dr. V. Yazdanpanah (Vahid)

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Email: Vahid [At] Yazdanpanah [Dot] net

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I concluded my PhD research (defended on 27 November 2019) under the supervision of Prof. Henk Zijm and Dr. Devrim Yazan in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS) at the University of Twente. My PhD research was a part of the SHAREBOX project. The goal of this EU2020 project was to develop a secure management platform for shared process resources. Our team at IEBIS developed intelligent decision support tools that are integrated into the SHAREBOX platform.

I completed my Master in Artificial Intelligence (MSc) at Utrecht University, under the supervision of Prof. Mehdi Dastani. I also hold a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of Greenwich in a joint program with Saxion UAS.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Industrial Relations
# Multi Agent Systems

Business & Economics

# Agent-Based Simulation
# Industrial Symbiosis
# Strategic Learning

Mathematics

# Agent-Based Simulation
# Multi-Agent Systems
# Task Allocation

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS)

My focus is on intelligent agent technologies, decision support concepts, and formal methods for multiagent systems. In particular, modeling the behavior of multiagent systems and logical frameworks to represent and reason about decision processes in multiagent settings. The following points characterize my general research interests:

Agent-based computing
Logics for multiagent systems
Strategic decision making and game theoretic approaches
Temporal representation and reasoning
Virtual organizations/institutions
Group responsibility and related socio-technical concepts

Academic Visit

From July to October 2019, I was an academic visitor at Imperial College London, visiting Professor Nick Jennings.

Professional Services

Program Committee Member:

The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020)
The 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2020)

Reviewer:

Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)
International Journal of Production Economics (Elsevier)
EUMAS - European Conference on Multiagent Systems
MATES - German Conference on Multiagent Systems
BNAIC - Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Award

Best paper award of PRIMA 2016 (19^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems) for “Distant Group Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems” (joint work with Mehdi Dastani).

Research Output

A list of my publications is available at DBLP and Google Scholar. In addition, below is a list of my research outputs (maintained and automatically generated by UTwente Research Information Platform).

Yazdanpanah, V., Dastani, M., Fatima, S., Jennings, N. R. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, H. (2021). Multiagent Task Coordination as Task Allocation Plus Task Responsibility. In N. Bassiliades, G. Chalkiadakis, & D. de Jonge (Eds.), Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies: 17th European Conference, EUMAS 2020, and 7th International Conference, AT 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 14-15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 571-588). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12520). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66412-1_37

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, W. H. M. (2020). Transaction Cost Allocation in Industrial Symbiosis: A Multiagent Systems Approach. In L. Cao, W. Kosters, & J. Lijffijt (Eds.), BNAIC Benelearn 2020 Proceedings (pp. 324-338). (Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference; Vol. 2020). Leiden University.

Yazdanpanah, V. , Mehryar, S., Jennings, N. R., Surminski, S., Siegert, M. J. , & van Hillegersberg, J. (2020). Multiagent Climate Change Research. In B. An, A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, & G. Sukthankar (Eds.), AAMAS '20: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1726-1731). ACM Publishing. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3398761.3398962

Yazdanpanah, V., Dastani, M., Fatima, S., Jennings, N. R. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, H. (2020). Task Coordination in Multiagent Systems. In B. An, A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, & G. Sukthankar (Eds.), AAMAS '20: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 2056-2058). ACM Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5555/3398761.3399073

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, H. (2020). Coordinating Multiagent Industrial Symbiosis. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01784

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, H. H. M. (2020). A multiagent framework for coordinating industrial symbiotic networks. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2706, 38-53. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2706/paper9.pdf

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, W. H. M. (2020). Dynamics and Allocation of Transaction Cost in Multiagent Industrial Symbiosis. arXiv.org.

Fraccascia, L. , Yazdanpanah, V. , van Capelleveen, G. , & Yazan, D. M. (2020). Energy-based industrial symbiosis: a literature review for circular energy transition. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00840-9

Yazan, D. M. , Yazdanpanah, V. , & Fraccascia, L. (2020). Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game-theoretic approach integrated with agent-based simulation. Business strategy and the environment, 29(5), 2078-2091. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2488

Yazdanpanah, V. (2019). Multiagent Industrial Symbiosis Systems. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. Ipskamp Printing. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036548878

Yazdanpanah, V., Dastani, M. , Jamroga, W., Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2019). Strategic Responsibility Under Imperfect Information. In AAMAS '19 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 592-600). The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). https://doi.org/10.5555/3306127.3331745

Fraccascia, L. , Yazdanpanah, V. , van Capelleveen, G. C. , & Yazan, D. M. (2019). A Framework for Industrial Symbiosis Systems for Agent-Based Simulation. In J. Becker, & D. Novikov (Eds.), Proceedings - 21st IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, CBI 2019 (pp. 419-428). Article 8808068 (Proceedings IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI); Vol. 2019, No. 21). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2019.00055

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , van Hillegersberg, J., & Dastani, M. (2019). An Introduction to Engineering Multiagent Industrial Symbiosis Systems: Potentials and Challenges. In R. H. Bordini, L. A. Dennis, & Y. Lespérance (Eds.), Pre-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2019), 13th-14th May 2019, Montreal, Canada http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019/accepted/EMAS2019_paper_32.pdf

Yazdanpanah, V. , Yazan, D. M. , & Zijm, W. H. M. (2019). FISOF: A Formal Industrial Symbiosis Opportunity Filtering Method. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 81, 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2019.01.005

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