# Fariba Sadri

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# Selected Bibliography

# Professional Activities

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

f.sadri@imperial.ac.uk

Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies:

MSc Computing

MSc Computing (Specialisms):

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Management Science

Distributed Systems

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Visual Information Processing

MSc Advanced Computing

See here for all MSc and MRes course information.

Senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.

Member of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence research area.

## Professional Activities

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Current and recent Program Committee memberships:

· The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT) 2010, 2011, 2012

- The International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

· The International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) 2010, 2011, 2012

· Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

· Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012

· International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2009, 2010

- Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA) 2009
- Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA) 2010, 2011, 2012

· Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

· International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2006, 2007

- IADIS 2007, International Conference Intelligent Systems and Agents 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
- International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (ICCIIS'07), London, UK 2007
- 5th International Conference on Service Systems and Service management (ICSSM), 2008, Melbourne, Australia
- Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications, 13th Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial, EPIA 2007, Portugal
- Workshop on Search Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction, 13th Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial, EPIA 2007, Portugal
- ESAW 07, 8th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World, Oct 22-24, Athens, Greece
- ASAMI 2007, Symposium on Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence, AISB Convention
- ISA2006, IADIS Intelligent Systems and Agents 2006 conference

Member of the co-ordination/steering committee of:

· HAI, Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence 2007- 2012

· CLIMA, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, 2000 – 2011

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

I am

· Guest editor of The Computer Journal Special Issue on Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

- 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.

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## Selected Bibliography

Kowalski, R. and Sadri, F.: Towards a Logic-Based Framework for Computing, submitted June 2013

Kowalski, R. and Sadri, F.: Towards a Logic-Based Unifying Framework for Computing, submitted January 2013

## Sadri, Fariba, Wang, Weikun, Xafi, Afroditi, A Clustering Approach to Intention Recognition, to appear Human Aspects of Ambient Intelligence (2012)

## Sadri, Fariba, Wang, Weikun, Xafi, Afroditi, Intention Recognition with Clustering, to appear Ambient Intelligence (2012)

## Kowalski, R. and Sadri, F.: A Logic-Based Framework for Reactive Systems, to appear RuleML (2012)

Kowalski, R. and Sadri, F.: Teleo-Reactive Abductive Logic Programs, to appear (2012)

Kowalski, R. and Sadri, F.: Programming with Logic without Logic Programming (2012)

Sadri, F: Intention Recognition in Agents for Ambient Intelligence: Logic-Based Approaches, to appear (2012)

R. A. Kowalski, F. Sadri

Abductive Logic Programming Agents with Destructive Databases, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 129-158 (2011).

F. Sadri

Ambient Intelligence, A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 43, Issue Number 4, December 2011.

F. Sadri

Intention Recognition with Event Calculus Graphs and Weight of Evidence, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, January 2011, ed. J. Filipe, Springer, 2011.

F. Sadri

Intention Recognition with Event Calculus Graphs. pdf

In Proceedings of Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI 2010), August 2010, Toronto, Canada

F. Sadri

Logic-based Approaches to Intention Recognition, pdf

In Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence: Trends and Perspectives, 2010

R. A. Kowalski, F. Sadri

An Agent Language with Destructive Assignment and Model-Theoretic Semantics. pdf

In Proceedings of CLIMA 2010 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems 2010.

F. Sadri, Ken Satoh

Logic Programming in Multi-Agent Systems,

Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 3, May 2010, 429-439

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

M. Fisher, F. Sadri, M. Thielscher (eds.), Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, 9th International Workshop, CLIMA IX, Dresden, Germany, September 29-30, 2008. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol. 5405 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-02733, 2009.

F. Sadri and K. Satoh (eds.), Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, 8th International Workshop, CLIMA VIII, Porto, Portugal, September 10-11, 2007. Revised Selected and Invited Papers . Vol. 5056 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. x + 299 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-540-88832-1, 2008.

F. Sadri

Intention Recognition with Event Calculus Graphs and Weight of Evidence, Report April 2010.

R. A. Kowalski, F. Sadri

Towards A Logic-Based Production System language, Report 2009 pdf

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

The CIFF Proof Procedure for Abductive Logic Programming with constraints: Theory, Implementation and Experiments, 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, 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.
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
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

P. Torroni, P. Mello, N. Maudet, M. Alberti, A. Ciampolini, E. Lamma, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
A logic-based approach to modelling interaction among computees (preliminary report),
Proc. UKMAS 2002

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Conditions for optimal outcome of negotiations about resources,
Proc. UKMAS 2002 (panel)

U. Endriss, N. Maudet, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Communication protocols for logic-based agents,
Proc. UKMAS 2002 (poster)

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
A multi-stage negotiation architecture for sharing resources amongst logic-based agents (extended abstract) ,
Proc. UKMAS 2002 (poster)

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Resource reallocation via negotiation through abductive logic programming,
Proc. JELIA 2002, Springer Verlag LNAI 2424, pp 419-431

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni,
Dialogues for Negotiation: Agent Varieties and Dialogue Sequences ,
Proc. ATAL'01, International workshop on Agents, theories, architectures and languages, J.J. Maher ed., and "Intelligent Agents VIII", LNAI 2333, 405-421, Springer Verlag, 2001.

F. Sadri, F. Toni, P. Torroni, Logic Agents, Dialogue, Negotiation - an Abductive Approach,
Proc. AISB Symposium on Information Agents for E-commerce, M. Schroeder, K. Stathis eds, 2001

F. Sadri, F.Toni, I.Xanthakos,
A Logic-Agent based System for Semantic Integration,
17th International CODATA Conference- Data and Information for the Coming Knowledge Millennium, CODATA 2000 Theme I-3, Integration of Heterogeneous Databases and Data Warehousing.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Abduction with Negation as Failure for Active and Reactive Rules, ,
E. Lamma and P. Mello eds., Springer Verlag LNAI 1792, pages 49-60 (2000)

F. Sadri , F. Toni,
Computational Logic and Multi-agent Systems: a Roadmap, Technical Report, December 1999.

P. Dell'Acqua, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Communicating Agents,
Proc. International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming, in conjunction with ICLP'99, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 30 November 1999.

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Abduction with Negation as Failure for Active Databases and Agents ,
Proc. AI*IA 99, 6th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, E. Lamma and P. Mello eds., Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, Italy, pages 353-362 (1999)
Revised version: Abduction with Negation as Failure for Active and Reactive Rules, ,
E. Lamma and P. Mello eds., Springer Verlag LNAI 1792, pages 49-60 (2000)

P. Dell'Acqua, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Combining Introspection and Communication with Rationality and Reactivity in Agents ,
Proc. JELIA'98, 6th European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, U. Furbach and L. Farinas del Cerro eds., Springer Verlag LNAI 1489, pages 17-32 (1998)

R.A. Kowalski, F. Sadri, F.Toni,
An Agent Architecture that Combines Backward and Forward Reasoning,
Proc. CADE-15 Workshop on Strategies in Automated Deduction, B. Gramlich and F. Pfenning eds., pages 49-56 (1998)
http://www.logic.at/staff/gramlich/cade15-ws-strategies.html

F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Active Behaviour in Deductive Databases, Technical Report (1996)

R.A. Kowalski, F. Sadri,
From Logic Programming towards Multi-agent Systems,
In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Volume 25, pages 391-419 (1999)

R.A. Kowalski, F. Sadri,
From Logic Programming to Multi-agent Systems ,
Submitted October 1998

P. Dell'Acqua, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
Combining Introspection and Communication with Rationality and Reactivity in Agents ,
Proc. JELIA'98, 6th European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, U. Furbach and L. Farinas del Cerro eds., LNAI, Springer Verlag, (1998)

R.A. Kowalski, F. Sadri, F. Toni,
An Agent Architecture that Combines Backward and Forward Reasoning,
Proc. CADE-15 Workshop on Strategies in Automated Deduction, B. Gramlich and F. Pfenning eds., pages 49-56 (1998)
http://www.logic.at/staff/gramlich/cade15-ws-strategies.html

Sadri F and Toni F,
Active Behaviour in Deductive Databases,
Technical Report, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London(1998)

R. Kowalski and F. Sadri,
An Agent Architecture that Unifies Rationality with Reactivity,
Department of Computing, Imperial College (1997)

Kowalski R and Sadri F,
Reconciling the event calculus with the situation calculus,
Journal of Logic Programming, special issue on reasoning about action and change, 1997, Vol. 31, 39-58.

R. Kowalski, F. Sadri, Towards a unified agent architecture that combines rationality with reactivity,
In: Proc. International Workshop on Logic in Databases, San Miniato, Italy, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1154 (1996)

Sadri F and Kowalski R,
Variants of the event calculus,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming, Kanagawa, Japan, Stirling L. (Ed), The MIT Press, June 1995, 67-81.

Kowalski R and Sadri F,
The situation calculus and event calculus compared,
Proceedings of the International Logic Programming Symposium, Ithaca, New York, Bruynooghe M. (Ed), The MIT Press, November 1994, 539-553.

Kowalski R and Sadri F,
Logic programs with exceptions,
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Logic Programming, Jerusalem, Israel, Warren D. H. and Szeredi P. (Eds), The MIT Press, June 1990, 598-613.