Doctoral Theses

Michael Vezina, “An Epistemic Reasoner for AgentSpeak”, Ph.D., May 2023.

Patrick Gavigan, “Agent in a Box: an Agent-based Architecture for Robotics”, Ph.D., May 2022.

Chad Peters (Institute of Cognitive Science), “A Model-Driven Approach to Integrated Cognition”, co-supervised with Robert West, Ph.D., May 2021.

Steve Highstead, M. Cog., “Toward Ethical Software Agents, One Test at a Time”, M.Cog., co-supervised with Robert West, January 2019.

Alan Davoust, “Decentralized Social Data Sharing”, Ph.D., June 2015.

Michael W. Floyd, “A General-Purpose Framework for Learning by Observation”, Ph.D., May 2013, Senate Medal.

Mehmet Vefa Bicakci, “Anomaly Detection for Mobile Device Comfort”, M.A.Sc., August 2013 (co-supervised with Stephen Marsh).

Partheeban Chandrasekaran, “A Testbed for Evaluating Computational Trust Models” M.A.Sc., Sept. 2012.

Francois Gagnon, A Hybrid Approach to Operating System Discovery Based on Diagnosis Theory – Ph. D., May 2010.

Sanjay Chandrasekharan, “Epistemic Structure: An Inquiry into How Agents Change the World for Cognitive Congeniality”, Ph.D., March 2005, co-supervised with Robert West.

Tony White, SynthECA: A Synthetic Ecology of Chemical Agents – Ph.D., August 2000.

 

Master’s Theses

Hari Govindasamy, M.A.Sc., “Hardware Accelerated SAT Solvers”, co-supervised with Paulo Garcia, April 2024.

Bruck Wubete, M.A.Sc., “Machine Learning Approaches For Predicting Link Failures In Production Networks”, co-supervised with Thomas Kunz, November 2023.

Joshua Fryer, M.A.Sc., “Arch-Lang: A DSE Tool for Flexible Hardware/Software Co-Design”, co-supervised with Paulo Garcia, September 2022.

Mahsa Layeghi, M.A.Sc., “Cross-paradigm conversion of an imperative programming to an Asynchronous Graph Programming (AGP) Model”, co-supervised with Paulo Garcia, June 2022.

Sebastien Cook, M.A.Sc., “A Message Passing Many-Core Architecture for an Asynchronous Graph Programming Model”, co-supervised with Paulo Garcia, June 2022.

Mohamed Zalat, M.A.Sc., “Learning State-Based Behavior Using Deep Neural Networks”, co-supervised with Ana-Maria Cretu, September 2021.

Jason Miller, M.A.Sc., “Performance Analysis of the Jason Reasoning Cycle”, August 2021.

Steve Highstead, M. Cog., “Toward Ethical Software Agents, One Test at a Time”, M.Cog., co-supervised with Robert West, January 2019.

Alexandre Cormier, M.A.Sc., “P2PSIP over MANETs: Approaches to a Secure Implementation”, co-supervised with Adjunct Prof. Gagnon, August 2018.

Silas Echegini, M.A.Sc., “ADHT-based Routing Solution for Hierarchical MANETs”, co-supervised with Prof. Kunz, August 2018.

Amrik Gunaratne, M.A.Sc., “A Comparison of Case-Based Reasoning and Probabilistic Graphical Models in the Context of Learning from Observation”, M.A.Sc., May 2018.

Silas Echegini, M.A.Sc., “ADHT-based Routing Solution for Hierarchical MANETs”, co-supervised with Prof. Kunz, August 2018.

Alexandre Cormier, M.A.Sc., “P2PSIP over MANETs: Approaches to a Secure Implementation”, co-supervised with Adjunct Prof. Gagnon, August 2018.

Caleb Chan, “Contributions to Techniques for Learning Non-reactive Behaviour from Observation”,  M.A.Sc., January 2016.

Mehmet Vefa Bicakci, “Anomaly Detection for Mobile Device Comfort”, M.A.Sc., August 2013 (co-supervised with Stephen Marsh).

Partheeban Chandrasekaran, “A Testbed for Evaluating Computational Trust Models” M.A.Sc., Sept. 2012.

Alan Wai, “Learning by Imitation using Inductive Logic Programming” M.A. Sc., Jan. 2011.

Gayathri Jayaraman, “A Mediator-based Data Integration System for Query Answering using an Optimized Extended Inverse Rules Algorithm”, M.A. Sc., May 2010, (co-supervised with Leopoldo Bertossi).

Alan Davoust, Collaborative Knowledge Construction in a Peer to Peer File-Sharing Network – M.A.Sc., Sept. 2009, Senate Medal.

Ming Huang, “A Caching and Pre-fetching System for Web Service Registries”, M.C.S., Sept. 2008. (co-supervised with Shikharesh Majumdar).

Michael W. Floyd. “Improving the Performance of a RoboCup Case-Based Imitation Agent through Preprocessing of the Case Base. Master’s thesis, Carleton University, December 2008. [pdf] (1.2 MB) | [Defense Presentation] (438 KB)

Afiya Kassim, Facilitating Web Service Discovery in Distributed Web Service Registries – M.A.Sc., 2008.

Ming Huang, “A Caching and Pre-fetching System for Web Service Registries”, M.C.S., Sept. 2008. (co-supervised with Shikharesh Majumdar).

Michael W. Floyd, “Case Base Pre-Processing for RoboCup Agent Imitation”, M.A.Sc., Dec. 2008.

Afiya Kassim, “Peer-to-peer Web Service Registries”, M.A.Sc., Dec. 2007. (co-supervised with Shikharesh Majumdar), Senate Medal.

Neal Arthorne, “Peer-to-Peer Data Integration Using Distributed Bridges”, M.A.Sc., Apr. 2005.

Kevin Lam, “A Scene Learning and Recognition Framework for RoboCup Clients”. Master’s thesis, Carleton University, August 2005. [PDF Document] (1.2 MB) | [Defense Presentation] (440 KB)

Paul Marlow, “A Process and Tool-set for the Development of an Interface Agent for use in the RoboCup Environment”. Master’s thesis, Carleton University, December 2004.

Ray Luo, “Feature Interaction in Web Services”, M.C.S., December 2004. (co-supervised with Michael Weiss).

Paul Marlow, “An Interface Agent for RoboCup”, M.A.Sc., December 2004.

Liping Zhao, “Instant Messaging-Based Networked Service Provisioning and Access Framework”, M.Sc., Apr. 2004.

Vladimir Tosic, “Service offerings for XML Web services and their management applications” – Ph.D., 2004.

Aloke Mukherjee, “U-P2P: A Peer-to-peer System for Description and Discovery of Resource-sharing Communities”, M.A.Sc., Aug. 2003.

Kruti Patel, XML Grammar and Parser for the Web Service Offerings Language – M.A.Sc., January 2003.

A.T. Mukherjee, U-P2P: a peer-to-peer system for description and discovery of resource-sharing communities – M.Eng., 2003.

Ray Luo, “Global context information transfer: one way to achieve ubiquitous service access” – M.Sc., 2003.

Diaz Puig, “Management of ubiquitous networks” – M.A.Sc., 2003.

Feng Chen, “Policies and Aspects as Artifacts for Non-Functional Design”, M.Eng., Sept. 2002.

Dongyang Zhang, The Deployment of Features in Internet Telephony– M.A.Sc., January 2002.

Feng Chen, Policies as Design and Implementation Artifacts for Non Functional Requirements – M.Eng., September 2002.

Lei Tan, SwapBox: a Hot-Swapping Framework for Swappable JavaBeans– M.Sc., September 2001.

Tian Lu, A CORBA-based Interface-centric Approach to Signaling for IP-based Telephony Services– M.Eng., March 2001.

Lei Tan, “SwapBox: a Container for Hot-Swapping JavaBeans”, M.Sc., Aug. 2001.

Jingrong Tang, Mobile Agent Based Advanced Service Architecture for H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony– M.Eng., July 2000.

David William Mennie, An Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Service Components and its Applicability to Internet Security– M.Eng., September 2000.

Patricia Cuesta Rivalta, Mobile Agent Management– M.Eng., September 2000.

Gang Ao, Software Hot-swapping Techniques for Upgrading Mission Critical Applications on the Fly– M.Eng., May 2000.

Patricia Cuesta Rivalta, Mobile Agent Management– M.Eng., September 2000.

Chunhui Teng, “Alarm Correlation in ATM Networks” – M.Eng., 1999.

K. Raza, A Plug-and-play Approach with Distributed Computing Alternatives for Network Configuration Management– M.Eng., April 1999.

Ning Feng, S-Module Design for Software Hot-Swapping– M.Eng.,1999.

Y. Wang, “Interface Between Mobile and Legacy SNMP Agents using DPI”– M.Eng., September 1998.

Yarong Li, “PVC Configuration Management in Heterogeneous ATM Networks” – M.Eng., January 1998.

Daniel Choi, SEDO: “Semantic Error Diagnostic Operation” – M.Eng., September 1998.

Richard Brunet, “Temporal Alarm Correlation in Communication Networks” – M.Eng., May 1998.