Amirali

Amirali Salehi-Abari
Research Scientist at School of Computer Science
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 5B6

 

I am a member of the Complex Adaptive Systems Group. I have recently finished my Master's in Computer Science at Carleton University with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI). I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Tony White. For my thesis, I worked on a computational game-theoretic trust and reputation model for open distributed systems.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research mainly focuses on multidisciplinary artificial intelligence. My interest in artificial intelligence is mainly inspired by nature, social systems, and groups of intelligent entities which cover well-known domains such as Complex Adaptive Systems, Complex Networks, Multi-agent Systems (MAS), Swarm Intelligence, Self-organized Systems, Distributed Computing and Evolutionary Computing. I am also interested in multidisciplinary research areas such as Computational Economics, Computational Neuroscience, Social Web Applications, Intelligent Information Systems. My most recent research focuses on the application of AI (especially game-theoretic approaches) in e-commerce and security.

PUBLICATIONS

    2010

  1. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: Trust Models and Con-man Agents: From Mathematical to Empirical Analysis. In AAAI’10: Proceedings of Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 842-847, Atlanta GA, USA, July 2010.
  2. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: The Relationship of Trust, Demand and Utility: Be More Trustworthy, Then I Will Buy More. In PST’10: Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, pp. 72-79, Canada, August 2010. (Winner, Best Student Paper Award.)
  3. P.C. van Oorschot, Amirali Salehi-Abari, and Julie Thorpe: Purely Automated Attacks on PassPoints-Style Graphical Passwords. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 5(3): 393-405, 2010.
  4. Tony White, Amirali Salehi-Abari and Braden Box: On How Ants Put Advertisements on the Web. In IEA-AIE 2010: Proceedings of Twenty-Third International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 494-503, Spain, 2010.
  5. Tony White, Wayne Chu, and Amirali Salehi-Abari: Media Monitoring Using Social Networks}. In Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Social Computing, pp. 661-668, Minneapolis MN, USA, August 2010.

    6. 2009

  6. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: Towards con-resistant trust models for distributed agent systems. In IJCAI’09: Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 272-277, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2009.
  7. Tony White, Shaun McQuaker, and Amirali Salehi-Abari: On the Importance of Relational Concept Knowledge in Referral Networks. Artificial Intelligence Review, 29(3):287-303, 2009.
  8. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: Witness-based Collusion and Trust-aware Societies. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, volume 4, pages 1008-1014, Vancouver, Canada, 2009.
  9. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: The Uphill Battle of Ant Programming vs. Genetic Programming. In ICEC’09: International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 171-176, Madeira, Portugal, 2009.
  10. Tony White and Amirali Salehi-Abari: An Adaptive Swarm-based Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Dynamic Environments. In ICEC’09: International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 183-189, Madeira, Portugal, 2009.
  11. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: Detecting and dealing with naive agents in trust-aware societies. In Trust ’09: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies, pp. 117-128, Budapest, HU, 2009.
  12. Tony White, Shaun  McQuaker, Amirali Salehi-Abari: Using Relational Concept Knowledge to Improve Search in Referral Networks. In AAMAS’09: In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1321-1322, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

    13. 2008

  13. Amirali Salehi-Abari and Tony White: Enhanced generalized ant programming (EGAP). In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Atlanta, GA, USA, July 12 - 16, 2008). M. Keijzer, Ed. GECCO '08. ACM, New York, NY, 111-118.
  14. Tony White and Amirali Salehi-Abari: A swarm-based crossover operator for genetic programming. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Atlanta, GA, USA, July 12-16, 2008). M. Keijzer, Ed. GECCO '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1345-1346
  15. Amirali Salehi-Abari, Julie Thorpe, and P. C. Oorschot: On Purely Automated Attacks and Click-Based Graphical Passwords. In Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (December 08-12, 2008). ACSAC. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 111-120.