PUBLICATIONS

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2013). "Inferring and Validating Skills and Competencies over Time," Journal of Applied Ontologies.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2013). "Identifying Unreliable Sources of Skill and Competency Information," Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA 2013), Niagara Falls, Canada.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2012). "An Ontology for Skill and Competency Management," in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012), Graz, Austria. (pdf)

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S.; Yu, E. (2012) "Ontologies in Expertise Finding Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Design," in Ontology-Based Applications for Enterprise Systems and Knowledge Management, IGI Publishing.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Devlin, H.J.; Huang, Y.; Contractor, N. (2011). "Expert Recommendation based on Social Drivers, Social Network Analysis, and Semantic Data Representation," in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011), ACM, Chicago, USA. (pdf)

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2011). "Constructing Expert Profiles over Time for Skills Management and Expert Finding," in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (i-KNOW 2011), ACM, Graz, Austria.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2010). "Reasoning about Skills and Competencies," in Proceedings of the 11th IFIP Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2010), Saint-Etienne, France.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Fox, M.S. (2009). "Semantic Matchmaking for Job Recruitment: An Ontology-Based Hybrid Approach," in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010), Washington D.C., USA.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Yu, E. (2008). "Ontology-Based Expertise Finding," in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Yokohama, Japan.

  • Bastani, S.; Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2008). "The Effect of Internet Usage on Interpersonal Relationships: A Case Study," Observatorio (OBS*), Vol.2, No.3.

    • Also appeared as: Bastani, S.; Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2008). "The Effect of Internet Usage on Interpersonal Relationships: A Case Study," in Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'41), IEEE Computer Society, Big Island, HI, USA.

  • Momtazi, S.; Sameti, H.; Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Bahrani, M. (2007). "Robust Parsing for Word Lattices in Continuous Speech Recognition Systems," in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA'2007), Sharjeh, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Extended Abstracts, Technical Reports, Posters, etc.

  • Huang, Y.; Zhang, C.; Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Devlin, H.; Lungeanu, A.; Wasserman, S.; Contractor, N. (2012). "Comparing Efficacy of Link Prediction Models for Expert Recommender Systems." 17th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXXII), Redondo Beach, CA, USA.

  • Huang, M.; Huang, Y.; Devlin, H.; Fazel-Zarandi, M.; Liu, J.; Contractor, N. (2011). "Understand and Guide Scientific Research Team Assembly Through Social Network Analysis: Mapping, Recommender System, and Optimization." 16th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXXI), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2009). "Customer Modeling using Preferences and Social Networks: Literature Review and Future Direction," Qualifying Exam Report, University of Toronto.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2007). "A Retail Ontology," Poster Presentation at the Grace Hopper Conference, Orlando, USA.
Theses

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2013). "Representing and Reasoning about Skills and Competencies over Time," Ph.D. Thesis, Departement of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M. (2007). "A Retail Ontology: Formal Semantics and Efficient Implementation," MSc. Thesis, Departement of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

  • Fazel-Zarandi, M., Momtazi, S. (2005) "Robust Parsing for Word Lattices in Continuous Speech Recognition Systems," BASc. Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.