Shirin Sohrabi

Shirin Sohrabi Araghi

PhD Student under supervision of Sheila McIlraith
Knowledge Representation Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Contact Information

Pratt Building, Room 263 (KR lab)

mail address:

Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student
10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G4, CANADA

Email: shirin[at]cs[dot]utoronto[dot]ca

Research

My interests include :

Preference-based planning in HTN
Planning and Agent programming with Qualitative User Preferences
Modeling and reasoning about Semantic Web Services, including automated Web service composition

Papers

HTN Planning with Quantitative Preferences via Heuristic Search, Sohrabi, S. and Baier, J. and McIlraith, S., 2008. ICAPS Workshop on Oversubscribed Planning and Scheduling, Sydney, Australia, September, 2008. To appear.
On Planning with Preferences in HTN, Sohrabi, S and McIlraith, S., 2008. Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR08), Sydney, Australia, September, 2008. To appear.
On Planning with Preferences in HTN, Sohrabi, S and McIlraith, S., 2008. Fourth Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-Pref08), at AAAI-08, Chicago, USA, pp. 103-109, July 2008.
Web Service Composition via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences, Sohrabi, S. and Prokoshyna, N. and McIlraith, S., 2006. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Athens, USA, pp. 597–611, November, 2006.

Presentations

Fourth Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-Pref08) at AAAI-08, Presented the paper "On Planning with Preferences in HTN", July 2008.
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), Athens, GA, USA. Presented the paper "Web Service Composition via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences", November 2006

Honors and Awards

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

Teaching Assistant

Winter 2008: CSC324 Principles of Programming Languages
Fall 2007: CSC326 Programming Languages
Fall 2006: CSC324 Principles of Programming Languages