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Overview

Avi Pfeffer is affiliated with Charles River Laboratories (Netherlands) in the Netherlands and specializes in the field of Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their research encompasses various subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Information Systems, and Information Systems and Management.

Their work prominently features topics such as AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Safety Warnings and Signage, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Software Engineering Research, Artificial Intelligence in Games, and Scientific Computing and Data Management.

The scientist has authored several papers published in notable venues, including:

  • "Unifying AI Algorithms with Probabilistic Programming using Implicitly Defined Representations" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Divergence in situation awareness and workload" (2024), Ergonomics
  • "Coltrane: A domain-independent system for characterizing and planning in novel situations" (2025), Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Avi Pfeffer include:

  • Michael Harradon
  • Mica R. Endsley
  • Jordan B. Dixon
  • Tristan Endsley
  • David Jamrog

The primary venues for their published work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Ergonomics
  • Artificial Intelligence

Best Publications

  • Learning Probabilistic Relational Models

    Nir Friedman;Lise Getoor;Daphne Koller;Avi Pfeffer

  • Object-oriented Bayesian networks

    Daphne Koller;Avi Pfeffer

  • Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems

    Joseph M. Hellerstein;Jeffrey F. Naughton;Avi Pfeffer

  • Mariposa: a wide-area distributed database system

    Michael Stonebraker;Paul M. Aoki;Witold Litwin;Avi Pfeffer

  • Probabilistic frame-based systems

    Daphne Koller;Avi Pfeffer

  • P-CLASSIC: a tractable probablistic description logic

    Daphne Koller;Alon Levy;Avi Pfeffer

  • Method and apparatus for learning probabilistic relational models having attribute and link uncertainty and for performing selectivity estimation using probabilistic relational models

    Daphne Koller;Lise Getoor;Avi Pfeffer;Nir Friedman

  • An economic paradigm for query processing and data migration in Mariposa

    M. Stonebraker;R. Devine;M. Kornacker;W. Litwin

  • Representations and solutions for game-theoretic problems

    Daphne Koller;Avi Pfeffer

  • Stochastic lambda calculus and monads of probability distributions

    Norman Ramsey;Avi Pfeffer

  • An Intelligent Personal Assistant for Task and Time Management

    Karen L. Myers;Pauline Berry;Jim Blythe;Ken Conley

  • IBAL: a probabilistic rational programming language

    Avi Pfeffer

  • Automatic genome-wide reconstruction of phylogenetic gene trees

    Ilan Wapinski;Avi Pfeffer;Nir Friedman;Aviv Regev

  • Effective Bayesian inference for stochastic programs

    Daphne Koller;David McAllester;Avi Pfeffer

  • SPOOK: a system for probabilistic object-oriented knowledge representation

    Avi Pfeffer;Daphne Koller;Brian Milch;Ken T. Takusagawa

  • Loopy belief propagation as a basis for communication in sensor networks

    Christopher Crick;Avi Pfeffer

  • Practical Probabilistic Programming

    Avi Pfeffer

  • Learning probabilities for noisy first-order rules

    Daphne Roller;Avi Pfeffer

  • Agent decision-making in open mixed networks

    Ya'akov Gal;Barbara Grosz;Sarit Kraus;Avi Pfeffer

  • Factored particles for scalable monitoring

    Brenda Ng;Leonid Peshkin;Avi Pfeffer

  • Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

    Fabio Cozman;Avi Pfeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller insitro Inc.
Barbara J. Grosz
Barbara J. Grosz Harvard University
Nir Friedman
Nir Friedman Weizmann Institute of Science
Stuart M. Shieber
Stuart M. Shieber Harvard University
David C. Parkes
David C. Parkes Harvard University
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Lise Getoor
Lise Getoor University of California, Santa Cruz
Witold Litwin
Witold Litwin Paris Dauphine University

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