(2024) M. Davoudzade, C. Barber, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Enhancing Network Simulation Accuracy through Calibration and Model Optimization”, to appear in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Models for Simulations (M4S), 3 Dec 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.
(2024) C. Davies, B. Esfandiari, “Event Sourcing in Jason: Event-Driven State Reconstruction for BDI Agents”, to appear in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA 2024), 4-6 December 2024, Wollongong, Australia.
(2024) M. Zalat, M. Davoudzade, C. Barber, D. Krauss, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Network Digital Twin for IGP Weight Optimization Demo”, to appear in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024) (demo papers), 28 – 31 October 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
(2024) M. Zalat, M. Davoudzade, C. Barber, D. Krauss, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “A Practical Network Digital Twin for IGP Weight Optimization”, to appear in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), 28 – 31 October 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
(2024) J. Blondin, B. Esfandiari, “Planning with Non-Deterministic Actions in Jason”, to appear in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024), October 19th 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(2024) H. Govindasamy, B. Esfandiari and P. Garcia, “Accelerating Boolean Constraint Propagation for Efficient SAT-Solving on FPGAs”, (poster) in Proceedings of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2024 (GLSVLSI’24), Tampa Bay Area, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 305-309.
(2023) P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “Quantifying the Relationship Between Software Design Principles and Performance in Jason: a Case Study with Simulated Mobile Robots”, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 08 June 2023; DOI: 10.1007/s10472-023-09844-3
(2023) M. Zalat, C. Barber, D. Krauss, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Network Routing Optimization using Digital Twins”, in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering (DTE), Vienna, Austria, 2023, CEUR-WS Vol-3645, urn:nbn:de:0074-3645-7
(2023) B. Wubete, B. Esfandiari and T. Kunz, “Leveraging Spatiotemporal Relations for Predicting Potential Link Failures”, (poster) in Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), October 30-November 2 2023, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, pp.1-5.
(2023) M. Vezina, B. Esfandiari, F. Schwarzentruber and S. Morley, “Qualitative Uncertainty Reasoning in AgentSpeak”, in Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2023), September 14-15, 2023, Naples, Italy, Springer Nature, pp. 32-48.
(2023) B. Wubete, T. Triplet, D. Cote, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Importance of Optical Metrics for IGP Configuration Change Prediction”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023), June 19-22, 2023, Valencia, Spain, pp. 26-33.
(2023) M. Vezina, B. Esfandiari, F. Schwarzentruber, S. Morley, “Reasoning about Uncertainty in AgentSpeak using Dynamic Epistemic Logic”, extended abstract, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’23), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 2394-2396.
(2022) P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “Quantifying the Relationship Between Software Design Principles and Performance in Jason”, in Proceedings of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2022
(2022) M, Vezina, B. Esfandiari, “Epistemic Reasoning in Jason”, in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’22), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp1328-1336.
(2021) J. Miller, B. Esfandiari, “Analysis of the Execution Time of the Jason BDI Reasoning Cycle”, in Proceedings of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2021. Alechina, N., Baldoni, M., Logan, B. (eds) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13190. Springer, Cham, pp. 218-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97457-2_13
(2021) P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “BDI for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation”, in Proceedings of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2021. Alechina, N., Baldoni, M., Logan, B. (eds) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13190. Springer, Cham, pp. 137-155. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97457-2_8
(2021) M. Zalat, B. Esfandiari, “Performance Metrics for State-Based Imitation Learning”, in Proceedings of 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34), 2021. DOI: 10.32473/flairs.v34i1.128479
(2021) P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “Agent in a Box: A Framework for Autonomous Mobile Robots with Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions”, Special Issue “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” of Electronics, MDPI, 2021, 10(17), 2136; DOI: 10.3390/electronics10172136
(2020) C. Onyedinma, P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “Toward Campus Mail Delivery using BDI”, in Rafael C. Cardoso, Angelo Ferrando, Daniela Briola, Claudio Menghi and Tobias Ahlbrecht: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2020), 4th September 2020, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 319, pp. 127–143. Published: 23rd July 2020. DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.319.10
(2020) C. Peters, B. Esfandiari, R. West, “Characterizing Human vs Machine GamePlay in StarCraft II”, in Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM 2020), ISBN-13: 978-0-9985082-4-5, published by the Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. pp194-200.
(2020) T. Highstead, B. Esfandiari, R. West, “Ethical Test-Driven Development: A Design Process for Building Ethical AI”, in Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM 2020), ISBN-13: 978-0-9985082-4-5, published by the Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. pp88-92.
(2020) M. Vezina, B. Esfandiari, “The Requirement Gatherers’ Approach to the 2019 Multi-Agent Programming Contest Scenario”, in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Challenges Series, Springer, 2020, pp 106-150
(2020) C. Onyedinma, P. Gavigan, B. Esfandiari, “Toward Campus Mail Delivery Using BDI”, Special Issue “Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy” of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, MDPI, 9(4), 56; DOI: 10.3390/jsan9040056 – 08 Dec 2020.
(2020) T. Kunz, S. Ngozi Echegini, B. Esfandiari, “A P2P Approach to Routing in Hierarchical MANETs”, Communications and Network, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 99-121, Scientific Research Publishing, 2020. DOI: 10.4236/cn.2020.123006
(2019) A. Davoust, P. Gavigan, C. Ruiz-Martin, G. Trabes, B. Esfandiari, G. Wainer, J. James, “An Architecture for Integrating BDI Agents with a Simulation Environment”, in Proceedings of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2019, Montreal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12058. Springer, Cham, May 2019, pp. 67-84.
(2019) C. Peters, B. Esfandiari, A. Gunaratne and R. L. West, “Behavioral Cloning in OpenAI using Case-Based Reasoning”, in Proceedings of Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA 2019), May 2019, Montreal, Canada
(2019) C. Peters, T.C. Stewart, R.L. West, B. Esfandiari, “Dynamic Action Selection in OpenAI using Spiking Neural Networks”, in Proceedings of 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32), 19-22 May 2019, Sarasota, Florida, AAAI Press 2019, pp. 318-323.
(2019) A. Cormier, F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Approaches to Securing P2PSIP in MANETs”. In: Obaidat M., Cabello E. (eds) E-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 990. Springer, Cham, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030-11038-3, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11039-0_3
(2018) C. Peters, R. West, B. Esfandiari, “An SGOMS Model of Human Star Craft Game Playing’”, in Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), 2018, pp. 97-103, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
(2018) A. Gunaratne, B. Esfandiari, “A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Learning State-Based Behavior”, in Proceedings of 31st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-31), 2018, Melbourne, Florida, pp. 377-382.
(2018) T. Kunz, B Esfandiari, S. Ngozi Echegini, F. Ockenfeld, “P2P Overlay Performance in Large-Scale MANETs”, Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS), 2018.
(2018) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Supplemental Observation Acquisition for Learning by Observation Agents”, Applied Intelligence, Springer, 48(11), pp. 4338-4354, 2018.
(2017) B. Esfandiari, A.R. Farid Amin, E.H. Kadri, A. Telfer, “A model for the behaviors and incentives of users in a decentralized data-sharing network”, Web Intelligence, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 205-217, 2017, IOS Press.
(2017) N. Silas, T. Kunz, B. Esfandiari, “Evaluating chord over a hierarchical MANET,” 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, 2017, pp. 608-617. (best paper)
(2017) A. Cormier, F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, “Toward Testing Security Attacks and Defense Mechanisms for P2PSIP in MANETs with a Simulator”, in Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications – Volume 3: DCNET, (ICETE 2017) pp. 43-54, ISBN 978-989-758-256-1
(2017) T. Kunz, B. Esfandiari, F. Ockenfeld, “Efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Social Networks”, in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2017), 21-23 June, Exeter, UK, 2017, pp.216-222.
(2017) A. Davoust, F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, T. Kunz, A. Cormier, “Towards Securing Peer-to-peer SIP in the MANET Context: Existing Work and Perspectives”, in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2017), 21-23 June, Exeter, UK, 2017, pp.223-229.
(2017) A. Gunaratne, B. Esfandiari, C. Chan, “Towards a Framework for Testing Learning from Observation of State-Based Agents”, in Proceedings of 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 27-29, 2017.
(2017) B. Esfandiari, “Toward Secure and Efficient Peer-to-Peer Voice over IP Communication in Large-scale Hierarchical Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Keynote at the 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3 – 5 October, 2017
(2016) B. Esfandiari, A. Davoust, “Distributed Wikis and Social Networks: A Good Fit”, Keynote speaker at 8th International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Communities, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, pp. 937-938. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4144-8. doi: 10.1145/2872518.2890584, April 2016.
(2016) A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “Processing Regular Path Queries on Arbitrarily Distributed Data”, in Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: (OTM 2016), Rhodes, Greece, October 24-28, 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 10033, Springer, pp. 844-861.
(2016) A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “User Participation and Honesty in Online Rating Systems: What a Social Network Can Do”, in Proceedings of Workshops of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Incentive and Trust in E-Communities, January 2016.
(2014) V. Andreeva, J. Beland, S. Gaudreau, M.W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Creating Non-Player Characters in a First-Person Shooter Game Using Learning by Observation”, in Proceedings of 2014 ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Agents, Cork, Ireland, Sept. 29, 2014, pp. 37-46.
(2014) M. V. Bicakci, B. Esfandiari, S. Marsh, “Anomaly Detection for Mobile Device Comfort”, in Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM 2014), Springer’s AICT Series vol. 430, pp. 93-108.
(2013) T. Storer, S. Marsh, S. Noël, B. Esfandiari, K. El-Khatib, P. Briggs, K. Renaud, M. V. Bicakci, “Encouraging Second Thoughts: Obstructive User Interfaces for Raising Security Awareness”, in Proceedings of Eleventh Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2013, IEEE 2013 ISBN 978-1-4673-5839-2, pp. 366-368
(2013) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Analysis and Cleaning of User Traces Through Comparison of Multiple Traces”, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2013, St. Pete Beach, Florida. May 22-24, 2013. AAAI Press 2013, pp. 375-380.
(2012) S. Marsh, S. Noel, T. Storer, Y. Wang, P. Briggs, L. Robart, J. Stewart, B. Esfandiari, K. El-Khatib, M. V. Bicakci, M. C. Dao, M. Cohen, D. D. Silva, “Non-standards for trust: Foreground trust and second thoughts for mobile security”, in Proceedings of Security and Trust Management, STM 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27-28, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-29962-9STM 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2012, pp. 28-39.
(2012) A. Davoust, G. Wainer, B. Esfandiari, “DEVS Simulation of Peer-To-Peer File-Sharing”, in Proceedings of 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, pp.357-364.
(2012) A. Davoust, A. Craig, B. Esfandiari, V. Kazmierski, “Decentralized Collaboration with a Peer-to-peer Wiki”, in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012), pp. 286-293. Best Paper Award.
(2012) M. W. Floyd, M. V. Bicakci, B. Esfandiari, “Case-Based Learning by Observation in Robotics Using a Dynamic Case Representation”, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Marco Island, Florida. May 23-25, 2012. AAAI Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-57735-558-8, pp. 323-328.
(2011) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Learning State-Based Behaviour using Temporally Related Cases”, in Proceedings of Sixteenth UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (UKCBR 2011), CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 829, urn:nbn:de:0074-829-9.
(2011) P. Chandrasekaran, B. Esfandiari, “A Model For A Testbed For Evaluating Reputation Systems”, in Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2011), pp. 296-304.
(2011) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “A Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Developing Agents Using Learning by Observation”, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011), Nov. 7-9, 2011, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, IEEE 2011 ISBN 978-1-4577-2068-0, pp. 531-538. SJR: 0.27
(2011) A. Craig, A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “A Peer-to-peer Wiki System Based on the Principles of File-sharing”, in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2011), Lyon, France.
(2011) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Supplemental Case Acquisition using Mixed-Initiative Control”, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 18-20, 2011, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. AAAI Press 2011, pp. 395-400.
(2010) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Toward a Domain-independent Case-based Reasoning Approach for Imitation: Three Case Studies in Gaming”, in Proceedings of the ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning For Computer Games, Alessandria, Italy, July 2010, pp.55-64.
(2010) E. Acosta, B. Esfandiari, M. W. Floyd, “Feature Selection for CBR in Imitation of RoboCup Agents: A Comparative Study”, in Proceedings of the ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning For Computer Games, Alessandria, Italy, July 2010, pp. 25-34.
(2010) F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, T. Dej, “Network in a Box”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET 2010), 2010, pp.55-60
(2009) C. Bellinger, J. Lalonde, M. W. Floyd, V. Mallur, E. Elkanzi, D. Ghazi, J. He, A. Mouttham, M. Scaiano, E. Wehbe, N. Japkowicz, An Evaluation of the Value Added by Informative Metrics. 2009. To appear in 4th Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning at the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2009, Montreal, Canada, June 14-18, 2009.
(2009) A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “Collaborative Building, Sharing and Handling of Graphs of Documents Using P2P File-Sharing”, in Proceedings of OTM 2009 Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5872, Springer 2009, pp. 888-897.
(2009) F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, “Using Answer Set Programming to Enhance Operating System Discovery”, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’09), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5753, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-04237-9, pp. 579-584.
(2009) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “An Active Approach to Automatic Case Generation”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Case-based Reasoning (ICCBR 2009), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5650, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-02997-4, pp. 150-164.
(2009) F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, “Using Contextual Information for IDS Alarm Classification”, in Proceedings of Sixth Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5587, Springer 2009, IBN 978-3-642-02917-2, pp. 147-156.
(2008) A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “Towards Semantically Enhanced Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing”, in Proceedings of International Workshop On Semantic Extensions to Middleware (SEMELS ’08), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops, Monterrey, Mexico, November 9-14, 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5333 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-88874-1, pp. 937-946.
(2008) F. Gagnon, T. Dej, B. Esfandiari, “VNEC – A Virtual Network Experiment Controller”, Second International Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies (SVM 2008), Munich, Germany, October, 21-22, 2008, Springer 2008, ISBN 3540887075, pp. 119-124.
(2008) F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, “A Query-Based Approach for Test Selection in Diagnosis – Operating System Discovery as a Case Study”, In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX’08), Blue Mountains, Australia, September 2008.
(2008) M. W. Floyd, A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “Considerations for Real-Time Spatially-Aware Case-Based Reasoning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer Imitation”, in proceedings of European Conference on Case-based Reasoning (ECCBR 2008), Trier, Germany, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5239, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-85501-9, pp. 195-209
(2008) A. Davoust, M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “Use of Fuzzy Histograms to Model the Spatial Distribution of Objects in Case-Based Reasoning”, in proceedings of 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008, Windsor, Canada, May 28-30, 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5032 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-68821-1: pp. 72-83
(2007) M. W. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, K. Lam, “A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Imitating RoboCup Players”, in Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2008), May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA. AAAI Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-57735-365-2: pp. 251-256.
(2007) A. Kassim, B. Esfandiari, S. Majumdar, L. Serghi, “A Flexible Hybrid Architecture for Management of Distributed Web Service Registries”, poster at Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2007), 14-17 May 2006, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. IEEE Computer Society 2007, pp. 311-313.
(2007) G.R. Gangadharan, M. Weiss, B. Esfandiari, V. D’Andrea, “A Feature Interaction View of License Conflicts”, International Conference on Feature Interactions (ICFI), 25-37, 2007.
(2007) F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, L. Bertossi, “A Hybrid Approach to Operating System Discovery Using Answer Set Programming”, in Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007), Munich, Germany, 21-25 May 2007. IEEE 2007, pp. 391-400.
(2006) N. Arthorne and B. Esfandiari, “Peer-to-peer Data Integration with Distributed Bridges”, Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, October 16-19, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. IBM 2006, pp. 174-188
(2006) M. Weiss, A. Oreshkin and B. Esfandiari, “Offline Detection of Functional Feature Interactions of Web Services”, in Proceedings of Montreal Conference on eTechnologies 2006 (MCeTech), pp.129-136.
(2006) K. Lam, B. Esfandiari, D. Tudino, “A Scene-based Imitation Framework for RoboCup Clients”, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Modeling Others from Observation (MOO 2006).
(2006) F. Massicotte, F. Gagnon, M. Couture, Y. Labiche, L. Briand, Automatic Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems – In Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.
(2005) M. Weiss, A. Oreshkin, B. Esfandiari, “Invocation Order Matters: Functional Feature Interactions of Web Services”, in Proceedings of ICSOC’05s Workshop on Engineering Service Compositions, pp.69-76, IBM, 2005.
(2005) M. Weiss, B. Esfandiari, Y. Luo, “Towards a Classification of Web Service Feature Interactions”, Proceedings of ACM’s 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’05), pp. 101 – 114, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3826, Springer
(2005) R. Nock, B. Esfandiari, “On-Line Adaptive Filtering of Web Pages”, short paper, in Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005, 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3721, Springer, ISBN 3-540-29244-6, pp.634-642
(2005) M. Weiss, B. Esfandiari, “Patterns for Negotiating Actors”, in Proceedings of EuroPlop 2005, Tenth European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, UVK – Universitaetsverlag Konstanz, ISBN 978-3-87940-805-4, pp. 35-74
(2005) S. Chandrasekharan, B. Esfandiari, and T. Hassan, “Advantages of the Signaling Strategy in a Dynamic Environment: Cognitive Modeling Using Robocup”. Ansgar Bredenfeld, Adam Jacoff, Itsuki Noda, Yasutake Takahashi (Eds.): RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4020 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-35437-9, pp. 665-672.
(2005) B. Esfandiari, V. Tosic, “Towards Web Service Composition Management Framework”, in Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), Orlando, USA, July 11-15, 2005, IEEE, pp. 419-426.
(2005) B. Esfandiari, R. Nock, “Adaptive Filtering of Advertisements on Web Pages”, in Proceedings of IEEE WWW2005 Poster and Industrial Track Papers.
(2004) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, K. Patel, B. Esfandiari, W. Ma, ”WSOL & WSOI – Web Service Offerings Language and Infrastructure”, invited speaker at CASCON 2004 Workshop “Policy and Service Level Agreements: Their Role in Automated Management in Systems”
(2004) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, On Comprehensive Contractual Descriptions of Web Services – in Proc. of EEE-05 (The 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce, and e-Service), Hong Kong, China, March 29 – April 1, 2005, IEEE, pp. 444-449. (Early, longer, version published as: Technical Report #635, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, October 2004).
(2004) S. Chandrasekharan, B. Esfandiari, N. Arthorne, “Why Soccer Players Yell: Using RoboCup to Model the Advantage of Signaling”, in Proceedings of ICCM 2004 (6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling), Pittsburgh, PA.
(2004) B. Esfandiari, V. Tosic, “Requirements for Web Service Composition Management”, 11th HP-OpenView University Association Workshop, 2004 Paris
(2004) T. Hassan, B. Esfandiari, “ITAS and the Reverse RoboCup Challenge”, in Proceedings of RoboCup International Symposium 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3276, Springer 2004, pp. 645-652. (68/118)
(2004) M. Weiss, B. Esfandiari, ”On Feature Interactions in Web Services and their Detection”, in Proceedings of ICWS 2004 (IEEE International Conference on Web Services), pp. 88-95, IEEE Computer Society
(2004) V. Tosic, W. Ma, B. Pagurek, B. Esfandiari, ”Web Services Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) – A Management Infrastructure for XML Web Services”, in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004), pp. 817- 830 Vol.1, Seoul, April 19-23, 2004.
(2003) V. Tosic, B. Esfandiari, W. Ma, B. Pagurek, ”On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services”, 10th Annual Workshop of HP-OVUA, 2003 Geneva
(2003) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, K. Patel, B. Esfandiari, W. Ma, “Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)”, in Proc. of CAiSE’03 (The 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering), Velden, Austria, June 16-20, 2003, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No.2681, pp. 468-484.
(2003) N. Arthorne, B. Esfandiari, A. Mukherjee, ”U-P2P: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Universal Resource Sharing and Discovery”, in Proc. of USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, pp. 29-38.
(2003) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, K. Patel, WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Classes of Service for Web Services – In Proc. of ICWS’03 (The 2003 International Conference on Web Services), Las Vegas, USA, June 23-26, 2003, CSREA Press, pp. 375-381, 2003.
(2003) V. Tosic, D. Mennie, B. Pagurek, Software Configuration Management Related to the Management of Distributed Systems and Service Oriented Architectures – in Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds.) Software Configuration Management, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2649, pp. 54-69, 2003 (Extension)
(2003) V. Tosic, K. Patel, B. Pagurek, Reusability Constructs in the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) – In Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web – Proc. of the Second International Workshop, WES 2003, Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), workshop held at CAiSE’03, Velden, Austria, June 2003, Springer-Verlag,(LNCS), No. 3095, pp. 105-119, 2003.
(2003) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, K. Patel, B. Esfandiari, W. Ma, Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) – in Proc. of CAiSE’03 (The 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering), Velden, Austria, June 16-20, 2003, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No.2681, pp. 468-484, 2003.
(2003)V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, K. Patel, WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Classes of Service for Web Services – In Proc. of ICWS’03 (The 2003 International Conference on Web Services), Las Vegas, USA, June 23-26, 2003, CSREA Press, pp. 375-381, 2003.
(2003) V. Tosic, D. Mennie, B. Pagurek, Software Configuration Management Related to the Management of Distributed Systems and Service Oriented Architectures – in Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds.) Software Configuration Management, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2649, pp. 54-69, 2003 (Extension).
(2003) B. Esfandiari, ”Meta-Data Support in P2P Systems: Overview and Case Study”, invited speaker at the CITO Tech Talk on Peer-to-peer Technologies, Feb.25th 2003.
(2003) V. Tosic, B. Esfandiari, B. Pagurek and K. Patel, “On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services”, in CAiSE 2002 Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES), pp.237-247.
(2003) A. Mukherjee, B. Esfandiari, N. Arthorne, “U-P2P: A Peer-to-peer System for Description and Discovery of Resource-sharing Communities”, in ICDCS (International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems) 2002 IEEE Workshop Proceedings of Resource Sharing in Massively Distributed Systems (RESH 02), IEEE Computer Society Publisher, pp 701-706.
(2002) V. Tosic, D. Mennie, B. Pagurek, On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems – The ICARIS Experience – in Corchuelo et al. (eds.) Advances in Business Solutions, Catedral Publicaciones (Salamanca, Spain), ISBN: 84-96086-01-1, pp. 93-104, 2002. (Extension)
(2002) T.White , B.Pagurek , D.Deugo, Management of Mobile Agent Systems: Learning from the Ants – In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2002), Las Vegas, June 24-27 2002.
(2002) T. White, B. Pagurek, D. Deugo, Management of Mobile Agent Systems using Social Insect Metaphors – In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-Repairing and Self-Configurable Distributed Systems (RCDS 2002), Osaka Japan, 13th October, 2002.
(2002) V. Tosic, K. Patel, B. Pagurek, WSOL – Web Service Offerings Language – in Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web – WES (at CAiSE’02), Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), Toronto, Canada, May 2002.
(2002) T. White, B. Pagurek, and D. Deugo, Collective Intelligence and Priority Routing in Networks – In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE 2002), Cairns, Australia, June 17-20 2002.
(2002) T. White, B. Pagurek, D. Deugo, Biologically-inspired Agents for Priority Routing in Networks – In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS 2002), Pensacola Florida, May 14-16 2002.
(2001) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, B. Esfandiari, K. Patel, “Management of Compositions of E- and M-Business Web Services with Multiple Classes of Service”, 2001 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium poster program.
(2001) V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, B. Esfandiari, K. Patel, “On the Management of Compositions of Web Services”, in ACM’s OOPSLA 2001 Workshop on Object-Oriented Web Services.
(2001) L. Tan, B. Esfandiari, B. Pagurek, “The Swap Box: A Test Container and a Framework for Hot-swappable Java Beans”, Sixth International ACM ECOOP Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, 2001.
(2001) B. Esfandiari, “Pervasive E-commerce with XML”, Invited speaker presentation at ENTER 2001 (leading conference on Information Technology in travel and tourism, sponsored by IFITT, the International Federation for Information Technology and Tourism), Montreal.
(2001) B. Esfandiari, S. Chandrasekharan, “On How Agents Make Friends: Mechanisms for Trust Acquisition”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Autonomous Agents Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies 2001, pp 27-34.
(2000) D. Mennie, B. Pagurek, An Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Service Components – 5th International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, WCOP 2000, Cannes, France, June 12, 2000.
(2000) B. Pagurek , J. Tang , T. White , R. Glitho, Management of Advanced Services in H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony – Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2000, Tel Aviv, April 2000.
(2000) B. Pagurek , Y. Wang , T. White, Integration of Mobile Agents with SNMP: Why and How – IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2000, Honolulu, April 10, 2000.
(2000) S. Chandrasekharan, B. Esfandiari, “Software Agents and Situatedness: Being Where?”, in Proceedings of the AAAI Eleventh Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, AAAI Press, 2000, pp 29-32.