Fariba Sadri                                    


Contact Details

 

Address:       

Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, England.


Email: fs@doc.ic.ac.uk



Senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London

Member of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence research area
Course Director of MSc Computing, MSc Computing Specialist and MSc Advanced Computing


Research Interests

Broadly Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, and in particular:

·  Logic-Based Multi-Agent Systems

·  Abduction

·  Logic Programming for Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning

·  Negotiation


Professional Activities

Co-Chair of:

·         CLIMA IX "Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems",  September 2008, Dresden, Germany

·         Symposium on Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence (ASAMI), AISB Convention, Newcastle University, UK,  3 April 2007

·         CLIMA VIII "Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems",  September 2007, Porto, Portugal

·         AmITA (Ambient intelligence technologies and applications), 13th Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial, EPIA, Portugal 2007


Current and recent Program Committee memberships:

 

·         The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies 2010

·         Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence 2009

·         The Tenth International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering 2009

Member of the co-ordination/steering committee of

·         International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence 2007-2009

·         CLIMA, "Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems", 2000-2009, which has organised:

I am

·         Guest editor of The Computer Journal Special Issue on Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence, 2009.

·         Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Engineering Letters related to the International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, 2007

·         editor for the area "Multi-Agent Systems" for the Newsletter of the ALP, Association for Logic Programming.

Guest Tutorials on logic-based multi-agent systems at the:

ACAI Summer School, the 2007 Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence, Leuven, Belgium, 20-28 August 2007

ICCL International Centre for Computational Logic Summer School, Dresden, Germany, 24th August - 6th September 2008


Selected Bibliography

F. Sadri

Logic-based Approaches to Intention Recognition,  pdf

In Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence: Trends and Perspectives, IGI Global, to appear 2010

 

R. A. Kowalski, F. Sadri

Integrating Logic Programming and Production Systems in Abductive Logic Programming Agents, pdf

The 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, October 25-26, 2009, Chantilly, Virginia, USA

F. Sadri

Ambient Intelligence, A Survey, Submitted 2009

 

R. A. Kowalski, F. Sadri

Towards A Logic-Based Production System language, Submitted 2009

 

P. Mancarella, G. Terreni, F. Sadri, F. Toni, U. Endriss

The CIFF Proof Procedure for Abductive Logic Programming with constraints: Theory, Implementation and Experiments, To appear Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2009

 

F. Sadri
Multi-agent Cooperative Planning and Information Gathering, 11th International Workshop CIA 2007 on Cooperative Information Agents, September 2007, LNAI series by Springer Verlag.

F. Sadri
Multi-agent ambient intelligence for elderly care and assistance, AIP Conference Proceedings, to appear, 2007.


Giacomo Terreni, Paolo Mancarella, Francesca Toni and Fariba Sadri.
Programming Applications in CIFF,
Ninth International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2007,
Tempe, Arizona, USA, May 2007.

F. Sadri
Ambient Intelligence for Care of the Elderly in Their Homes, Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on artificial techniques for ambient intelligence (AITAmI '07), Hyderabad, India, 62-67.

 

F. Sadri and F. Toni
Information exchange amongst abductive logic-based agents,
IeCCS 2006, Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences, VSP/Brill, to appear.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
A formal analysis of KGP agents, Jelia 2006.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Interleaving belief updating and reasoning in abductive logic programming,
The 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2006.

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Negotiating socially optimal allocations of resources: an overview
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, pages 315-348, 2006.

F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni,
Normative KGP Agents,
Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory , 2006.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Variety of behaviours through profiles in logic-based agents,
Post-proceedings of CLIMA VI, LNAI 3900, Springer Verlag, 2006.

F. Sadri,
Using the KGP model of agency to design applications,
Post-proceedings of CLIMA VI, LNAI 3900, Springer Verlag, 2006.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Profiles of behaviour for Logic-based agents
Proc. CLIMA VI, 2005.

F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni,
Normative KGP Agents: A Preliminary Report,
Proc. NorMAS2005, 1st International Symposium on Normative Multi-Agent Systems, 2005 AISB convention.

A. Bracciali, N. Demetriou, U. Endriss, A. Kakas, W. Lu, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
The KGP Model of Agency for Global Computing: Computational Model and Prototype Implementation,
Global Computing 2004 Workshop, Springer Verlag LNCS 3267, 2005, p. 342

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
The SOCS project,
ALP Newsletter, August 2004

A. Kakas, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni,
The KGP model of agency,
ECAI04, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004,
IOS Press,  ISBN 1 58603 452 9, pages 33-37

A. Bracciali, N. Demetriou, U. Endriss, A. Kakas, W. Lu, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri,
K. Stathis, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
The KGP Model of Agency for Global Computing: Computational Model and Prototype Implementation,
Global Computing 2004 Workshop, Springer Verlag LNCS 3267, 2004

A.C. Kakas, P.Mancarella, F.Sadri, K.Stathis, and F.Toni,
Declarative agent control,
5th Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA V), 29-30 September 2004, J.Leite and P.Torroni, eds, pages 212-226

P.Mancarella, F.Sadri, G.Terreni, and F.Toni,
Planning partially for situated agents,
5th Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA V),
29-30 September 2004, J.Leite and P.Torroni, eds, pages 132-149

U. Endriss, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
The CIFF proof procedure for abductive logic programming with constraints,
JELIA'2004, International Conference on Logics in AI, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2004,  Springer Verlag LNAI, pages 31-43

U. Endriss, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
Abductive Logic Programming with CIFF: System description,
JELIA'2004, International Conference on Logics in AI, Lisbon, Portugal, September
2004,  Springer Verlag LNAI, pages 680-684

U. Endriss, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
Abductive Logic Programming with CIFF: Implementation and Applications,
CILC04, Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale, 16-17 June 2004, Parma, Italy

U. Endriss, P. Mancarella, F. Sadri, G. Terreni, F. Toni,
Abductive logic programming with CIFF (Extended Abstract),
11th Workshop on Automated Reasoning, Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice, University of Leeds, March 2004, B. Bennett, ed

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Logic-based Agent Communication Protocols,
In F. Dignum, editor, Advances in Agent Communication, Springer Verlag LNAI 2922, 2004, ISBN: 3-540-20769-4,
pages 91-107,Invited contribution.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
A logic-based approach to reasoning with beliefs about trust,
ARSPA04, Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocols Analysis, affiliated to IJCAR04, Cork, 4 July 2004

Ulle Endriss, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, Giacomo Terreni, and Francesca Toni.
The CIFF Proof Procedure: Definition and Soundness Results,
 Technical Report 2004, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, May 2004

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
A multi-stage negotiation architecture for sharing resources amongst logic-based agents,
Technical report, 2004

Y. Xanthakos, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
An abductive framework for semantic integration of information,
Technical Report 2004, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, September 2004

Y. Xanthakos, F. Sadri, F. Toni.
New results for the IFF abductive proof procedure,
Technical Report 2004, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, September 2004

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Negotiating socially optimal allocations of resources,
Technical Report, March 2004

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Interleaving belief revision and  reasoning, Technical Report, May 2004 

 A. Bracciali, N. Demetriou, U. Endriss, A. Kakas, E. Lamma, P. Mancarella, P. Mello, P. Moraitis, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, G. Terreni, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Deliverable D8: computational approach to (societies of) computees,
Jan 2004, EU SOCS project report, (P. Mancarella, F. Toni, A. Bracciali, eds)

M. Alberti, A. Bracciali, A. Ciampolini, F. Chesani, N. Demetriou, U. Endriss, M. Gavanelli, A. Kakas, E. Lamma,
W. Lu, P. Mancarella, P. Mello, M. Milano, F. Riguzzi, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Deliverable D9: A prototype for the animation of societies of computees,
Jan 2004, EU SOCS project report

A. Kakas, E. Lamma, P. Mancarella,  P. Mello, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni,
Deliverable D10: Technological implementation plan,
Jan 2004, SOCS project

M. Alberti,A. Bracciali, F. Chesani, U. Endriss, M. Gavanelli, A. Guerri, A. Kakas, E. Lamma, P. Mancarella, P. Mello, M. Milano,
F. Riguzzi, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, G. Terreni, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Deliverable D12: Update report: WP5-WP6,
June 2004,  EU SOCS project 
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U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni, 
On optimal outcomes of negotiations over resources,
Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2003 (AAMAS 03), p. 177-184.

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Aspects of protocol conformation in inter-agent dialogue
,
Poster, Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2003 (AAMAS 03), p. 982-983

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Protocol conformance for logic-based agents
,
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003 (IJCAI 03),  p. 679-684

F. Sadri, F. Toni. P. Torroni
Minimally intrusive negotiating agents for resource sharing
,
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003 (IJCAI 03),  p. 796-801

Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, and Francesca Toni,
Resource Allocation in Egalitarian Agent Societies
,
In A. Herzig, B. Chaib-draa, and Ph. Mathieu, editors, Secondes Journées Francophones sur les Modèles Formels d'Interaction (MFI-2003),
pages 101-110, Cépaduès-Éditions, 2003. Finalist for the Best Paper Award.

A.C. Kakas, F. Sadri, K. Stathis, F. Toni,
Deliverable D4: Formal Modelling of Computees,  June 2003, EU SOCS project report

Andrea Bracciali, Tony Kakas, Evelina Lamma, Fariba Sadri, Kostas Stathis, Francesca Toni,
Deliverable D7: Update report: WP1-WP4, 2003, EU SOCS project report

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Abductive logic programming for communication and negotiation amongst agents,
ALP Newsletter, 2003 

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Minimally intrusive negotiating agents for resource sharing,
IJCAI 2003, 18th Joint Confernce in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003, pages 769-801

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Protocol conformance for logic-based agents,
IJCAI 2003, 18th Joint Confernce in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003, pages 679-684

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Resource Allocation in Egalitarian Agent Societies,
MFI 2003 (Secondes Journées Francophones MODÈLES FORMELS de l'INTERACTION), Andreas Herzig, Brahim Chaib-draa, Philippe Mathieu, eds.,
Lille, May 2003, Cepadues-editions, pages 101-110

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
On Optimal Outcomes of Negotiations over Resources,
AAMAS2003, Second intenrational Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2003, pages 177-184

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Aspects of Protocol Conformance in Inter-agent Dialogues,
AAMAS2003 (poster), Second intenrational Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2003, pages 982-983

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Abductive logic programming for communication and negotiation amongst agents,
ALP Newsletter, May 2003


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