Publications
Books
V.S. Subrahmanian, Aaron Mannes, Amy Sliva, Jana Shakarian, John Dickerson. Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba. Springer, 2012.
Journal Publications
Cristian Molinaro, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Super-solutions: Succinctly Representing Solutions in Abductive Annotated Probabilistic Temporal Logic," ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, To Appear 2013.
Francesco Parisi, Amy Sliva, and V. S. Subrahmanian. "A Temporal Database Forecasting Algebra," International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 54, no. 7, September 2013, pp. 827-860.
Gerardo I. Simari, John Dickerson, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian, "Parallel Abductive Query Answering in Probabilistic Logic Programs," ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013.
Gerardo I. Simari, Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian, "Focused Most Probable World Computations in Probabilistic Logic Programs,", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence,64(2-3): 113-143, May 2012.
Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian, "CONVEX: Context Vectors as a Paradigm for Learning Group Behaviors based on Similarity," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 51-57, Jul/Aug 2008.
Samir Khuller, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Computing Most Probable Worlds of Action Probabilistic Logic Programs: Scalable Estimation for 10^30,000 Worlds." Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, November 2007.
V.S. Subrahmanian, Massimiliano Albanese, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Diego Reforgiato, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, Octavian Udrea, Jonathan Wilkenfeld,"CARA: A Cultural-Reasoning Architecture," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 12-16, Mar/Apr, 2007.
Blake, M.B., Singh, L., Williams, A.B., Norman, W. N., and Sliva, A.L. "A Component-Based Data Management and Knowledge Discovery Framework for Aviation Studies", International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(1), 76-90, January-March 2006.
Conference Publications
Amy Sliva, Scott Neal Reilly, John Chamberlain, and Camille Monnier. "Tools for Validating Causal and Predictive Claims in Social Science Models," International Conferences on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modleing, and Prediction (SBP), 2014 (Under Review).
Amy Sliva, Mikhail Malyutov, Glenn Pierce, Xin Li. "Threats to Peace: Threat Perception and the Persistence or Desistence of Violent Conflict," Proceedings of the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC2013), August 2013.
Amy Sliva, Richard Andres. "Espionage or War?: A Policy Analysis Framework for Cybersecurity," NSF Workshop to Explore Social Science Contributions to Understanding Cyber Security. April 2013.
Si Li, Ryan Rickert, Amy Sliva, "Risk-based Models of Attacker Behavior in Cybersecurity," International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP 2013), April 2013.
Francesco Parisi, Amy Sliva, and V. S. Subrahmanian. "Embedding Forecast Operators in Databases," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), October 2011.
Aaron Mannes, Jana Shakarian, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian. "A Computationally-Enabled Analysis of Lashkar-e-Taiba Attacks in Jammu & Kashmir," European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), September 2011 (short paper).
Cristian Molinaro, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Abduction in Annotated ConferencePublications Probabilistic Temporal Logic," Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Technical communication of the International Conference on Logic Programming, July 2011.
Austin Parker, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Approximate Achievability in Event Databases," Eleventh European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU), June 2011.
Gerardo I. Simari, Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Scaling Most Probable World Computations in Probabilistic Logic Programs," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), October 2008.
Aaron Mannes, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian, Jonathan Wilkenfeld. "Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hamas," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD), September 2008.
A. Sliva, V. Martinez, G.I. Simari, V.S. Subrahmanian. "The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): social network and analytic tools for the real-time analysis of terror groups," First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, April 2008.
Aaron Mannes, Mary Michael, Amy Pate, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian, Jonathan Wilkenfeld. "Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hezbollah," First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, April 2008.
Samir Khuller, Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian. "Finding Most Probable Worlds of Probabilistic Logic Programs," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), October 2007.
Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva, Gerardo I. Simari, V.S. Subrahmanian. "Tractable Methods for Predicting an Agents Most Probable Actions," Proceedings of the 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2007.
Amy Sliva, Maria Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, V.S. Subrahmanian. "SOMA Models of the Behaviors of Stakeholders in the Afghan Drug Economy: A Preliminary Report," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD), August 2007.
Blake, M.B., Sliva, A.L., zur Muehlen, M., and Nickerson, J. "Binding Now or Binding Later: The Performance of UDDI Registries", IEEE Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences (HICSS-2007), Track on Technology and Strategies for Realizing Service-Oriented Architectures with Web services, Hawaii, 2007.
Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, Dana Nau, and VS Subrahmanian. "A Stochastic Language for Modeling Opponent Agents," Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2006.
Saez, G., Sliva, A.L., Blake, M.B. "Web Services-Based Data Management: Evaluating the Performance of UDDI Registries", Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), San Diego, CA, July 2004 (short paper).
Saez, G., Sliva, A.L., and Blake, M.B. "Evaluating the Impacts of Internet Dynamism on UDDI Mechanisms and Frameworks for Web Services", Technical Symposium in Computer Science Education SIGCSE 2004 (also ACM National Research Competition) Norfolk, VA, March 2004 (abstract and presentation).
Book Chapters
Amy Sliva. "Computational Modeling Approaches for Sociocultural Mitigation," Sociocultural behavior sensemaking: State of the art in understanding the operational environment. Egeth, J.E., Klein, G.L., and Schmorrow, D. (Eds.). McLean, VA: The MITRE Corporation. Manuscript in preparation.
Amy Sliva, Gerardo I. Simari, Maria Vanina Martinez, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "SOMA: Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents for Forecasting Violent Behavior," Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counter-Terrorism, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva, Gerardo I. Simari, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Forecasting Changes in Terror Group Behavior," Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counter-Terrorism, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
Gerardo I. Simari, John P. Dickerson, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian. "Policy Analytics Generation using Action Probabilistic Logic Programs," Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counter-Terrorism, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
Sliva, A., Subrahmanian, V. S., Martinez, V., and Simari, G. I. "CAPE: Automatically predicting changes in group behavior". In Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism, N. Memon, J. D. Farley, D. L. Hicks, and T. Rosenorn, Eds. Springer Verlag, 2009, pp.247-263.
Short Articles and Op-Eds
V.S. Subrahmanian, Aaron Mannes, and Amy Sliva. Op-Ed: "Black hole for foreign aid---As U.S. funds increase, so does terrorism", The Washington Times, September 24, 2010.
Invited Talks
Amy Sliva. Scalable Analysis of Behavioral Models and Decision-Making, Computer Science Colloquium, University of Massachusetts Lowel, December 11, 2013.
Amy Sliva. Scalable Analysis of Behavioral Models and Decision-Making, Harvard Applied Statistics Workshop, Harvard University, November 6, 2013.
Amy Sliva. "Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Global Conflit", Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium, Northeastern Humanities Center, Northeastern University, November 5, 2012.
Amy Sliva. Balkan Security, Technology, and Education Conference--the Challenges Within Cyber Infrastructure, Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina & the American University of Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2012.
Amy Sliva. "Security Informatics: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Security," Boston University Computer Science Department Theory Seminar, December 2011.
Amy Sliva. "Interdisciplinary Research at Northeastern: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Political Science," Northeastern University Board of Trustees Meeting, October 2011.
Amy Sliva. "Predicting changes in terror group behaviors", Second International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD), September 2008.