Research

Agent-based systems; network computing; object-oriented design and languages.

Application

Network supervision, autonomous robotics and the World-Wide Web.

Activities

• Editorial Board of Computational Intelligence

Program Committees:

• International Joint Conferences on Artifi cial Intelligence, IJCAI (2011)
• ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for Computer Games
• IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC (2011)
• IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, I0T (2011)
• International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, CSA (2011)
• Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, CSWS (2011)
• Conference Francophone d’Apprentissage, CFA (2011)

Recent Journal Articles

A. Davoust, B. Esfandiari, “Towards Semantically Enhanced File-Sharing”, to appear in Special Issue of Journal of Software on Semantic Extensions to Middleware (JSW, ISSN 1796-217X), 2009

F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, “A Query-Based Approach for Test Selection in Diagnosis”, to appear in Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence Review Journal on AI & Pervasive Computing, Springer, 2009.

Recent Book Contributions

F. Gagnon and B. 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.

Recent Conference Publications

M. Floyd, B. Esfandiari, “An Active Approach to Automatic Case Generation”, to appear in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Case-based Reasoning (ICCBR 2009), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer 2009.

F. Gagnon, B. Esfandiari, ””Using Contextual Information for IDS Alarm Classification””, to appear in Proceedings of Sixth Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2009.

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 1-4, 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5239, Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85501-9, pp. 195-209,

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

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