Lecturer

Dr. Priel Levy

דוא"ל
priel.levy@biu.ac.il
שעות קבלה
Upon advanced coordination
    קורות חיים

    Education

    Ph.D.

    Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

    Optimal Contest Design for Multi-Agent Systems

    Advisor: Prof. David Sarne

    2019
    M.Sc.

    Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

    Intelligent Advice Provisioning for Repeated Interaction

    Advisor: Prof. David Sarne

    2015
    B.Sc. Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University2011
    פרסומים

    Papers in conference proceedings

    1. Levy P. and Sarne D. (2016) Intelligent Advice Provisioning for Repeated Interaction. In proceedings of the the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 842-849. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v30i1.10058
    2. Levy P., Sarne D., Rochlin I. (2017), Contest Design with Uncertain Performance and Costly Participation, In proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 302-309. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/43
    3. Levy P., Sarne D. (2018) Understanting Over Participation in Simple Contests, In Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1571-1578. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v32i1.11508
    4. Levy P., Sarne D., Aumann Y. (2018) Tractable (Simple) Contests", In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 361-367. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/50
    5. Levy P., Sarne D., Aumann Y. (2019) Temporal Information Design in Contests, In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 428-434. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/61
    6. Levy P., Sarne D., Habani M. (2020) Simple Contest Enhancers. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 463-469. https://doi.org/10.1109/WIIAT50758.2020.00069
    7. Levy P., Griffiths N. (2021) Convention Emergence with Congested Resources. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), 126–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82254-5_8
    8. Simon N., Levy P., Sarne D. (2022) Obtaining and Providing Partial Information in Binary Contests. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 191-198. https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT55865.2022.00035
    9. Avinadav T., Levy P. (2024) Commission-Rate vs. Fixed-Fee Contract in a Supply Chain of Mobile Apps Involving Risk. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(19), 1144-1149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.09.109

    Short Papers

    1. Levy P., (2018) Optimal Contest Design for Multi-Agent Systems, In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AAAI), 376-377 (Doctoal Consortium). https://doi.org/10.1145/3278721.3278789
    2. Levy P., Sarne P. and Aumann Y. (2019) Selective Information Disclosure in Contests, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2093-2095 (Extended Abstract). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3306127.3332021
    3. Habani M., Levy P., Sarne P. (2019) Contest Manipulation for Improved  performance, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2000-2002 (Extended Abstract). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3306127.3331990

    Chapters in Books

    1. Chernonog T., Levy P. (2025) Alternative Payment Strategies: Adapting to Change in The Mobile App Industry. In International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, to be published.

    Articles in Refereed Journals 

    1. Avinadav T., Levy P. (2022) Value of Information in a Mobile App Supply Chain under Hidden or Known Information Superiority. International Journal of Production Economics, 248, 108467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108467
    2. Chernonog T., Levy P. (2023) Co-creation of Mobile App Quality in a Two-Platform Supply Chain when Platforms are Asymmetric. European Journal of Operational Research, 308(1), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.11.019
    3. Levy P., Griffiths N. (2023) Convention Emergence with Congested Resources. SN Computer Science, 4(3), 282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-01697-1
    4. Avinadav T., Levy P. (2023) The Effect of an Uncertain Commission Rate on the Decisions of a Capital-Constrained Developer. Operations Research Perspectives, 11, 100288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orp.2023.100288
    5. Avinadav T., Levy P. (2024) Improving Efficiency in Supply Chains using Platform Financing. European Journal of Operational Research, 315(3), 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.01.015
    6. Levy P., Sarne D., Aumann Y. (2024) Tractable Binary Contests. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 12(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630109
    7. Levy P., Aumann Y., Sarne D. (2024) Contest Partitioning in Binary Contests. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 38(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-024-09637-w
    8. Simon N., Levy P., Sarne D. (2024) Costly Information Providing in Binary Contests. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 32(5), 1353-1357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10472-024-09953-7
    9. Avinadav T., Levy P. (2025) Contracting under Information Superiority in a Supply Chain of Subscription-Based Apps: a Comparative Analysis. Annals of Operations Research, 248, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05565-2
    10. Levy P. (2025) Can a Reviewing-Based Contract Coordinate a Supply Chain of Mobile Apps?. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2579136

    Papers presented at scientific conferences 

    1. Levy P., Sarne D., Rochlin I. Contest Design with Uncertain Performance and Costly Participation. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, May 21-22, 2017.
    2. Levy P., Sarne D., Rochlin I. Contest Design with Uncertain Performance and Costly Participation. The 15th Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June 11, 2017. (poster presentation)
    3. Levy P., Sarne D., Rochlin I. Contest Design with Uncertain Performance and Costly Participation. The IEEE International Conference on Agents, Beijing, China, July 6-9, 2017.
    4. Levy P., Sarne D. Understanding Over Participation in Simple Contests. The 32nd Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA, February 1-7, 2018.
    5. Levy P., Sarne D. Understanding Over Participation in Simple Contests. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Ben Gurion University, Israel, May 13-14, 2018.
    6. Levy P., Sarne D. Understanding Over Participation in Simple Contests. The Annual Symposium of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel, May 24, 2018. Best student poster award.
    7. Levy P., Sarne D. Understanding Over Participation in Simple Contests. The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018.
    8. Levy P., Sarne D., Aumann Y. Selective Information Disclosure in Contests. The 9th Annual Conference on Contests: Theory and Evidence, Norwich, UK, June 27-28, 2019.
    9. Levy P., Habani M., Sarne D. Contest Manipulation for Improved Performance. The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 December, 2020. (virtual conference)
    10. Levy P., Griffiths N. Convention Emergence with Congested Resources. The 18th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, 28-29 June, 2021. (virtual conference)
    11. Levy P., Chernonog T. The effect of market power structure on a two-platform supply chain when app-quality is co-created. The 31st European Conference on Operational Research and Management Science, Athens, Greece, 11-14 July, 2021. (virtual conference)
    12. Levy P., Avinadav T. Information superiority in a supply chain of apps. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Haifa, Israel, August 2-3, 2021.
    13. Chernonog T., Levy P. Two-platform supply chain with quality co-creation. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Haifa, Israel, August 2-3, 2021.
    14. Levy P., Chernonog T. The effect of market power structure on a two-platform supply chain when app-quality is co-created. The 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Seoul, Korea, August 22-27, 2021. (virtual conference)
    15. Levy P., Avinadav T. Supply chain of subscription-based apps. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, May 30-31, 2022.
    16. Levy P., Avinadav T. The effect of uncertain commission rate on the decisions of a capital-constrained developer. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 1-2, 2023.
    17. Avinadav T., Levy P. Platform financing as a means to improve supply chain efficiency. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 1-2, 2023.
    18. Levy P., Simon N., Sarne D. Obtaining and Providing Partial Information in Binary Contests. The 9th Annual Conference on Contests: Theory and Evidence, Reading, UK, June 22-23, 2023.
    19. Levy P., Avinadav T. Contracting under information superiority in supply chains of subscriptions-based apps. The 33rd Annual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society, Paris, France, July 18-20, 2023.
    20. Levy P., Avinadav T. Revenue-sharing contract vs. reviewing-based contract in a supply chain of mobile apps: A comparative analysis. The 23rd International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 14-18, 2024.
    21. Levy P., Avinadav T. Revenue-sharing vs. reviewing-based contract in a supply chain of mobile apps: A comparative analysis. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Be’er Sheva, Israel, May 27-28, 2024.
    22. Levy P., Chernonog T. First-party and third-party complementary apps: R&D investment, launching and M&A. The 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 30-July 3, 2024.
    23. Levy P., Avinadav T. Commission-Rate vs. Fixed-Fee Contract in a Supply Chain of Mobile Apps involving Risk. The 18th IFAC Symposiums on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Vienna, Austria, August 28-30, 2024.
    24. Levy P., Chernonog T. Alternative Payment Strategies: Adapting to Change in the Mobile App Industry. The 5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, UK. April 30-May 2, 2025.
    25. Levy P., Avinadav T. Payment Models in Mobile App Platforms. The Annual Operations Research Society of Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 5-6, 2025.
    26. Levy P., Chernonog T. Alternative Payment Strategies: Adapting to Change in The Mobile App Industry. The International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, Milano, Italy. September 1-4, 2025.
    פרסומים בהכנה

    Revised and Resubmitted

    1. Chernonog T., Levy P. First-party and third-party complementary apps: investment in research and development, launching and merger and acquisition. Under revision in Transportation Research Part E.

    Papers submitted to refereed journals

    1. Chernonog T., Levy P. Alternative Payment Strategies: Adapting to Change in the Mobile-App Industry. Submitted to International Journal of Production Economics on 29/9/2025.
    2. Kogan K., Levy P. Mass Customization vs. Mass Production: Competition Dynamics under Myopic and Farsighted Policies. Submitted to European Journal of Operational Research on 16/10/2025.
    קורסים

    Current Courses

    55-011   Introduction to Python Programming (2024-present)

    55-226   Decision Making in Technology Management (2020-present)

    55-059   Introduction to Web Programming (2020-present)
     

    Past Courses

    55-230    Research Seminar in Technology Management (2022-2023)

    55-921     Colloquim for Staff (2024-2025)

    55-061     Theoretical seminar: Advanced Topics in Technology Management (2020-2024)

    89-478     Seminar in Intelligent Systems (2019)

    89-231      Operating Systems (2017-2019)

    89-100     Head of the Computer Science Mentoring Program (2017-2018)

    89-110     Introduction to Computer Science (2016-2017)

     

    תחומי מחקר

    Research Areas

    • Supply Chain Management (game theory, contracts, coordination, supply chains of virtual products, platform selling)
    • Multi-Agent Systems (contest design, mechanism design, information design, game theory)
    • Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

    Last Updated Date : 18/01/2026