. Stock, M. Zancanaro An Agent-Based Architecture for Museum Visitor’s Guide Systems – IFITT’s Global Travel & Tourism Technology and eBusiness Forum (ENTER 2006), January 2006, Lausanne, CH. Abstract in Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2006, eds. Hitz, Sigala, and Murphy, page 57, Springer.
  2. Nuaman Asbeh, Mor Peleg, Tsvi Kuflik, Mitchell Schertz, The development of Ontology based Methodology for Automatic Identification of Developmental Disorders using Clustering, The Second Annual Israeli Conference on Medical Informatics, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 4, 2007. Best student paper award.
  3. Orit Mogilevsky, Ofra Rimon, Einat Amber-Armon, Joel Lanir and Tsvi Kuflik, (2012). A different kind of learning: Using a smart mobile guide in educational activities for youths at the Hecht museum accepted as a poster to the CHASE conference.
  4. Kurt Gubi, Rainer Wasinger, Michael Fry, Judy Kay, Tsvi Kuflik, Bob Kummerfeld, (2011). Roughmaps: A Generic Platform to Support Symbolic Map Use in Indoor Environments. Technical report 683 School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
  5. Mogilevsky Orit, Yael Kali, Tsvika Kuflik, Ornit Sagy. Accepted to Chase conference 2013, Harnessing Technology for Integrating Multiple Learning Environments: The Case of an Art Analysis Course. )A candidate for best student paper award, 8 pages, Hebrew), 19-20, Open University, Ranana, Israel.
  6. Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov and Keren Kahanov. Graph-based Recommendation in the Museum. International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems 2014 September 18-19 2014, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  7. Itay Shoor, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov, Susan M. Grant-Muller, Ayelet Gal-Tzur and Silvio Nocera, Extracting Social Media data for the use of transportation stakeholders. Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL 2014) University of Haifa, 7 September, 2014.
  8. Gal-Tzur, S. M. Grant-Muller, T. Kuflik, E. Minkov, I. Shoor, S. Nocera. Data Mining and Social Network Analysis for Transportation Research. 2014 XVI Riunione Scientifica della Società Italiana di Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica. 8-10 Ocober, Firenze, Italy.
  9. Tiroshi, A., Kuflik, T., Berkovsky, S., & Kaafar, M. A. (2017). Graph Based Recommendations: From Data Representation to Feature Extraction and Application. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01250.

Other Publications

  1. Tsvi Kuflik e Ernesto D’Avanzo All’Università di Haifa si può visitare un museo guidati da un cicerone informatico I gusti personali racchiusi in un chip. L’osservatore Romano, Edizione quotidiana 23 agosto 2008. (Italian).
  2. Ernesto D’Avanzo e Tsvi Kuflik Com’è difficile nuotare nel mare della rete. L’osservatore Romano, 22 July 2009, p.5. (Italian).
  3. Ernesto D’Avanzo e Tsvi Kuflik Intelligenze artificiali per un turista neanche troppo future. L’osservatore Romano, 25-26 July 2011, p.5. (Italian).
  4. Ernesto D’Avanzo, Universidad de Trento y Tsvi Kuflik, Universidad de Haifa Inteligencias artificiales para el turista no tan del futuro. L’osservatore Romano, Ciudad del Vaticano, 4 de agosto de 2011 (Spanish).
  5. Ernesto D’Avanzo, University of Trento and Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa. Artificial intelligence for the tourist is not far away. Vatican City, 04 Aug 2011.
  6. Tsvi Kuflik, L’informatica in campagna, Internet ed i sistemi di supporto alle decisioni in agricolturaIASMA Notizie, March 2013 (Italian).
  7. Twitter fight traffic congestions (article in a newspaper in Hebrew about a joint international research about text mining for transportation project - : http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3611530,00.html.
  8. Ayelet Gal-Zur, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov, Itay Shoor, Susan Grant-Miller and Silvio Nocera. Can we learn from social media content about transport systems users’ needs? Planning, V 12(2), 2015 (Hebrew).

Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field

Patents:

  1. Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik. User Models Sharing and Reusability: A Component-Based Approach. US Provisional Patent Application No. 61/656,548 Filed on 07 June 2012, National USA #13/911,216 filed on 06 June 2013 (see submitted article 5).
  2. David Ben Lulu and Tsvi Kuflik. System and Methods for Categorization of Software Applications. US Provisional Patent Application No. 61/865,148 Filed on 13 August 2013, (see submitted article 6 and conference paper 101).