Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:


T Lei, C Luo, JE Ball, S Rahimi, "A graph-based ant-like approach to optimal path planning," IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC), 2020. [2020-5]

SB Ramezani, A Sommers, HK Manchukonda, S Rahimi, A Amirlatifi, "Machine learning algorithms in quantum computing: A survey," International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), IEEE, 2020. [2020-4]

HK Manchukonda, S Rahimi, A Sommers, S Bozorgzad, J Ma, "A study of emergency department patient admittance predictors," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE, 2020. [2020-3]

RK Raj, CJ Romanowski, J Impagliazzo, SG Aly, BA Becker, J Chen, S. Rahimi, "High performance computing education: Current challenges and future directions," Proceedings of ACM Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ACM, pp. 51-74, 2020. [2020-2]

R. K. Raj, C. J Romanowski, S. I. Gordon, C. Izu, S. Rahimi, M. P. Robson, "Toward High Performance Computing Education," Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ACM, pp. 504-505, 2020.

K. T. Baghaei, S. Rahimi, “Sepsis Prediction: An Attention-Based Interpretable Approach,” proceedings of IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Press, pp. XXX-XXX, 2019. [806]

J. Pourkia, S. Rahimi, K. T. Baghaei, “Hospital Data Interpretation: A Self-Organizing Map Approach,”proceedings of International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Springer, pp. 493-504, 2019. [805]

M. K. Kopuru, S. Rahimi, K. T. Baghaei, “Recent Approaches in Prognostics: State of the Art,” proceedings of 21st International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’19), Las Vegas, pp. 358-365, 2019.  [804]

H. Kumar, S. Rahimi, A. Sommers, S. Bozorgzad, and A. Stephens, Predictive, “Predictive Analytics for Left Without Treatment in the Emergency,” proceedings of The 5th Int'l Conf on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'19), pp. 97-101, 2019. [803]

M. McCoy, S. Rahimi, “Towards a Twitter-Based Prediction Tool for Digital Currency,” proceedings of 21st International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’19), Las Vegas, pp. 305-311, 2019. [802]

N. Marhamati, E. Khorasani, S. Rahimi,” Integration of Z-numbers and Bayesian decision theory: A hybrid approach to decision making under uncertainty and imprecision,” Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 72, pp. 273-290, 2018. [511]

B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, H. Hexmoor, S. Rahimi, K. Maddali, G. Hu, "Design of Very Efficient Lookup Algorithms for a Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network," proceedings of IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2018), Porto, Portugal, July 18-20, 2018. [801] 

M. R. Khoie, T. S. Tabrizi, E. Sahebkar, S. Rahimi, N. Marhamati, “A Hospital Recommendation System based on Patient Satisfaction Survey,” Smart Healthcare Special Issue, Applied Sci., Vol. 7, Issue 10, pp. 966-990, 2017.  [510]

P. Patel, E.S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, “Modeling and implementation of Z-number,” Soft Computing Journal, Springer, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp.1341-1364, 2016. [508]

S. Rahimi, C. R. Spiess, B. Gupta, E. Sahebkar, “Towards utilization of neurofuzzy systems for taxonomic identification using psittacines as a case study,” Applied Computation Intelligence and Soft Computing, Vol. 2016, Article ID 6798905, 13 pages, 2016. [509]

B. Gupta, S. Koneru, S. Rahimi, “LSR-Based Core Selection in Shared Tree Multicasting,” International Journal for Computers & Their Applications, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 2015.

N. Marhamati, S. Rahimi, P. Patel, E. Khorasano, "An Evaluation of Retranslation Methods in Computing with Words,” Second review, Soft Computing Journal, Springer, Vol. 18, Issue 10, pp. 2061-2073, 2014. [507] 

S. Sohangar, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “NeuroEvolutionary Feature Selection Using NEAT,” Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, Vol.7, No.7, pp. 562-571, 2014. [506]

Z. Eftekhari, S. Rahimi, “Preana: Game Theory Based Prediction with Reinforcement Learning,” Natural Science, Scientific Research, Vol 6, No. 12, pp. 1108-1121, 2014. [501]

B. Gupta, S. Koneru, S. Rahimi, “A Highly Efficient RPF-Based Broadcast Protocol Using A New Two-level Pruning Mechanism,” Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier, Vol. 5, Issue 4, July 2014, pp. 645–652, 2014. [505]

B. Gupta, S. Koneru, S. Rahimi, “A Novel Approach for Core Selection in Shared Tree Multicasting,” International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 366-370, 2014. [504]

P. Patel, N. Carver, S. Rahimi, “Bootstrapping learning from abstract models in games,” Int. Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Inderscience, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 239-251, 2013. [503]

E.S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, “Formalization of Generalized Constraint Language: A Crucial Prelude to Computing with Words,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 246-258, 2013. [1]

E.S. Khorasani, P. Patel, S. Rahimi, H. Houle, “An Inference Engine Toolkit for Computing with Words”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Special Issue on Knowledge-intensive Fusion for Context Awareness, to appear, 2013. [-3]

P. Patel, C. Langin, F. Yu, and S. Rahimi, “Network Intrusion Detection Types and Computation,” International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), Vol. 10, No.1, 2012

S. Rahimi, R. A. S. Rias, E.S. Khorasani, “An Open-Bisimilarity Based Automated Verification Tool for Pi-Calculus Family of Process Calculi,” International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 55-83, 2012. [-4]

E.S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, “Constraint Propagation Tree for the Realization of a CW Question Answering System”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice, Vol. 6, No.2, pp. 75-87, December 2011. [-2]

K. Patsias, M. Rahimi, Y. Sheng, S. Rahimi, “Parallel Computing with a Bayesian Item Response Model,” American Journal of Computational Mathematics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 65–71, 2012. [502]

P.D. Robles-Granda, E.S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, N. Carver, “Deadlock Verification of a DPS Coordination Strategy and its Alternative Model in Pi-Calculus,” International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.154-179, 2011. [2]

S. Bishop, H. Okhravi, S. Rahimi and Y. C. Lee, “Covert-Channel Resistant Information Leakage Protection using a Multi Agent Architecture,” Journal of IET Information Security, Vol.4, Issue 4, pp. 233 – 247, 2011. [3]

C. Langin, M. Wainer, S. Rahimi, “ANNaBell Island: A 3D Color Hexagonal SOM for Visual Intrusion Detection,” International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2011. [4]

S. Rahimi, E.S. Khorasani, Y.C. Lee, B. Gupta, “An Extension to Pi-Calculus for Performance Evaluation,” Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9-17, January 2011. [5]

Y. Lee, S. Rahimi, S. Harvey, “A Pre-Kernel Agent Platform for Security Assurance,” in proceedings of SSCI 2011 IA - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, IEEE Press, pp. 1-7, Paris, France, April 2011. [53]

A. Kulis, S. Rahimi, Y. Lee, “Finding Danger using Fuzzy Dendritic Cells,” Procedings of SSCI 2011 HIMA - 2011 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications, pp. 21-27, Paris, France, April 2011. [54]

P. Patel, N. Carver and S. Rahimi, “Tuning Computer Gaming Agents using Q-Learning,” proceedings of Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation VIII, FedCSIS 2011 Szczecin, Poland, pp. 583-590, September, 2011. [79]

E. S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, P. Patel and D. Houle, “CWJESS: An Expert System Shell for Computing with Words,” proceedings of the 6th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, FedCSIS 2011 Szczecin, Poland, pp. 33-39, 2011. [80]

H. Akbari, B. Zhang, M. Sayeh, M. K. Mohanty and S. Rahimi, “Application of Neural Network for Modeling the Coal Cleaning Performance of The FGX Dry Separator”, Yoon Symposium, SME 2011, Denver, Co, USA, Feb 28th  to March 2nd , 2011. [81]

R. Nikolaev, B. Gupta, Z. Liu, S. Rahimi, N. Debnath, “NPR – A New QoS-Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,” Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1,2, Supplement 1, pp. 203-213, 2010. [6]

C. Langin, S. Rahimi, “Soft computing in intrusion detection: the state the art,” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Human Computing (Springer), Vol.1, No. 2, pp. 133-145, June 2010. [7]

C. Langin, D. Che, M. Wainer, S. Rahimi, “SOM with Vulture Fest Model Discovers Feral Malware and Visually Profiles the Security of Subnets,” International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, pp. 241-249, Vol. 17, No. 4, Dec. 2010. [8]

B. Gupta, N. Debnath, S. Rahimi, V. Videm, K. Ethirajan, “A Novel QoS-Based Broadcasting Scheme for Wide Area Networks,” Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1,2, Supplement 2, pp. 203-213, 2010. [9]

E. S. Khorasani and S. Rahimi, “Towards and Automated Reasoning for Computing with Words,” proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (FUZZ-IEEE10), IEEE Press, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1-8, July 2010. [55]

S. Rahimi, Y. C. Lee, M. Zargham, “An Agent-Based Architecture for High Performance Computing over the Internet,” proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Rome, Italy, pp.432-444, 2010. [82]

A. Gordon, I. Belik, S. Rahimi “A Hybrid Expert System for IT Security Risk Assessment,” proceedings of The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'10), Las Vegas, pp. 430-434, 2010. [83]

Y. C. Lee, S. Rahimi, and B. Gupta, “Recourse Constraint Mobile Agent Framework for Ambient Intelligence,” proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Rome, Italy, pp.699-706, 2010. [84]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, N. C. Debnath, D. S. Videm, K. Ethirajan, “A High Performance Roll Forward Recovery Algorithm for Ring Networks,” CATA 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, March, pp. 138-141, 2010. [85]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, Z. Liu, N. C. Debnath, “Pseudo Diameter-Based Pruning - A QOS Based Broadcasting for Wide Area Networks,” CATA 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, March, pp. 142-146, 2010. [86]

C. Langin, H. Zhou, S. Rahimi, M. Zargham and B. Gupta, “A Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and its Modeling for Discovering Malignant Network Traffic,” proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 122-129, March 2009. [56]

Y. Lee, S. Bishop, H. Okhravi, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “Information Leakage Detection in Distributed Systems using Software Agent,” proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 128-135, March 2009. [57]

E. S. Khorasani, N. Carver, S. Rahimi, “Performance Evaluation of DPS Coordination Strategies Modeled in Pi-Calculus,” International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Vol.3, No.4, pp. 419-439, 2009.[10]

S. Rahimi, R. Tatikunta, R. Ahmad, B. Gupta, “A Multi-Agent Framework for Stock Trading,” International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 203-227(25), May 2009. [11]

R. Ahmad, S. Rahimi, “Motivation for a new formal framework for agent-oriented software engineering,” International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 3, Nos. 2/3, pp. 252-276, 2009. [12]

H. Hexmoor, S. Rahimi, J. T. Little, “Coordinated UAV Manoeuvring Flight Formation,”  Informatica, Vol. 33, pp. 375-383, 2009. [13]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, “A Novel Low-Overhead recovery Approach for Distributed Systems,” Journal of Computer Systems, networks, and Communications, Vol. 2009, Article ID 409873, pp. 1-8, 2009. [14]

 “A Reasoning Methodology for CW-Based Question Answering Systems,” E. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, and B. Gupta, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book title: Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Vol. 5571, pp. 328-335, 2009. [43]

“A Generic Mobile Agent Framework towards Ambient Intelligence,” Y. Lee, E. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, S. Nulu, Springer-Verlag, book title: Knowledge Processing & Decision Making in Agent-Based Systems, Edited by: L. C. Jain & N. T. Nguyen, pp. 175-192, 2009. [44]

"A Methodology for Ontological Mediation in Multi-Agent Systems," S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, P. Rana, the IGI Global publication, E-Government Diffusion, Policy, and Impact: Advanced Issues and Practices, edited by Dr. Khosrow-Pour, pp. 246-267, 2009. [45]

“Novel Crash Recovery Approach for Concurrent Failures in Cluster Federation,” B. Gupta and S. Rahimi, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book title: Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing Vol. 5529/ 2009, pp.434-445, 2009. [46]

K. Patsias, Y. Sheng, S. Rahimi, “A High Performance Gibbs Sampling Algorithm for Item Response Theory,” proceedings of the ISCA 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, Louisville, Kentucky, pp. 31-36, 2009. [87]

C. Langin, D. Che, M. Wainer, S. Rahimi, “Visualization of Network Security Traffic using Hexagonal Self-Organizing Maps,” proceedings of the ISCA 22nd International Conference on Computer Application and Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2009), San Francisco, CA, pp. 1-6, 2009. [88]

E. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “A Reasoning Methodology for CW-based Question answering Systems,” proceedings of the International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2009), Palermo, Italy, pp. 328-335,  2009. [89]

B. Gupta, S. R. Sivada, S. Rahimi, S. T. Adusumalli, “A Novel Bandwidth- Efficient Multicasting Protocol for Wide Area Networks,” proceedings of CATA-2009, New Orleans, pp. 191-197, April, 2009. [90]

B. Gupta, D. Che, S. Rahimi, “A Novel Recovery Approach for Distributed Systems,” proceedings of CATA-2009, New Orleans, pp. 198-203, April, 2009. [91]

B. Gupta, S.T. Adusumalli, S. Rahimi, S. R. Sivada, “An Improved Bandwidth-Efficient Multicasting Protocol for WANs,” proceedings of International Conference of Wireless Networks (ICWN’09), pp. 455-461, Las Vegas, July, 2009. [92]

A. Vutukuru, B. Gupta, N. Mogharreban, S. Rahimi and L. Tallam, “A Domino-Effect Free Recovery Mechanism for Mobile Computing Environment,” proceedings ofInternational Conference of Wireless Networks (ICWN’09), pp. 361-367, Las Vegas, July, 2009. [93]

S. Rahimi, P. Rana, R. Ahmad, B. Gupta, “Ontology Mediation for Multi Agent Systems,” International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 68-88, 2008. [15]

B. Gupta, Z. Liu, S. Rahimi, “Design of High Performance Distributed Snapshot/Recovery Algorithms for Ring Networks,” Journal of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 23-33, 2008. [16]

S. Rahimi, R. Ahmad, “ACVisualizer: A Visualization Tool for API–Calculus,” Multi-Agent and Grid Systems, an International Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 271-291, 2008. [17]

H. Hexmoor, S. Rahimi, R. Chandran, “Delegations Guided by Trust and Autonomy,” Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, An International Journal, Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 137-156, 2008. [18]

“Domino-Effect Free Crash Recovery for Concurrent Failures in Cluster Federation,” B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, V. Allam, and V. Jupally, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book title: Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5036, pp. 4-17, 2008. [47]

C. Langin, H. Zhou, S. Rahimi, “A Model to Use Denied Internet Traffic to Indirectly Discover Internal Network Security Problems,” proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing, and CommunicationsConference, Austin, Texas, pp. 486-490, 2008. [58]

C. Tsivopoulos, J. Siddiqi, B. Akhgar, S. Rahimi, M. Bassir, “An Overlay Discovery Algorithm towards a Pure Distributed Communication System,” proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generation, IEEE Press, Las Vegas, pp. 212-217, 2008. [59]

Y. Lee, E. S. Khorasani, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “A Generic Mobile Agent Framework for Ambient Intelligence,” proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM-SAC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March, pp. 1866-1871, 2008. [60]

“A Novel Recovery approach for Cluster Federations,” B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, R. Ahmad, and R. Chirra, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book title: Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4459, pp. 519-530, 2007.[48]

S. Rahimi, M. Wainer, D. Lewis, “A Performance and Programming Analysis of Java Communication Mechanisms in a Distributed Environment,” Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol. 8, No. 2,  pp. 209–226, 2007.[19]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, and Y. Yang, “A Novel Roll-back Mechanism for Performance Enhancement of Asynchronous Checkpointing and Recovery,” Informatica  journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.1-13, 2007. [20]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, and Z. Liu, “A Novel Low-Overhead Roll-Forward Recovery Scheme for Distributed Systems,” IET Computers and Digital Techniques (former IEE journal), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 397-403, 2007. [21]

S. Rahimi, G. Nagaraja, B. Gupta, and L. Gandy, “An Expert System for Analysis of Consistency Criteria in Checkpointing Algorithms,” Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol. 8, No. 2,  pp.197–208, 2007. [22]

S. Rahimi, N. Mogharreban, L. Gandy, C. J. Roberts, “A Web Based High Performance Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Medical Diagnosis,” International Journal of Intelligent Systems, WILEY, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp.1083-1099, 2007. [23]

S. Rahimi, H. Hexmoor, B. Gupta, “Radical Agent-Based Approach for Intelligence Analysis,” proceedings of IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, pp. 186-191, May 2007. [61]

R. Ahmad, Y. Lee, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “A Multi-Agent Based Approach for Particle Swarm Optimization,” proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS '07), Waltham, Massachusetts, pp. 261-271, May 2007. [62]

R. Ahmad, S. Rahimi, B. Gupta, “An Intelligence-Aware Process Calculus for Multi-Agent System Modeling,” proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems(KIMAS '07), Waltham, Massachusetts, pp. 210-215, May 2007. [63]

B. Gupta, S. Rahimi , R. Jandhyala, and V. Doraiswamy, “ A Low-Overhead DVR Based Multicast Routing Protocol for Clustered MANET ,” a Special Issue of Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (JCMSE) , Vol. 6, No. 5 & 6, pp. 135-146, 2006. [24]