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Sheila A. McIlraith

Sheila A. McIlraith

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Computer Science

D-Index
58
Citations
18860
World Ranking
3556
National Ranking
140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to knowledge representation, reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the semantic web and diagnostic problem solving.

Overview

Sheila A. McIlraith is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.

Their research spans several subfields, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Key topics of their work encompass:

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Topic Modeling

Notable recent publications include:

  • Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, 2024, Science
  • Reward Machines: Exploiting Reward Function Structure in Reinforcement Learning, 2022, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Symbolic Plans as High-Level Instructions for Reinforcement Learning, 2020, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Non-Markovian Rewards Expressed in LTL: Guiding Search Via Reward Shaping, 2021, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
  • Embedding Ethics in Computer Science Courses, 2022, Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Toryn Q. Klassen
  • Rodrigo Toro Icarte
  • Andrew C. Li
  • Maayan Shvo
  • Pouya Shati

Publication venues where they have been frequently published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Sheila A. McIlraith has authored books published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including:

  • Embedded Ethics: Pandemic Exposure Notification Systems and Giving Ethical Justifications, 2024
  • Embedded Ethics: Pandemic Contact Tracing and Ethical Trade-offs, 2024

Their work has been recognized through several awards, notably:

  • ACM Fellow, 2019, for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011, for significant contributions to knowledge representation, reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the semantic web and diagnostic problem solving

Best Publications

  • Semantic Web services

    S.A. McIlraith;T.C. Son;Honglei Zeng

  • DAML-S: semantic markup for web services

    Anupriya Ankolekar;Mark Burstein;Jerry R. Hobbs;Ora Lassila

  • Simulation, verification and automated composition of web services

    Srini Narayanan;Sheila A. McIlraith

  • Adapting Golog for Composition of Semantic Web Services

    Sheila A. McIlraith;Tran Cao Son

  • DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

    Mark H. Burstein;Jerry R. Hobbs;Ora Lassila;David Martin

  • Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach

    David Martin;Massimo Paolucci;Sheila McIlraith;Mark Burstein

  • Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S

    David Martin;Mark Burstein;Drew Mcdermott;Sheila Mcilraith

  • DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services

    Anupriya Ankolenkar;Mark Burstein;Jerry Hobbs;Ora Lassila

  • Bringing semantics to Web services

    S.A. McIlraith;D.L. Martin

  • Adapting BPEL4WS for the semantic web: the bottom-up approach to web service interoperation

    Daniel J. Mandell;Sheila A. McIlraith

  • Web service composition as planning

    Mark Carman;Jose Luis Ambite;Luciano Serafini;Craig Knoblock

  • Analysis and simulation of Web services

    Srini Narayanan;Sheila McIlraith

  • A heuristic search approach to planning with temporally extended preferences

    Jorge A. Baier;Fahiem Bacchus;Sheila A. McIlraith

  • Partition-based logical reasoning for first-order and propositional theories

    Eyal Amir;Sheila McIlraith

  • Reward Machines: Exploiting Reward Function Structure in Reinforcement Learning.

    Rodrigo Toro Icarte;Toryn Q. Klassen;Richard Anthony Valenzano;Sheila A. McIlraith

  • LTL and Beyond: Formal Languages for Reward Function Specification in Reinforcement Learning

    Alberto Camacho;Rodrigo Toro Icarte;Toryn Q. Klassen;Richard Anthony Valenzano

  • Using Reward Machines for High-Level Task Specification and Decomposition in Reinforcement Learning

    Rodrigo Toro Icarte;Toryn Q. Klassen;Richard Anthony Valenzano;Sheila A. McIlraith

  • Representing and reasoning about preferences in requirements engineering

    Sotirios Liaskos;Sheila A. McIlraith;Shirin Sohrabi;John Mylopoulos

  • Improved non-deterministic planning by exploiting state relevance

    Christian Muise;Sheila A. McIlraith;J. Christopher Beck

  • Planning with first-order temporally extended goals using heuristic search

    Jorge A. Baier;Sheila A. Mcilraith

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Christopher Beck
J. Christopher Beck University of Toronto
Chitta Baral
Chitta Baral Arizona State University
Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University
Massimo Paolucci
Massimo Paolucci NTT (Japan)
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Hector J. Levesque
Hector J. Levesque University of Toronto
Terry R. Payne
Terry R. Payne University of Liverpool
Richard Hull
Richard Hull Spring Hills Foundation
Frank van Harmelen
Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Barbara Pernici
Barbara Pernici Polytechnic University of Milan

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