Babak Esfandiari's publication list

book chapters

• Francois Gagnon and Babak Esfandiari, "Using Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection", in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 160, "Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering", Edited by Ilias Maglogiannis, Kostas Karpouzis, Manolis Wallace, John Soldatos, IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-58603-780-2, 2007, pp. 295 - 306.

• Michael Weiss and Babak Esfandiari, "Modeling Method for Assessing Privacy Technologies", in "Privacy Protection for E-Services", George Yee Ed., Idea Group 2006, pp 265-280.

• Stephen Marsh, Pamela Briggs, Khalil El-Khatib, Babak Esfandiari, "Defining and Investigating Device Comfort", to appear in Journal of Information Processing, Information Processing Society of Japan.

• Francois Gagnon, Babak Esfandiari, Frederic Massicotte, "A hybrid approach to operating system discovery based on diagnosis", to appear in International Journal of Network Management, Wiley, doi: 10.1002/nem.751.

• Alan Davoust, Babak Esfandiari, "Towards Semantically Enhanced File-Sharing", Journal of Software, Vol 4, No 8 (2009), 787-797, Oct 2009, Academy Publisher.

• Gagnon, F., Esfandiari, B., "A query-based approach for test selection in diagnosis", Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 29, Numbers 3-4 / June, 2008, pp 249-263, Springer.

• Weiss, M., Esfandiari, B., Luo, Y., "Towards a Classification of Web Service Feature Interactions", Special Issue of Computer Networks on Feature Interactions on Emerging Application Domains, Vol.51, Issue 2, pp.359-381, Elsevier, 2007.

• Weiss, M., Oreshkin, A., Esfandiari, B., "Method for Detecting Functional Feature of Interactions of Web Services", in Special Issue on "Engineering Design and Composition of Service-Oriented Applications" of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 21(4), 273-284, 2006, CRL Publishing.

• Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. "Analytical Comparisons of Switching of Web Services and Switching of Service Offerings", International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) special issue on Web Services, Business Process, and Services Science, Volume 2 - Issue 1 - 2006, Inderscience, pp. 50-67.

• Tosic, V., Ma, W., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Lutfiyya, H. "Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring of Web Service Offerings", International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC) special issue on Business Services Networks, Idea Group, 2005, pp. 53-75. (Extended and updated version of the BSN paper listed below)

• Michael Weiss, Babak Esfandiari, "On Feature Interactions in Web Services and their Detection", International Journal of Web Services Research, 2(4), 21-45, October-December 2005, Idea Group.

• Vladimir Tosic, Bernard Pagurek, Kruti Patel, Babak Esfandiari, Wei Ma, "Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)", Information Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2005, pp. 564-586.

• B. Esfandiari, G. Deflandre, J. Quinqueton and C. Dony, "Agent-Oriented Techniques for Network Supervision", Annals of Telecommunications, Tome 51, No. 9-10, Sept 1996, pp 521-529. [5]

• Michael Floyd, Babak Esfandiari, "Toward a Domain-independent Case-based Reasoning Approach for Imitation: Three Case Studies in Gaming", to appear in Proceedings of the ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning For Computer Games, 2010

• Edgar Acosta, Babak Esfandiari, Michael Floyd, "Feature Selection for CBR in Imitation of RoboCup Agents: A Comparative Study", to appear in Proceedings of the ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning For Computer Games, 2010

• Francois Gagnon, Babak Esfandiari, "Network in a Box", to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET 2010), 2010.

• Alan Davoust, Babak Esfandiari, "Collaborative Building, Sharing and Handling of Graphs of Documents Using P2P File-Sharing", in Proceedings of OTM 2009 Workshops, LNCS 5872, pp. 888-897, Springer 2009.

• Francois Gagnon, Babak 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, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-04237-9, pp. 579-584.

• Michael Floyd, Babak Esfandiari, "Comparison of Classifiers for use in a Learning by Demonstration System for a Situated Agent", in Proceedings of 2009 ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for Computer Games.

• Michael Floyd, Babak 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, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-02997-4, pp. 150-164.

• Francois Gagnon, Babak 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, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-02917-2, pp. 147-156.

• Alan Davoust, Babak Esfandiari, "Towards Semantically Enhanced Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing", 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

• Francois Gagnon, Tomas Dej and Babak Esfandiari, "VNEC - A Virtual Network Experiment Controller", Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies, Second International Workshop, SVM 2008 Munich, Germany, October, 21-22, 2008, Springer, 2008, ISBN 3540887075, pp. 119-124.

• Francois Gagnon, Babak 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.

• Michael W. Floyd, Alan Davoust, Babak Esfandiari, "Considerations for Real-Time Spatially-Aware Case-Based Reasoning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer Imitation", ECCBR 2008: 195-209, Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Ralph Bergmann, Mirjam Minor, Alexandre Hanft (Eds.): Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, 9th European Conference, ECCBR 2008, Trier, Germany, September 1-4, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5239 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85501-9.
• Alan Davoust, Michael W. Floyd, Babak 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: 72-83

• Michael W. Floyd, Babak Esfandiari, Kevin Lam, "A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Imitating RoboCup Players", in Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA. AAAI Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-57735-365-2: 251-256

• Gangadharan, G. R., Weiss, M., Esfandiari, B., and D'Andrea, V., "A Feature Interaction View of License Conflicts", International Conference on Feature Interactions (ICFI), 25-37, 2007.

• Afiya Kassim, Babak Esfandiari, Shikharesh Majumdar, Laura 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.

• Francois Gagnon, Babak Esfandiari and Leopoldo 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.

• Neal Arthorne and Babak 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 (24/90)

• Michael Weiss, Alexander Oreshkin and Babak Esfandiari, "Offline Detection of Functional Feature Interactions of Web Services", in Proceedings of Montreal Conference on eTechnologies 2006 (MCeTech), pp. 129-136.

• Kevin Lam, Babak Esfandiari and David Tudino, "A Scene-Based Imitation Framework for Robo Cup Clients", Proceedings of the AAAI 2006 Workshop on Modeling Others from Observation (MOO 2006).

• Michael Weiss, Alexander Oreshkin and Babak 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.

• Michael Weiss, Babak Esfandiari and Yun 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 (32/200).

• Nock, R., Esfandiari, B., "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, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3721 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-29244-6, pp.634-642 (70/250: 35 full, 35 short).

• Michael Weiss, Babak Esfandiari, "Patterns for Negotiating Actors", Euro Plop 2005

• Chandrasekharan, S., Esfandiari, E., and Hassan, T. (2005). "The Advantages of the Signaling Strategy in a Dynamic Environment: Cognitive Modeling Using Robo Cup", Ansgar Bredenfeld, Adam Jacoff, Itsuki Noda, Yasutake Takahashi (Eds.): Robo Cup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4020 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-35437-9, pp. 665-672.

• Esfandiari, B., Tosic, V. "Towards a System for Web Service Composition Management", in Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), Orlando, USA, July 11-15, 2005, IEEE, pp. 419-426.

• Esfandiari, B., Nock, R. "Adaptive Filtering of Advertisements on Web Pages", Allan Ellis, Tatsuya Hagino (Eds.): Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2005, Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005 - Special interest tracks and posters. ACM 2005, ISBN 1-59593-051-5, p.916. http://www2005.sfc.keio.ac.jp/cdrom/content2.htm#S7

• Ma, W., Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B. "Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring of Web Service Offerings", in Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSNĠ05) held at EEE-05, Hong Kong, China, March 29, 2005.

• Chandrasekharan, S., Esfandiari, B., Arthorne, N. "Why Soccer Players Yell: Using Robo Cup to Model the Advantage of Signaling", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling-ICCM 2004, in M. C. Lovett, C. D. Schunn, C. Lebiere & P. Munro (Eds.), Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 58-63.

• Babak Esfandiari, Vladimir Tosic, "Requirements for Web Service Composition Management", 11th HP-OVUA 2004 Workshop.

• Tarek Hassan, Babak Esfandiari, "ITAS and the Reverse Robo Cup Challenge", Robo Cup International Symposium 2004, poster session, pp. 645-652. (30 full + 38 poster/118)

• Michael Weiss, Babak Esfandiari, "On Feature Interactions in Web Services and their Detection", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'04), pp. 88-95, IEEE Computer Society. 66/230

• Tosic, V., Ma, W., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. "Web Services Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) - A Management Infrastructure for XML Web Services", in Proc. of NOMS (IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2004, Seoul, South Korea, April 19-23, 2004, IEEE, 2004, pp. 817-830.

• Vladimir Tosic, Babak Esfandiari, Wei Ma, Bernard Pagurek, "On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services", 10th Annual Workshop of HP-OVUA, 2003 Geneva

• Vladimir Tosic, Bernard Pagurek, Kruti Patel, Babak Esfandiari, Wei Ma, "Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)", 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. 47/220

• N. Arthorne, B. Esfandiari, A. Mukherjee, "U-P2P: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Universal Resource Sharing and Discovery", USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, pp. 29-38. 24/103

• Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. "On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services", in Proc. of the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web - WES (at CAiSEĠ02), Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), Toronto, Canada, May 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2512, pp.237-247, 2002.

• A. Mukherjee, B. Esfandiari, N. Arthorne, "U-P2P: A Peer-to-peer System for Description and Discovery of Resource-sharing Communities", ICDCS 2002 IEEE Workshop Proceedings of Resource Sharing in Massively Distributed Systems (RESH 02), IEEE Computer Society Publisher, order number PR01588, pp 701-706. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/esfandiari/papers/up2p-resh-2.ps

• V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, B. Esfandiari, K. Patel, "Management of Compositions of E- and M-Business Web Services with Multiple Classes of Service", 2001 Network Operations and Management Symposium poster program.

• V. Tosic, B. Pagurek, B. Esfandiari, K. Patel, "On the Management of Compositions of Web Services", OOPSLA 2001 Workshop on Object-Oriented Web Services.

• L. Tan, B. Esfandiari, and B. Pagurek, "The Swap Box: A Test Container and a Framework for Hot-swappable Java Beans", Sixth International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, 2001. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/esfandiari/papers/WCOP-Swapbox.doc

• B. Esfandiari and S. Chandrasekharan, "On How Agents Make Friends: Mechanisms for Trust Acquisition", Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies 2001, pp 27-34. [9]

• S. Chandrasekharan and B. Esfandiari, "Software Agents and Situatedness: Being Where?", Proceedings of the Eleventh Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, AAAI Press, 2000, pp 29-32.

• B. Esfandiari, G. Deflandre and J. Quinqueton, "An Interface Agent for Network Supervision", IATA 1996 (Intelligent Agents for Telecom Applications), ed. S. Albayrak, IOS Press Publisher, 1998, pp 21-28. [8]

• R. Nock and B. Esfandiari, "Oracles and Assistants: Machine Learning Applied to Network Supervision", the Twelfth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1418, Springer, 1998, pp 86-98.

• B. Esfandiari, G. Deflandre, J. Quinqueton and M. Plu, "A Multi-Agent Perspective for Assistance to a Network Supervision Operator", MAAMAW 1996 Poster Session. [4]

• B. Esfandiari, J. Quinqueton and R. Terrat, "Designing a Multi-Agent Environment by Using Network Management Concepts & Standards", ECOOP 1995 Workshop OO & Telecom. [3]

• J.-L. Koning, Y. Demazeau, B. Esfandiari and J. Quinqueton, "Quelques Perspectives d'Utilisation des Langages et Protocoles d'Interaction dans le Contexte des Telecommunications", Journees Francaises IADSMA 1995, pp 41-52. [2]

• Vladimir Tosic, Bernard Pagurek, Kruti Patel, Babak Esfandiari, Wei 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"

• 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.

• B. Esfandiari, "Pervasive E-commerce with XML", Invited speaker presentation at IFIP's ENTER 2001, Montreal.

• B. Esfandiari, "Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Network Management Problems", Canadian AI Magazine, No. 41, Summer 1997, pp 3-6. [7]

• J. Quinqueton, B. Esfandiari and R. Nock, "Chronicle Learning and Agent-Oriented Techniques for Network Management and Supervision", International Conference on Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks, in Chapman & Hall editor, 1997, pp 131-141.

• B. Esfandiari, J. Quinqueton, J.-L. Koning and Y. Demazeau, "Systemes Multi-Agents et Gestion de Reseaux", Journees Nationales du PRC-GDR IA 1995, pp 317-330. [1]

• Chandrasekharan, S., Stewart, T.C., The Origin of Epistemic Structures and Proto-Representations, to appear in Adaptive Behaviour, SAGE Publications, 2007.

• Kevin Lam, Babak Esfandiari, "Using Peer-to-peer Networks For a Component Repository Search System", Carleton University Research Report SCE-03-20

• V. Tosic, B. Esfandiari, B. Pagurek, K. Patel and W. Ma, "Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) and Web Service Composition Management (WSCM)", Object-Oriented Web Services Workshop at OOPSLA 2002 (position paper).

• B. Esfandiari, "Application de techniques orientees agent en gestion et supervision de reseaux", Ph.D. thesis, LIRMM, Universite Montpellier II, Jan. 1997. [6]