Contact Information Pratt Building, Room 263 (KR lab) Mail address: Department of Computer Science Graduate Student Room 3302 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, CANADA Email: shirin[at]cs[dot]utoronto[dot]ca

PhD Candidate under supervision of Sheila McIlraith (AAAI Fellow)
Knowledge Representation Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Research

• Modeling and reasoning about Semantic Web Services, in particular web service discovery, composition, and monitoring
• Planning with preferences and temporally extended goals
• Preference-based planning in Hierarchical Task Networks
• Characterization of diagnosis of discrete dynamical systems, and its relationship to planning

Publications

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2012 (2)
Composition of Flow-based Applications with HTN Planning. Sohrabi, S.; Udrea, O.; Ranganathan, A.; and Riabov, A. 2012. In International Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK). To appear. This paper is also appearing in the AAAI-12 Workshop on Problem Solving using Classical Planners (CP4PS) Bibtex Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase. Xin, R. S.; Hassanzadeh, O.; Fritz, C.; Sohrabi, S.; and Miller, R. J. 2012. Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, IOS Press. Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase Bibtex
2011 (2)
Preferred Explanations: Theory and Generation via Planning. Sohrabi, S.; Baier, J. A.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2011. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), 261-267, San Francisco, USA, August. Accepted as both oral and poster presentation Preferred Explanations: Theory and Generation via Planning. Bibtex Representing and reasoning about preferences in requirements engineering. Liaskos, S.; McIlraith, S. A.; Sohrabi, S.; and Mylopoulos, J. 2011. Requirements Engineering, 16:227-249. 10.1007/s00766-011-0129-9 Representing and reasoning about preferences in requirements engineering Bibtex
2010 (5)
Diagnosis as Planning Revisited. Sohrabi, S.; Baier, J. A.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2010. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-10), 26-36, Toronto, Canada, May. An abridged version of this paper appears in International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-10). Diagnosis as Planning Revisited Bibtex Integrating Preferences into Goal Models for Requirements Engineering. Liaskos, S.; McIlraith, S. A.; Sohrabi, S.; and Mylopoulos, J. 2010. In Proceedings of the 10th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-10), 135-144, Sydney, Australia, September. Integrating Preferences into Goal Models for Requirements Engineering Bibtex Customizing the Composition of Actions, Programs, and Web Services with User Preferences. Sohrabi, S. 2010. In Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10) Doctoral Consortium, 321-329, Shanghai, China, November. Won best paper award. Customizing the Composition of Actions, Programs, and Web Services with User Preferences. Bibtex Preference-based Web Service Composition: A Middle Ground Between Execution and Search. Sohrabi, S., and McIlraith, S. A. 2010. In Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), 713-729, Shanghai, China, November. Preference-based Web Service Composition: A Middle Ground Between Execution and Search Bibtex Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase. Xin, R. S.; Hassanzadeh, O.; Fritz, C.; Sohrabi, S.; Yang, Y.; Du, J.; Zhao, M.; and Miller, R. J. 2010. In Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), Poster & Demo Track, Shanghai, China, November. Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase Bibtex
2009 (3)
HTN Planning with Preferences. Sohrabi, S.; Baier, J. A.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2009. In Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 1790 --1797, Pasadena, CA, USA, July. This paper also appears in Commonsense 2009. HTN Planning with Preferences Bibtex Optimizing Web Service Composition while Enforcing Regulations. Sohrabi, S., and McIlraith, S. A. 2009. In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-09), 601-617, Chantilly, VA, USA, October. Optimizing Web Service Composition while Enforcing Regulations Bibtex Web Service Composition via the Customization of Golog Programs with User Preferences. Sohrabi, S.; Prokoshyna, N.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2009. Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications: Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos, Alexander T. Borgida and Vinay K. Chaudhri and Paolo Giorgini and Eric S. Yu (eds.), 319--334, Springer-Verlag. Web Service Composition via the Customization of Golog Programs with User Preferences Bibtex Buy
2008 (3)
On Planning with Preferences in HTN. Sohrabi, S., and McIlraith, S. A. 2008. In the 12th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR08), 241-248, Sydney, Australia, September. On Planning with Preferences in HTN Bibtex On Planning with Preferences in HTN. Sohrabi, S., and McIlraith, S. A. 2008. In the 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-Pref08) at AAAI-08, 103-109, Chicago, IL, USA, July. On Planning with Preferences in HTN Bibtex HTN Planning with Quantitative Preferences via Heuristic Search. Sohrabi, S.; Baier, J. A.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2008. In Eighteeth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) Workshop on Oversubscribed Planning and Scheduling, Sydney, Australia, September. HTN Planning with Quantitative Preferences via Heuristic Search Bibtex
2006 (1)
Web Service Composition Via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences. Sohrabi, S.; Prokoshyna, N.; and McIlraith, S. A. 2006. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), 597-611, Athens, GA, USA, November. Web Service Composition Via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences Bibtex
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Honors and Awards

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2011-2012
• Best Doctoral Consortium Paper at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), Shanghai, China, Nov 2010
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2010-2011
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2009-2010
• Wolfond Fellowship,University of Toronto, 2008-2009
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2007-2008
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program (OGS), 2006-2007
• NSERC - Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), 2005 and 2006
• CRA-W Canadian Distributed Mentor Project, 2005
• Victoria Reunion Award for Academic Achievement,University of Toronto, 2004-2006
• Dean's List for Academic Achievement, University of Toronto, 2004-2006

Professional Services

• Program Committee, The AAAI-12 Workshop on Problem Solving using Classical Planners (CP4PS), 2012
• External Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011
• External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2011
• Co-organizer, DCS Symposium on Trends in Computing (TIC), held at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2010
• External Reviewer, North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI), 2010
• External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2010
• External Reviewer, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2009
• External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2009

Presentations

• A User-Centric Model of Data: Constraining and Customizing Processes.
  Presented at NSERC Business Intelligence Network (BIN) workshop at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA, February, 2012.
• Preferred Explanations: Theory and Generation via Planning.
  Presented at the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), San Francisco, USA, August, 2011.
• Preference-based Web Service Composition: A Middle Ground Between Execution and Search.
  Presented at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), Shanghai, China, Nov 2010.
• Customizing the Composition of Actions, Programs, and Web Services with User Preferences.
  Presented at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), Shanghai, China, Nov 2010.
• Diagnosis as Planning Revisited.
  Presented at the 12th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-10), Toronto, Canada, May 2010.
• Optimizing Web Service Composition while Enforcing Regulations.
  Presented at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC09), Chantilly, VA, USA, October 2009.
• HTN Planning with Preferences.
  Presented at the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, USA, July 2009.
• Customizing the Composition of Programs and Web Services with User Preferences.
  Presentation at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, December 2008.
• On Planning with Preferences in Hierarchical Task Network.
  Presentation at SRI International as part of AIC Seminar Series, October, 2008.
• On Planning with Preferences in HTN.
  Presented at the 12th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR08), Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
• On Planning with Preferences in HTN.
  Presented at the 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-Pref08) at AAAI-08, Chicago, IL, USA, July 2008.
• Web Service Composition via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences.
  Presented at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), Athens, GA, USA, November 2006.

Teaching Assistant

• Winter 2012: CSC384: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Winter 2011: CSC384: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Winter 2010: CSC384: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Winter 2008: CSC324 Principles of Programming Languages
• Fall 2007: CSC326 Programming Languages
• Fall 2006: CSC324 Principles of Programming Languages

Links

• My profile in the University of Toronto Computer Science's Website
• My ISWC-2006's presentation
• Summer 2005 CDMP experience with NSERC-USRA.