A. Patrice Seyed
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

I am beginning my 5th year as a PhD student at UB in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I am participating in the Ph.D Track Program in Cognitive Science. Prior to UB I received an M.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Boston University. My areas of research include Applied Ontology, and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. I am interested in developing methods for applying formal ontological theories to practical domain modeling, with the assistance of logical reasoners. My dissertation advisor is Dr. Stuart C. Shapiro, and I am a member of SNeRG (The SNePS Research Group). The best way to contact me is to send email to apseyed AT buffalo DOT com.

Conference Proceedings, Publications, and Technical Reports

• A. Patrice Seyed, John Pacheco, Andrew Goldenkranz, and Vinay Chaudhri. Modeling Issues Encountered from Building a Taxonomy from a Biology Textbook. Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies, July 2011, Buffalo, NY (abstract).

• Vinay Chaudhri, Andrew Goldenkranz, Richard Fikes, and A. Patrice Seyed. What is hard about representing biology textbook knowledge? The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, July 2011 (abstract).

• Vinay K. Chaudhri, Nikhil Diniesh, John Pacheco, Gary Ng, Peter E. Clark, Andrew Goldenkranz, Patrice Seyed, and Naveen Sharma. Preliminary Steps Towards a Knowledge Factory Process. The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, July 2011 (abstract).

• A. Patrice Seyed and Stuart C. Shapiro. Applying Rigidity to Standardizing OBO Foundry Candidate Ontologies. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo NY, July 28-30, 2011 (paper, in press).

• A. Patrice Seyed. A Method for Evaluating and Standardizing Ontologies. Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Doctoral Consortium. July 2011, (abstract).

• A. Patrice Seyed, Stuart C. Shapiro, and Barry Smith, Integrating BFO with OntoClean: Towards a Method for Evaluating and Correcting Ontologies. International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, May 2010 (poster).

• A. Patrice Seyed, BFO/DOLCE Primitive Relation Comparison. In: Barry Smith, Ed., Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), Buffalo, NY, July 23-26, 2009, 190.

• A. Patrice Seyed, BFO/DOLCE Primitive Relation Comparision. Invited paper presented at Bio-Ontologies 2009: Knowledge in Biology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 28, 2009.

• Josephine Anstey, A. Patrice Seyed, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Dave Pape, Stuart C. Shapiro, Jonathan Bona, and Stephen Hibit, The Agent Takes The Stage, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) 2, 4 (2009), 277-296. DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2009.029236.

• A. Patrice Seyed, Michael Kandefer, and Stuart C. Shapiro, SNePS Efficiency Report, SNeRG Technical Note 43, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 18, 2008.

• Michael Kandefer, A. Patrice Seyed, and Stuart C. Shapiro, The Use of SNePS for Cyber Security Reasoning, SNeRG Technical Note 44, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 18, 2008.

• A. Patrice Seyed, SNePS Agent for QPR Suicide Prevention Method, North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, April 2008 (abstract).
  
  

Research-Related Activities

• "Workers of the World" accepted in the Maker Faire at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin, Texas on October 18 and 19, 2008.

• Attended the ICCL Summer School 2008 for Computational Logic and Cognitive Science in Dresden, Germany from August 24 to September 6th 2008.

• During the Summer of 2008 worked on "Workers of the World" under Professor Josephine Anstey, which is a guerilla-style performance for autonomous cleaning robots. I have contributed the high-level "cognitive" functioning of each robot and communication between robots as apart of the speaking parts for the plays they are performing.

• Presented on Emotion Theories at SNeRG (2/8/08).

• During the Spring 2008 Semester I worked as a research assistant under Dr. Shapiro on a DoD grant, primarily benchmarking and optimization of SnePS 2.7.0.

• During the Fall 2007 Semester I worked on a project for CSE663 Advanced Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for a SNePS Agent for the QPR Suicide Prevention Method. A sample interaction is available here.

• On 9/21/07 at SNeRG I presented my directed study from my MS in CS at Boston University, Reality TV interactions and rules.

Useful Scripts and Customizations

• How to quickly back up a document.

• A quick start guide to creating and using a subversion repository and project.

• Tcsh script for compiling a latex document.

• To automate some steps for running acl in xemacs.

• My ~/.xemacs/custom.el file, which sets the background to black, foreground to a light blue color,
  and commented code to a darker blue color, among other color settings.