Research Interests

online reputation mechanisms, social networks, rational computation, multi-agent systems, simulation of complex systems.

Short Biography

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2007 - now:	- Software Engineer, Google, Zurich
2002 - 2007:	- PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab, EPFL, Switzerland
2001 - 2002:	- Graduate School in Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland
1996 - 2001:	- M.Sc., Computer Science Department, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Romania

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News

- awarded EPFL's Best Thesis Award, 2008

- awarded the IFAAMAS 2007 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. more details.  The slides of the AAMAS2008 invited talk are here.

Recent Publications

R. Jurca, F. Garcin, A. Talwar and B. Faltings. Reporting Incentives and Biases in Online Review Forums. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Volume 4(2), 2010.

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), volume 34, pp. 209-253, 2009

F. Garcin, B. Faltings and R. Jurca. Aggregating Reputation Feedback. Proceedings of the International Conference on Reputation, 18-20 March 2009.

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Truthful Opinions from the Crowds. ACM SIGEcom Exchanges, volume 7(2) June 2008.

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Incentives For Expressing Opinions in Online Polls. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC'08), pp. 119-128 Chicago, July 8-12 2008

R. Jurca. Truthful Reputation Mechanisms for Online Systems. PhD Thesis 3955, EPFL, 2007.