Publications

Book Chapters

1. Faghihi,U & Franklin , S The LIDA Model as a Foundational Architecture For AGI In: WANG, P & GOERTZEL, B (eds ) Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence Atlantis Press (submitted)
2. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (accepted) CELTS: A Cognitive Tutoring Agent with Human-Like Learning Capabilities and Emotions In Ayala, A P (Ed ) Intelligent and Adaptive Educational-Learning Systems: Achievements and Trends, Springer.
3. Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R , Faghihi, U & Mephu Nguifo, E (2009) Mining Temporal Patterns to Improve Agents Behavior: Two Case Studies In Cao, L (Ed ) Data Mining and Multiagent Integration, Springer, p.77-92.

Journal Papers

1. Faghihi, U , Mccall, R & Franklin , S A Computational Model for Attentional Learning in Cognitive Agents IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (submitted)
2. Fournier-Viger, P , Faghihi, U , Nkambou, R , Mephu Nguifo, E (in press) CMRules: Mining Sequential Rules Common to Several Sequences.Knowledge-based Systems, Elsevier, 18 pages.
3. Faghihi, U , Poirier, P , Fournier-Viger, P, & Nkambou, R (in press) Human-Like Learning in a Cognitive Agent Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, 33 pages.
4. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P, Nkambou, R , Poirier, P (in press) Identifying Causes Helps a Tutoring System to Better Adapt to Learners During Training Sessions Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Application, Scientific Research Publishing.
5. Fournier-Viger, P , Faghihi, U , Nkambou, R & Mephu Nguifo, E (2010) Exploiting Sequential Patterns Found in Users’ Solutions and Virtual Tutor Behavior to Improve Assistance in ITS Educational Technology & Society, 13(1):12-24.

Conference Papers

1. Faghihi, U , Poirier, P , Larue, O (in press), Emotional cognitive architectures Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011).
2. Hossein Abadi , S H , Faghihi, U (in press), Stide Analyzing Patients' Leg muscles Remotely from Hospital The Proceedings of 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (EDAS 2011)
3. Faghihi, U ,Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R (in press), Implementing an Efficient Causal Learning Mechanism in a Cognitive Tutoring Agent The Twenty-fourth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
4. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (2011).A Cognitive Tutoring Agent with Episodic and Causal Learning Capabilities Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED 2011) IOS Press, pp 72-80.
5. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (2011) Implementing an Efficient Causal Learning Mechanism in a Cognitive Tutoring Agent.Proceedings of the 24th Intern.Conf on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2011), LNAI 6704, Springer, pp.27-36.
6. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (2011) A Cognitive Tutoring Agent with Automatic Reasoning Capabilities Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2011), AAAI press, pp.448-449.
7. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R & Poirier, P (2010) The Combination of a Causal Learning and an Emotional Learning Mechanism for an Improved Cognitive Tutoring Agent Proceedings of the 23th Intern.Conf on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2010), LNAI 6097, Springer, pp 438-449.
8. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R & Poirier, P (2009) A Generic Episodic Learning Model Implemented in a Cognitive Agent by Means of Temporal Pattern Mining Proceedings of the 22nd Intern.Conf on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2009), LNAI 5579, Springer, pp 545-555.
9. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R , Poirier, P & Mayers, A (2009) How Emotional Mechanism Helps Episodic Learning in a Cognitive Agent Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, pp 23-30.
10. Faghihi, U , Nkambou, R, Poirier, P , & Fournier-Viger, P (2009) Emotional Learning and a Combined Centralist-Peripheralist Based Architecture for a More Efficient Cognitive Agent Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2009), 6 pages.
11. Fournier-Viger, P , Faghihi, U , Nkambou, R and Mephu Nguifo, E (2010) Association Rules-Based Mining of All Temporal Rules in Sequence Databases FLAIRS 2010 (In press).
12. Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R , Faghihi, U & Mephu Nguifo, E (2009) Mining Temporal Patterns to Improve Agents Behavior: Two Case Studies In Cao, L (Ed ) Data Mining and Multiagent Integration, Springer, p 77-92.
13. Fournier-Viger, P , Faghihi, U , Nkambou, R & Mephu Nguifo, E (2009) Exploiting Sequential Patterns Found in Users’ Solutions and Virtual Tutor Behavior to Improve Assistance in ITS Educational Technology & Society
14. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P , Nkambou, R , Poirier, P & Mayers, A (2009), How Emotional Mechanism Helps Episodic Learning in a Cognitive Agent Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, 8 pages.
15. Usef Faghihi, Roger Nkambou,Pierre Poirier,Philippe Fournier-Viger (2008), “Emotional Learning and a Combined Centralist-Peripheralist Based Architecture for a More Efficient Cognitive Agent” IEEE/ ICIT 2009 International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2009) IEEE Computer Society press.
16. Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Mohamed Gaha, Roger Nkambou (2008), “How Emotional Mechanism Learn and Helps other types of Learning in a Cognitive Agent” IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2008) IEEE Computer Society press.
17. Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Mohamed Gaha, Roger Nkambou (2008), “Implementation of Emotional Learning for Cognitive Tutoring Agents” 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008) IEEE Computer Society press.
18. Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Mohamed Gaha(2008), “A New Emotional Architecture for Cognitive Tutoring Agents” FLAIRS Conference 2008, AAAI Press.
19. Mohamed GahaUsef  Faghihi, and Roger Nkambou (2007), “Emotion and E-Learning” IEEE ELearning International Conference (ELIC2007 Conference Proceedings 2007).
20. Usef  Faghihi, Daniel Dubois , Roger Nkambou (2007), “Unconscious Learning Mechanisms for a Tutoring Cognitive Agent” Proccedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), juillet 18-20, Niigata, Japon.
21. Usef  Faghihi, Daniel Dubois , Roger Nkambou (2007) “ Learning Mechanisms for a Tutoring Cognitive Agent” In C Montgomerie & J Seale (Eds ), Proceedings 18th EDMEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (pp 3106-3114) Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
22.  Usef  Faghihi, Daniel Dubois , Roger Nkambou (2007) Human-Like Learning Methods for a "Conscious" Agent Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications With Aspects of Contemporary Intelligent Computing Techniques Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, (ICIC 2007), Qingdao, Chine, 21-24 août, 2007 Springer.
23. Usef  Faghihi (2005) Transforming UML models TO communicating Extended Timed Automata System (IF) Master research report (2005), Brest, France.

Talks & Demonstrations

  1. Faghihi, U , Poirier, P , Larue, O (2011) L'implémentation des émotions dans les architectures cognitives .L'UQAM au 77e Congrès de l'ACFAS  
  2. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (2010) Mécanisme d'apprentissage épisodique basé sur la recherche de régularités temporelles.L'UQAM au 77e Congrès de l'ACFAS  
  3. Faghihi, U , Fournier-Viger, P & Nkambou, R (2011), Conscious Emotional Learning Tutoring System (CELTS) : A cognitive architecture The 6th Young Researchers Conference in Cognitive Science (Cognitio 2011): Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds, 3-5 July, Montréal, Canada.