Carleton University

Publications

Book Chapters and Papers in Refereed Journals
  • (2009) Gagnon F. and Esfandiari B. A Query-Based Approach for Test Selection in Diagnosis: Operating System Discovery as a Case Study - (To Appear) Artificial Intelligence Review Journal: Special Issue on AI & Pervasive Computing.
  • (2009) Davoust A. and Esfandiari B. Towards Semantically Enhanced File-Sharing, Journal of Software vol. 4, Issue 8, October 2009 (to appear).
  • (2008) Gagnon F. and Esfandiari B. Using Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection - Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering - Frontiers in AI and Applications Series, IOS Press, pp. 295.306
  • (2007) 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.
  • (2006) 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.
  • (2006) Weiss M. and Esfandiari B. Modeling Method for Assessing Privacy Technologies - in "Privacy Protection for E-Services", George Yee Ed., Idea Group 2006, pp 265-280.
  • (2006) 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.
  • (2005) 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
  • (2005) Weiss, M., Esfandiari, B. On Feature Interactions in Web Services and their Detection - International Journal of Web Services Research, 2(4), 21-45, October-december 2005, Idea Group.
  • (2004) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) - to appear in special issue of Information Systems, Elsevier 2004
  • (2000) Tang, J., White, T., Pagurek, B., Glitho, R. Advanced Service Architecture for H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony - Computer Communications, special issue on Mobile Software Agents for Telecommunications Applications, Vol.23 No.8, April 2000, pp 740-753.


Invited papers and talks
  • (2004) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. 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"
  • (2003) Esfandiari, B. 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.
  • (2001) Esfandiari, B. Pervasive E-commerce with XML - Invited speaker presentation at ENTER 2001, Montreal.


Refereed conferences and workshops
  • (2009) Gagnon F. and Esfandiari B. - Using Answer Set Programming to Enhance Operating System Discovery - (To Appear) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'09).
  • (2009) Davoust, A. and Esfandiari, B. CollaborativeDiapositive 47 Building, Sharing, and Handling of Graphs of Documents Using P2P File-sharing. In OTM Workshop on Semantic Extensions to Middleware, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 1-6, 2009. Springer LNCS vol. 5872.
  • (2009) Floyd, M. W.; and Esfandiari, B. An Active Approach to Automatic Case Generation. To appear in Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, 8th International Conference, ICCBR 2009, Seattle, USA, July 20-23, 2009.
  • (2009) Floyd, M. W.; and Esfandiari, B. Comparison of Classifiers for use in a Learning by Demonstration System for a Situated Agent. To appear in Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for Computer Games at the 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2009, Seattle, USA, July 20-23, 2009
  • (2009) Bellinger, C.; Lalonde, J.; Floyd, M.W.; Mallur, V.; Elkanzi, E.; Ghazi, D.; He, J.; Mouttham, A.; Scaiano, M.; Wehbe, E.; and Japkowicz, N. 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.
  • (2008) Gagnon F., Esfandiari B. and Dej T. VNEC: A Virtual Network Experiment Controller - Proceedings of the 2nd International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies (SVM'08), 119-124.
  • (2008) Davoust, A. & Esfandiari, B. Towards Semantically Enhanced P2P File-Sharing. To appear in Proc. of International Workshop On Semantic Extensions to Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applications, SEMELS'08, Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9-14, 2008.
  • (2008) Floyd, M.W.; Davoust, A. & Esfandiari, B. Considerations for Real-time Spatially-aware Case-based Reasoning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer Imitation. 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2008, Trier, Germany, September 1-4, 2008, 195-209.
  • (2008) Davoust, A.; Floyd, M. W. & Esfandiari, B. Use of Fuzzy Histograms to Model the Spatial Distribution of Objects in Case-Based Reasoning. 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008, Windsor, Canada, May 28-30, 2008, 72-83.
  • (2008) Floyd, M.W.; Esfandiari, B. & Lam, K. A Case-based Reasoning Approach to Imitating RoboCup Players. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA, May 15-17, 2008, 251-256.
  • (2007) Gagnon F., Esfandiari B. and Bertossi L. A Hybrid Approach to Operating System Discovery using Answer Set Programming - In Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'07), 391-400
  • (2007) Gangadharan, G. R., Weiss, M., Esfandiari, B., and D'Andrea, V. A Feature Interaction View of License Conflicts - International Conference on Feature Interactions (ICFI'07), pp. 25-37.
  • (2007) Kassim A., Esfandiari B., Majumdar S., and Serghi L. A Flexible Hybrid Architecture for Management of Distributed Web Service Registries - Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR'07), pp.311-313 (poster session)
  • (2006) Arthorne N. and Esfandiari B. Peer-to-peer Data Integration with Distributed Bridges - Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research pp. 174-188
  • (2006) Lam K., Esfandiari B., and Tudino D. A Scene-Based Imitation Framework for Robo Cup Clients - Proceedings of the AAAI 2006 Workshop on Modeling Others from Observation (MOO'06)
  • (2006) Massicotte F., Gagnon F., Couture M., Labiche Y., and Briand L. Automatic Evalaution of Intrusion Detection Systems - In Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • (2006) Weiss M., Oreshkin A., and Esfandiari B. Offline Detection of Functional Feature Interactions of Web Services - Proceedings of Montreal Conference on eTechnologies (MCeTech'06), pp. 129-136.
  • (2005) Chandrasekharan, S., Esfandiari, E., and Hassan, T. The Advantages of the Signaling Strategy in a Dynamic Environment: Cognitive Modeling Using Robo Cup - Robo Cup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. LNCS 4020, pp. 665-672.
  • (2005) Esfandiari, B., Nock, R. Adaptive Filtering of Advertisements on Web Pages - Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2005. (Special interest tracks and posters)
  • (2005) 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 (BSN’05) held at EEE-05, Hong Kong, China, March 29, 2005, pp.44-51.
  • (2005) Nock, R., Esfandiari, B. On-Line Adaptive Filtering of Web Pages - in Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005, 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, LNCS 3721, pp.634-642 (short paper)
  • (2005) Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B. Towards a System for Web Service Composition Management - in Proc. of the 11th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Paris, France, June 21-23, 2004. (Extension)
  • (2005) Tosic, V., Ma, W., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Lutfiyya, H. Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring of Web Service Offerings - accepted for publication in the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC) special issue on Business Services Networks, Idea Group, 2005. (Extension of: 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 (BSN’05) held at EEE-05, Hong Kong, China, March 29, 2005, pp.44-51)
  • (2005) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. Analytical Comparisons of Switching of Web Services and Switching of Service Offerings - accepted for publication in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) special issue on Web Services, Business Process, and Services Science, Inderscience, 2005.
  • (2005) Weiss M. and Esfandiari B. Patterns for Negotiating Actors - Euro Plop 2005
  • (2005) Weiss M., Esfandiari B., and Luo Y. Towards a Classification of Web Service Feature Interactions - Proceedings of ACM's 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'05), LNCS 3826, pp.101-114
  • (2005) Weiss M., Oreshkin, A, and Esfandiari B. Invocation Order Matters: Functional Feature Interactions of Web Services - Proceedings of ICSOC'05s Workshop on Engineering Service Compositions, pp.69-76
  • (2004) Chandrasekharan, S., Esfandiari, B., Arthorne, N. Why Soccer Players Yell: Using RoboCup 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.
  • (2004) Esfandiari, B., Tosic, V. Requirements for Web Service Composition Management - in Proc. of the 11th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Paris, France, June 21-23, 2004.
  • (2004) Esfandiari, B., Tosic, V. Requirements for Web Service Composition Management - 11th HP-OVUA 2004 Workshop.
  • (2004) Hassan, T., Esfandiari, B. ITAS and the Reverse Robo Cup Challenge - Robo Cup International Symposium 2004, poster session. (30 full + 38 poster/118)
  • (2004) Tosic, V., Ma, W., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. Web Services Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) - A Management Infrastructure for XML Web Services - To be publ. in Proc. of NOMS (IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2004, Seoul, South Korea, April 19-23, 2004, IEEE, 2004
  • (2004) 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. (An early version of this paper was published as the research report SCE-03-19 (the final NOMS 2004 version is shorter than this research report, but it also contains some updates and additions requested by referees).)
  • (2004) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. 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) Weiss, M., Esfandiari, B. On Feature Interactions in Web Services and their Detection - to appear in Proceedings of ICWS 2004 (IEEE International Conference on Web Services). 66/230
  • (2003) Arthorne, N., Esfandiari, B., Mukherjee, A. 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
  • (2003) Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W., Pagurek, B. On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services - 10th Annual Workshop of HP-OVUA, 2003 Geneva
  • (2003) Tosic, V., Ma, W., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services - In Proc. of the 10th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, July 6-9, 2003.
  • (2003) Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. 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) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. 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) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. 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
  • (2003) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. 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) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) - Information Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 7 (special issue with the best CAiSE’03 papers), pp. 564-586. (Extension)
  • (2003) Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. 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.
  • (2002) Mukherjee, A., Esfandiari, B., Arthorne, N. 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.
  • (2002) Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services - CAiSE 2002 Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES).
  • (2002) Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services - 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) Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. 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) Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B., Patel, K. Management of Compositions of E- and M-Business Web Services with Multiple Classes of Service - in Proceedings of NOMS (IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2002, Florence, Italy, April 15-19, 2002, IEEE, pp.935 -937, 2002.
  • (2002) Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. 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) White T., Pagurek B., and Deugo D., 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) White T., Pagurek B., and Deugo D., 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) White T., Pagurek B., and Deugo D., 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) White T., Pagurek B., and Deugo D., 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) Esfandiari, B., Chandrasekharan, S. 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.
  • (2001) Feng, N., Gang, A., White, T., Pagurek, B. Dynamic Evolution of Network Management Software by Software Hot-Swapping - In Proc. of the Seventh IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2001), Seattle, May 14-18, 2001, pp. 63-76.
  • (2001) Luo, J., Pagurek, B. Context Transfer in Wireless Mobile Networks - CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2001, Ottawa, October 10-11, 2001.
  • (2001) Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. A Runtime Composite Service Creation and Deployment Infrastructure and Its Applications in Internet Security, E-commerce, and Software Provisioning - Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2001), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 8-12, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.371-376.
  • (2001) Pagurek, B. Deployment of Features in IP Telephony - CITO/OCRI TechTalk Workshop on Enhanced Services for Voice-Over-IP, Ottawa, April 17, 2001.
  • (2001) Tan, L., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B. The Swap Box: A Test Container and a Framework for Hot-swappable Java Beans - Sixth International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, 2001.
  • (2001) Tan, L., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B. The SwapBox: A Test Container and a Framework for Hot-swappable JavaBeans - In Proc.of the WCOP (Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming) workshop (at ECOOP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, June 19, 2001.
  • (2001) Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems - in Proceedings of the WOOBS'01 (Workshop on Object-Oriented Business Solutions) workshop (at ECOOP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, June 18, 2001, pp. 95-108, 2001.
  • (2001) Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. Software Configuration Management Related to Management of Distributed Systems and Services and Advanced Service Creation - in Proceedings of the SCM-10 (Tenth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management) workshop (at ICSE 2001), Toronto, Canada, May 2001.
  • (2000) Chandrasekharan, S., Esfandiari, B. Software Agents and Situatedness: Being Where? - Proceedings of the Eleventh Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, AAAI Press, 2000, pp 29-32.
  • (2000) Mennie D., Pagurek B. An Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Service Components - 5th International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, WCOP 2000, Cannes, France, June 12, 2000.
  • (2000) Pagurek B., Tang J., White T., Glitho R. Management of Advanced Services in H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony - Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2000, Tel Aviv, April 2000.
  • (2000) Pagurek B., Wang Y., and White T. Integration of Mobile Agents with SNMP: Why and How - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2000, Honolulu, April 10, 2000.
  • (2000) Pagurek B., Wang Y., White T. Integration of Mobile Agents with SNMP: Why and How - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2000, Honolulu, April 10, 2000.

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