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A resource-aware preference model for context-aware systems (2018)
Journal Article
Uddin, I., & Rakib, A. (2018). A resource-aware preference model for context-aware systems. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 217, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77818-1_1

© 2018, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. In mobile computing, context-awareness has recently emerged as an effective approach for building adaptive pervasive computing applications. Many of... Read More about A resource-aware preference model for context-aware systems.

Modelling and reasoning about context-aware agents over heterogeneous knowledge sources (2017)
Journal Article
Ul Haque, H. M., Rakib, A., & Uddin, I. (2017). Modelling and reasoning about context-aware agents over heterogeneous knowledge sources. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 193, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56357-2_1

© ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017. This paper presents a conceptual framework and multi-agent model for context-aware decision support in dynamic smart environments based on heterogeneo... Read More about Modelling and reasoning about context-aware agents over heterogeneous knowledge sources.

Resource-bounded context-aware applications: A survey and early experiment (2016)
Journal Article
Uddin, I., Haque, H. M. U., Rakib, A., & Rahmat, M. R. S. (2016). Resource-bounded context-aware applications: A survey and early experiment. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 168, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46909-6_15

© ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2016. The recent advancement of mobile computing technology and smartphones have changed the way we live, communicate, interact, and understand the world. S... Read More about Resource-bounded context-aware applications: A survey and early experiment.

An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources (2015)
Journal Article
Rakib, A., Lawan, A., & Walker, S. (2015). An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 355, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_4

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The past two decades have seen a remarkable shift in the knowledge-and information-sharing paradigm. In the crops domain, for example, the amount of information currently known about underutilized... Read More about An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources.

A temporal description logic for resource-bounded rule-based context-aware agents (2014)
Journal Article
Rakib, A., Haque, H. M. U., & Faruqui, R. U. (2014). A temporal description logic for resource-bounded rule-based context-aware agents. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 128, 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05939-6_1

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. We propose a logical framework for modelling and verifying context-aware multi-agent systems. We extend CTL* with belief and communication modalities, and the resulting logic LOCRS allows us to de... Read More about A temporal description logic for resource-bounded rule-based context-aware agents.

Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases (2013)
Journal Article
Izadi, O., & Rakib, A. (2013). Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716764

An organization's future developments are influenced by its managements' decisions. This can only happen by strengthening research and development strategies. Market monitoring and analyzing systems are designed to provide an organized flow of inform... Read More about Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases.

A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents (2013)
Journal Article
Rakib, A., & Faruqui, R. U. (2013). A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 109 LNICST, 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_9

There has been a move of context-aware systems into safety-critical domains including healthcare, emergency scenarios, and disaster recovery. These systems are often distributed and deployed on resource-bounded devices. Therefore, developing formal t... Read More about A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents.

Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents (2012)
Journal Article
Rakib, A., Faruqui, R. U., & MacCaull, W. (2012). Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7153 LNCS, 312-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28472-4_18

Recent efforts towards the Semantic Web have resulted in powerful languages such as Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) based on OWL-DL and RuleML. Rule languages and inference engines incorporate reasoning capabilities to Semantic Web application syst... Read More about Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents.

Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction (2011)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2011). Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6572 LNAI, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20674-0_5

We describe a framework for the automated verification of multi-agent systems which do distributed problem solving, e.g. query answering. Each reasoner uses facts, messages and Horn clause rules to derive new information. We show how to verify correc... Read More about Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction.

Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources (2009)
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Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2009). Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5605 LNAI, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05301-6_1

There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for bounded reasoners where the bound can be time, memory, or the amount of information the reasoners can exchange. In much of this work the epistemic logic is used as a meta-logic to reaso... Read More about Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources.

Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds (2009)
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Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nga, N. H., & Rakib, A. (2009). Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5834 LNAI, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04893-7_1

We introduce Coalition Logic for Resource Games (CLRG) which extends Coalition Logic by allowing explicit reasoning about resource endowments of coalitions of agents and resource bounds on strategies. We show how to express interesting properties of... Read More about Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds.

Verifying time, memory and communication bounds in systems of reasoning agents (2009)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2009). Verifying time, memory and communication bounds in systems of reasoning agents. Synthese, 169(2), 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9557-1

We present a framework for verifying systems composed of heterogeneous reasoning agents, in which each agent may have differing knowledge and inferential capabilities, and where the resources each agent is prepared to commit to a goal (time, memory a... Read More about Verifying time, memory and communication bounds in systems of reasoning agents.

Verifying time and communication costs of rule-based reasoners (2009)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nga, N. H., & Rakib, A. (2009). Verifying time and communication costs of rule-based reasoners. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5348 LNAI, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00431-5_1

We present a framework for the automated verification of time and communication requirements in systems of distributed rule-based reasoning agents which allows us to determine how many rule-firing cycles are required to solve the problem, how many me... Read More about Verifying time and communication costs of rule-based reasoners.