Education

I'm currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University. I'm a member of the
MultiAgent Systems Research Group and my advisor is Pınar Yolum. My research topic is 'Handling Exceptions in Multiagent
Systems'. Our research is currently supported by Turkish State Planning Organization (DPT) under the TAM Project,
number 2007K120610. Here is my Ph.D. Proposal. My anticipated graduation date is Fall 2012.

• M.S., Graduate Program in Systems & Control Engineering, Boğaziçi University, January 2007
  M.S. Thesis: Modeling, Learning, and Utilizing Trust In Multiagent Systems
  Advisor: Associate Professor Pınar Yolum
  


• B.S., Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, February 2004
  Graduation Project: ECG Arrhythmia Classification Using Hidden Markov Models
  Advisor: Professor Fikret Gürgen
  

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence


• Multiagent Systems


• Trust and Reputation Systems (ART Testbed)


• Autonomous Resource Allocation


• Commitment Protocols


• Exception Handling


• Computational Logic

Current Research Directions

• Formalization of Business Processes with Commitments


• Exception Detection and Classification


• Distributed Exception Diagnosis in Multi-Party Business Processes


• Model checking commitment protocols

Relevant Coursework

• Design and Analysis of Experiments


• Principles of Artificial Intelligence


• Mathematical Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence


• Multiagent Systems


• Autonomous Robots


• Quantum Algorithms


• Complexity Theory

International Journals

• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Monitoring Interactions: When is a Good Time to Step in? (Submitted)


• Özgür Kafalı and Paolo Torroni. A Distributed Reasoning Procedure for Monitoring Social Commitment Delegations (Submitted to the Journal of Logic and Computation)


• Özgür Kafalı and Paolo Torroni. Exception Diagnosis in Multiagent Contract Executions.
  In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, volume 64, number 1, pages 73-107, 2012

International Conferences and Workshops

• Özgür Kafalı, Francesca Toni and Paolo Torroni. Reasoning About Exceptions to Contracts
  In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XII), volume 6814 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 225-242, 2011


• Özgür Kafalı and Paolo Torroni. Social Commitment Delegation and Monitoring
  In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XII), volume 6814 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 171-189, 2011


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. A Distributed Treatment of Exceptions in Multiagent Contracts (Preliminary Report)
  In Ninth International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT), AAMAS, 2011


• Özgür Kafalı, Francesca Toni and Paolo Torroni. Collaborative Diagnosis of Exceptions to Contracts (Extended Abstract)
  In Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1167-1168, 2011


• Özgür Kafalı and Paolo Torroni. Diagnosing Commitments: Delegation Revisited (Extended Abstract)
  In Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1175-1176, 2011


• Özgür Kafalı, Federico Chesani and Paolo Torroni. What Happened to My Commitment? Exception Diagnosis Among Misalignment and Misbehavior
  In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XI), volume 6245 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 82-98, 2010


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Detecting Exceptions in Commitment Protocols: Discovering Hidden States
  In Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, volume 6039 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 112-127, 2010


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Adapting Reinforcement Learning For Trust: Effective Modeling in Dynamic Environments (Short Paper)
  In IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pages 383-386, 2009


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Action-Based Environment Modeling for Maintaining Trust
  In Trust in Agent Societies, volume 5396 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 81-98, 2008


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Improving Self-Organized Resource Allocation with Effective Communication
  In Seventh International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AAMAS, pages 7-18, 2008


• Özgür Kafalı and Pınar Yolum. Trust strategies for ART Testbed
  In Ninth International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies, AAMAS, pages 43-49, 2006

Local Workshops

• Özgür Kafalı. Effect of Consistent Exploration in Dynamic Environments: Does Trust Work in Competitions?
  In First Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW10), İstanbul, 2010


• Özgür Kafalı. Classifying Exceptions in Agent-Based Protocols: A Thin Line Between Violation and Opportunity
  In First Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW10), İstanbul, 2010

Awards

• Third place in the Second Agent Reputation and Trust Competition with our agent named Blizzard, 2007


• Third place in the First Agent Reputation and Trust Competition with our agent named Frost, 2006

Academic & Professional Experience

• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Project Scholar, September 2011 to ...


• DEIS, University of Bologna, Visiting Researcher, March 2010 to June 2010


• Turkish State Planning Organization, Project Scholar, February 2009 to ...


• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Project Scholar, June 2008 to June 2010


• Telenity, İstanbul, Software Engineer, November 2006 to February 2008


• Yapı Kredi Sigorta, İstanbul, Senior Developer, April 2004 to October 2006

Reviews

• Reviewer for the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2012)


• Program committee member of the 2nd Computer Science Student Workshop, İstanbul (CSW 2011)


• Reviewer for the 12th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN 2011)


• Reviewer for the 3rd International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems (LADS 2010)


• Reviewer for the 11th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN 2010)


• Reviewer for the 9th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2010)


• Program committee member of the 1st Computer Science Student Workshop, İstanbul (CSW 2010)


• Reviewer for the 7th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2009)


• Reviewer for the 2nd International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems (LADS 2009)


• Reviewer for the IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009)


• Reviewer for the 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and
  Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 07)

Computer Skills

• Programming: Prolog, C++, Java, HTML


• Databases: MySql, DB2, Oracle, Postgresql


• Application Servers: Tomcat, Glassfish


• Applications: Eclipse, Netbeans, SVN, Latex


• Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows

Interests

• eSports


• RC Helicopters


• Electric Guitars
  
  
  • Current favourite song: "The Forgotten Part 2" by Joe Satriani
  
  
  • Current favourite solo: "Coming Home" by Adrian Smith