{"id":40,"date":"2018-07-04T03:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gdnconference.org\/gdn2021\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:06:11","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gdnconference.org\/gdn2026\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sarit Kraus<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>

Professor of Computer Science
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel<\/p>

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Smarter Together? Assisting Humans in a World of Intelligent Agents<\/strong><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The rapid advancement of intelligent systems\u2014ranging from large language models (LLMs) to autonomous drones and robots\u2014has unlocked remarkable capabilities while introducing new challenges for human interaction and coordination. As these systems grow in autonomy and complexity, humans may find it increasingly difficult to collaborate effectively or maintain situational awareness.<\/p>

To address these challenges, intelligent advising agents can support decision-making and reduce cognitive load by providing guidance and explanations that help users assess when and how to act on AI-generated advice. Our overarching goal is to ensure that AI + Human > max(AI, Human)<\/strong>\u2014that is, the combined intelligence of humans and machines should surpass the performance of either working alone.<\/p>

This presentation explores the key challenges of human collaboration with intelligent systems and introduces methods that enable LLM-based agents to coordinate more effectively with people. These approaches aim to establish shared reference points for understanding, foster goal alignment, and promote adaptive interaction. Ultimately, we outline strategies for developing assisting agents that enhance human performance, trust, and satisfaction within human\u2013AI\u2013robot teams.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Sarit Kraus is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Artificial Intelligence research at Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems that integrate machine learning (including LLMs) with optimization, logic, and game theory. She develops agents capable of interacting and negotiating effectively with people and robots.<\/p>

She has received many honors, including the IJCAI Computers and Thought and Research Excellence Awards, ACM SIGART and Athena Lecturer Awards, the EMET Prize, and two IFAAMAS Influential Paper Awards. A Fellow of ACM, AAAI, and EurAI, she also received an ERC Advanced Grant and a commendation from Los Angeles city \u00a0for the ARMOR system.<\/p>

Kraus has published over 400 papers, co-authored five books, was IJCAI-2019 program chair and was elected as IJCAI-2027 conference chair.\u00a0 She is an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mi\u0142osz Kadzi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>

Assoc. Professor of Computer Science
Institute of Computing Science
Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland<\/p>

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When Rules Meet Plurality: From Rough Sets to Group Decision Aiding<\/strong><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The presentation will address the potential of the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) for group decision aiding. We will build on two real-world case studies from the energy sector that illustrate how the method can be adapted to different kinds of collective decision contexts. This perspective is particularly meaningful in Poland \u2013 the venue of this year\u2019s GDN conference, where rough set theory originated and where its dominance-based developments have opened an important line of research in preference learning, explanation, and recommendation under multiple criteria.<\/p>

The first case study concerns the assessment of energy technologies by a large international panel of experts representing different countries, backgrounds, and areas of competence. In such a setting, the central challenge is not only the multiplicity of criteria, but also the diversity and partiality of expertise: not every expert can credibly evaluate every option, and yet the final recommendation must be transparent and collectively meaningful. The presentation will show how DRSA can be extended to learn from partial judgments provided on a carefully selected reference set, how individual rule-based models can be preserved rather than averaged away, and how these models can be aggregated into an interpretable group recommendation that makes both consensus and disagreement visible.<\/p>

The second case study concerns the acceptance of wind energy technologies and examines how DRSA can support the analysis of evaluations expressed by a large group of stakeholders. Here, the problem is not to identify a single \u201cbest\u201d option, but to understand the structure of support, hesitation, and opposition in a socially sensitive decision context. The presentation will show how DRSA can be adapted to explain collective patterns of acceptance, reveal the main drivers of attitudes, and generate decision-relevant insights without sacrificing interpretability.<\/p>

Taken together, the two studies suggest that DRSA offers more than a classification tool for ordered decision problems. It provides a coherent framework for handling heterogeneous viewpoints, incomplete and unevenly distributed knowledge, and the need for explanation in collective settings. The broader argument of the presentation will be that DRSA is especially well-suited to group decision aiding whenever legitimacy depends not only on the quality of the recommendation, but also on the transparency of the path leading to it.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Mi\u0142osz Kadzi\u0144ski is an Associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology. He is the head of the Institute of Computing Science and the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems. He has been awarded scientific prizes by EURO, the International Society on MCDM, the INFORMS MCDM Section, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Science. He acts as the coordinator of the EURO Working Group on MCDA and president-elect of the INFORMS MCDM Section. His primary research interests include preference learning, robustness analysis, and strengthening the interfaces between MCDA and other sub-disciplines of algorithmic decision theory, such as interactive and evolutionary multiple objective optimization, data envelopment analysis, machine learning, and group decision. He has published more than 110 papers in premier international journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Decision Support Systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Sciences, and Information Fusion.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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2026 INFORMS GDN Section Award Winner<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nTBA during the opening session of GDN2026 conference\n
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