The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof Sarit Kraus, of Bar-Ilan University, Israel, is the recipient of the 2007 award. Prof Kraus is well known for her work on formal models of multi-agent systems. In particular, she pioneered the development of techniques for computational negotiation, automated coalition formation, cooperative search, and the logical formalization of cooperation and multi-agent shared plans. She has also made significant and lasting contributions to the wider field of AI, in areas such as search and non-monotonic reasoning.
In addition to her substantial research contributions, Prof Kraus has served the autonomous agents research community in many ways. She was PC chair of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS2000), and general co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2005). She has been an associate editor of the AAMAS journal since its founding, and an editor of AI Journal since 2000. Sarit is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.
