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Rica Gonen, Associate Professor

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The Open University of Israel Department of Management and Economics One University Road, P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Email:gonenr@openu.ac.il

I am a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at The Open University of Israel. Before joining the Open University, I was a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research Labs, and completed postdoctoral research at Bell Labs. I received my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from The Hebrew University.

My research interests lie in algorithmic mechanism design, fair division, and market design, broadly situated within AI, computational social choice and computational game theory. I am especially interested in addressing real-world challenges by developing theoretically grounded solutions with practical impact, such as online advertising, global supply chain markets, autonomous transportation systems, urban resource allocation and renewal, and digital financial instruments.

Please visit my personal web page for more details.

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Fair Allocation of Improvements: When Old Endowments Shape New Assignments
N. Klein-Elmalem; R. Gonen; E. Segal-Halevi, AAMAS 2026

Weighted Envy Freeness with Bounded Subsidies
N. Klein-Elmalem; R. Gonen; E. Segal-Halevi, AAMAS 2025

Deep Reinforcement Learning and Influenced Games
C. Brady; R. Gonen; G. Rabinovich, IEEE Access Journal 2024

Heuristics for Opinion Diffusion via Local Elections
R. Gonen; M. Koutecky; R. Menasheof; N. Talmon, SOFSEM 2023

Ascending-Price Mechanism for General Multi-Sided Markets
D. Gilor; R. Gonen; E. Segal-Halevi, AIJ 2023

Opinion Diffusion and Campaigning on Social Graphs
P. Faliszewski; R. Gonen; M. Koutecky; N. Talmon, IJCAI 2018

Fair Cake-Cutting Algorithms with Real Land-Value Data
I. Shtechman; R. Gonen; E. Segal-Halevi, AAMAS 2020

Strongly Budget Balanced Auctions for Multi-Sided Markets
D. Gilor; R. Gonen; E. Segal-Halevi, AAAI 2020, AIJ 2021

Towards Characterizing the Deterministic Combinatorial Constrained Efficient Space
R. Gonen; A. Lerner, ADT 2019

Multi-sided Advertising Markets: Dynamic Mechanisms and Incremental User Compensations
M. Feldman; G. Frim; R. Gonen, GameSec 2018

Removal and Threshold Pricing: Truthful Two-sided Markets with Multi-dimensional Participants
M. Feldman; R. Gonen, SAGT 2018

Databroker System: A New Online Advertising System That Keeps Users Engaged While Preserving Their Privacy
R. Gonen, AAMAS 2017

Incentive Compatible Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions: A Primal Dual Approach
N. Buchbinder; R. Gonen, Algorithmica 2015

Gaming Prediction Markets: Equilibrium Strategies with a Market Maker
Y. Chen; S. Dimitrov; R. Sami; D. Reeves; D. Pennock; R. Hanson; L. Fortnow; R. Gonen, Algorithmica 2010

Generalized Trade Reduction Mechanisms
M. Gonen; R. Gonen; E. Pavlov, EC 2007

Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Robust Mechanisms for Rational Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation
I. Abraham; D. Dolev; R. Gonen; J. Halpern, PODC 2006

Incentive Compatible Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions
Y. Bartal; R. Gonen; N. Nisan, TARK 2003

Fair Division Algorithms, E. Segal-Halevi and R. Gonen

Electronic Auctions and Markets: Algoritmic Mechanism Design, R. Gonen

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  • System and Method Using Sampling for Scheduling Advertisements in Slots of Different Quality in an Online Auction with Budget and Time Constraints
    Patent No. 8682724 · Gonen Rica · Issued: March 25, 2014 · Granted
  • System and Method Using Sampling for Scheduling Advertisements in an Online Auction with Budget and Time Constraints
    Patent No. 8666813 · Gonen Rica; Pavlov Elan Y. · Issued: March 4, 2014 · Granted
  • Currency System to Reward Constructive Behavior
    Patent No. 8412608 · Gonen Rica · Issued: April 2, 2013 · Granted
  • System and Method Using Sampling for Allocating Web Pageg  Placements in Online Publishinof Content
    Patent No. 8001001 · Brady Colin; Gonen Rica · Issued: August 16, 2011 · Granted
  • System and Method for Payment over a Series of Time Periods in an Online Market with Budget and Time Constraints
    Patent No. 7996306 · Gonen Rica; Pavlov Elan Y. · Issued: August 9, 2011 · Granted
  • System and Method For Optimizing the Reserve Price and Allocation of Web Page Placements in an Online Keyword Auction Using Generalized Trade Reduction
    Patent No. 7860754 · Gonen Rica · Issued: December 28, 2010 · Granted
  • Method, System, or Apparatus for Implementing a Budget Balanced/Surplus Syndicated Sponsored Search Market
    Patent No. 20100198689 · Gonen Rica; Brady Colin · Filed: February 3, 2009 · Application
  • Method, System, or Apparatus for a Truthful Pricing Scheme for a Seller
    Patent No. 20100198688 · Gonen Rica; Vassilvitskii Sergei · Filed: February 3, 2009 · Application
  • Extended Generalized Second Price Auction for Sponsored Search with Reserve Prices
    Patent No. 20100125506 · Vassilvitskii Sergei; Brady Colin; Gonen Rica · Filed: November 24, 2008 · Application
  • Truthful Pricing Scheme for Sponsored Search with Reserve Prices
    Patent No. 20100131364 · Gonen Rica; Vassilvitskii Sergei · Filed: November 24, 2008 · Application
  • System and Method for Offering an Auction Bundle in an Online Advertising Auction
    Patent No. 20090248534 · Dasdan Ali; Gonen Rica · Filed: March 31, 2008 · Application
  • System and Method of Making Trading Markets Using Generalized Trade Reduction
    Patent No. 20090030830 · Gonen Rica; Gonen Mira; Pavlov Elan Y. · Filed: July 27, 2007 · Application
  • System and method for using sampling for scheduling advertisements in an online auction
     Patent No. 20080275775 · Gonen Rica; Pavlov Elan Y. · Filed: May 4, 2007 ·  Applicatio