1997 – 1999
1999 – 2001
2001 – present

Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Research Associate,
Assistant Professor,
Associate Professor

1997/1998
1998/1999
1999/2000


2000/2001

2001/2002

2002/2003

2003/2004

2004/2005

1990
1991
1991

University of Sofia - Diploma work (M.Sc.)
Irina Michajlova,
Nelly Dalekova,
Boiko Dimchev
 

1993
1994
1995
1995
1995
1995
1996
1998

Federal Armed Forces University Munich – Diplomarbeit (M.Sc)
Frank Rustenbach
Christian Pawlik
Rene Brehmer
Marcus Mertens
Ernst Horstmann
Thomas Stoyke
Anja Bohnert
Jens Hartmann
 

2000
2002
2004
2004
2005
2005
ongoing
ongoing

University of Saskatchewan, M.Sc in Computer Science
Chhaya Mudgal
Silvia Breban
Golha Sharifi
Xiaolin Niu
Yamini Upadrashta
Christopher Brooks
Ran Cheng
Lingling Sun
 

University of Saskatchewan, Ph.D. in Computer Science
Pinata Winoto
Yao Wang
 

In Peer-Reviewed Journals:

1. Hopkins, I., Vassileva J. (to appear) Beyond Keywords and Hierarchies. Journal of Data and Information Management, special issue on Distributed Data Management (accepted Jan. 30, 2005)
2. Vassileva, J., Chen, R., Sun, L., Han, W. (2004) Stimulating User Participation in a File-Sharing P2P System Supporting University Classes, P2P Journal, July 2004 issue. (this journal is not peer-reviewed in principle, but this paper was peer-reviewed, upon our request).
3. X. Niu, G. I. McCalla, and J. Vassileva, (2004) Purpose-based Expert Finding in a Portfolio Management System. Computational Intelligence Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 548-561.
4. Brusilovsky, P. Vassileva J. (2003) Course Sequencing Techniques for Large Scale Web-based Education, International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, 13, (1/2), 75-94.
5. Vassileva J., McCalla G., Greer J. (2003) Multi-Agent Multi-User Modeling, to appear in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 13:(1), 179-210. Special Issue on User Modelling and Intelligent Agents
6. Vassileva, J. Breban, S. Horsch M. (2002) Agent Reasoning Mechanism for Long-Term Coalitions Based on Decision Making and Trust, Computational Intelligence, 18, 4, 583-595, November 2002 Special Issue on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce.
7. J. Greer, G. McCalla, J. Collins, V. Kumar, P. Meagher, J. Vassileva (1998) Supporting Peer Help and Collaboration in Distributed Workplace Environments, International Journal of AI and Education. 9, 159-177, available on the WWW at: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/ijaied/ .
8. Vassileva J.and Deters R.(1998) Dynamic Courseware Generation on the WWW, British Journal of Educational Technologies, http://julita.usask.ca/homepage/UM.htm
9. Vassileva J. (1998) DCG + GTE: Dynamic Courseware Generation with Teaching Expertise, Instructional Science, 26 (3/4):317-332, July 1998.
10. Vassileva J. (1997) Dynamic Courseware Generation, Communication and Information Technologies, 5 (2), 87-102.
11. Vassileva J. (1996) A Task-Centered Approach for User Modeling in a Hypermedia Office Documentation System, User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, 6 (2-3), 185-223 .
12. Diessel T., Lehmann A., Vassileva J. (1994) Individualised Course Generation: a Marriage between CAL and ICAL, Computers & Education , 22 ( 1/2 ) , 57-64.
13. Eskenasi A., Vladimirova Ts., Vassileva J. (1993) Incorporating Student Models in Adaptive Testing Systems, Education and Training Technologies International, 30 , 2, 138-142.
14. Vassileva J. (1992) Pedagogical Decisions within an ITS-shell. Computers & Education, 18 , 39-43.
15. Vassileva J. (1990) An Architecture and Methodology for Creating a Domain-Independent Plan-Based Intelligent Tutoring System. Education and Training Technology International, 27 , 4, 386-397.

Book Chapters:

1. Vassileva J. (2004) Peer-to-Peer Systems, in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire Publishers, Great Barrington, MA.
2. J. Vassileva, C. Mudgal, (2002) Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information: Trading Help in a Distributed Peer Help Environment, Chapter 16, in Parsons S., Gmytrasiewicz P., Wooldridge M. (eds.) Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 337-354.
3. Greer J., G. McCalla, J.Cooke, J. Collins, V. Kumar, A. Bishop, & J. Vassileva (2000) Integrating Cognitive Tools for Peer Help: the Intelligent IntraNet Peer Help-Desk Project, in Computers as Cognitive Tools: The Next Generation , Susanne P.Lajoie (Ed.) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 69-96.
4. Vassileva J. (1998) A Task-Centred Approach for User Modeling in a Hypermedia Office Documentation System, in Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A. and Vassileva J. (Eds.) Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, Kluwer Academic Publ. Dordrecht, Chapter 8, 209-247. (** reprinted journal publication Nr 7**)
5. Vassileva J. (1997) Education on the WWW. in Gross, G, Langer U., Seising R. (Hrsg.) "Studieren und Forschen im Internet - Perspektiven fuer Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft", Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 107-124.
6. Vassileva J. (1997) Ensuring a Task-based Individualized Interface for Hypermedia Information Retrieval by User Modeling, in Maybury M. (Ed.) Intelligent Mulitmedia Infromation Retrieval , MIT Press, Chapter 18, 357-379.
7. Vassileva J. (1997) A Three-Dimensional Perspective on the Current Trends in Student Modelling, in Kommers P. (Ed.) New Media and Telematic Technologies for Education in Eastern European Countries , Twente University Press, 74-79.
8. Vassileva J. (1997) TOBIE: An Implementation of a Domain- Independent ITS-Architecture in the Domain of Symbolic Integration, in Kommers P. (Ed.) New Media and Telematic Technologies for Education in Eastern European Countries , Twente University Press, 241-258.

Edited Collections:

1. Bauer M. , Gmytrasiewicz P. & J. Vassileva (eds.), User Modeling 2001: 8th International Conference, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2109, Berlin Heidelberg.
2. Brusilovsky P., Kobsa A., Vassileva J. (1998) Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia , Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht. (see the book review by Anthony Jameson )

Referred Conference and Workshop Publications:

1. Cheng R., Vassileva, J. (2005) User Motivation and Persuasion Strategy for Peer-to-peer Communities. Proceedings HICSS'2005 (Mini-track on Online Communities in the Digital Economy/Emerging Technologies), Hawaii, Jan 3-6, 2005.
2. Upadrashta,Y., Vassileva J., Grassman W. (2005) Emerging Social Networks in Peer-to-Peer Systems. Proceedings HICSS'2005 (Mini-track on The Peer to Peer Paradigm/Emerging Technologies), Hawaii, Jan 3-6, 2005.
3. Wang Y., Vassileva J. (2004) Trust-Based Community Formation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks, Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004),September 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China (full paper, acceptance rate: 23%).
4. Winoto P., McCalla G. and Vassileva J. (2004) Non-Monotonic-Offers Bargaining Protocol, Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04) Conference , New York, July 21-25, 2004, 1072 - 1079. (full paper, 24.6% acceptance rate, ***Best Student Paper Award***).
5. Sharifi G., Deters R., Vassileva J., Bull S., Röbig H . (2004) Location-Aware Adaptive Interfaces for Information Access with Handheld Computers, in Proc. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems · Third International Conference, AH 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Nejdl W., De Bra P. (Eds.), Vol. 3137 (short paper, acceptance 33%).
6. Vassileva, J. (2004) Harnessing P2P Power in the Classroom. Proceedings Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS'2004, Lester, J.; Vicari, R.; Paraguacu, F. (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3220, 305-314. (full paper, acceptance 39%).
7. Cao, Y., Upadrashta, Y., Sharifi, G., Vassileva, J. (2004) A Study of User Attitude Dynamics in a Computer Game, Proceedings ICEIS'2004 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, April 15-17, 2004, 222-230. (long paper, 11.4% acceptance rate)
8. Sharifi, G., Vassileva, J. and Deters, R. (2004) Seamless Communication and Access to Information for Mobile Users in a Wireless Environment. Proceedings ICEIS'2004 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, April 15-17, 2004, 122-130. (long paper, 11.4% acceptance rate)
9. Bretzke H., Vassileva J. (2003) Motivating Cooperation in Peer to Peer Networks, Proceedings User Modeling UM03, Johnstown, PA, June 22-26, Springer Verlag LNCS 2702, 2003, 218-227.
10. Wang Y., Vassileva J. (2003) Bayesian Network-Based Trust Model, Proc. of IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), October 13-17, 2003, Halifax, Canada. (full paper, 17% acceptance rate, *** one of the three papers nominated for best paper award ***)
11. Wang Y. Vassileva J. (2003) Trust and Reputation Model in Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proc. of IEEE Conference on P2P Computing, Linkoeping, Sweden, September 2003, IEEE Press, 150-157.
12. Vassileva J. (2002) Supporting Peer-to-Peer User Communities, in R. Meersman, Z. Tari et al. (Eds.) "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS , DOA, and ODBASE" Coordinated International Conferences Proceedings, Irvine, 29 Oct - 1 Nov. 2002, LNCS 2519, Springer Verlag: Berlin-Heidelberg, 230-247 (acceptance rate 25%).
13. Winoto P., McCalla G., Vassileva J. (2002) An Extended Alternating-Offers Bargaining Protocol for Automated Negotiation in Multi-agent Systems, in R. Meersman, Z. Tari, et al. (Eds.): On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE : Confederated International Conferences CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2002 Proceedings , Irvine, 29 Oct - 1 Nov., 2002, LNCS 2519, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 179-194, (acceptance rate 25%).
14. Breban S., J. Vassileva (2002) Using Inter-Agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation, R. Cohen and B.Spencer (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Canadian Conference on AI, Calgary, 28-30 May, 2002, Springer Verlag LNAI 2338, 221-236.
15. Okonkwo, C., Vassileva, J. (2001) Affective Pedagogical Agents and User Persuasion, in C. Stephanidis (ed.) Proc. "Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction (UAHCI)", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human- Computer Interaction, New Orleans, USA, 397-401.
16. Vassileva J. (2001) Distributed User Modelling for Universal Information Access, in C. Stephanidis (ed.) "Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction (UAHCI)", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, USA, vol.3, Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, N.J., 122-126.
17. Vassileva, J. and Deters, R. (2001) Supporting Peer Help and Collaboration in a Mobile Environment, in M. Smith, G. Salvendy, (eds.) Systems, Social and Internationalization Design Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, USA, vol. 2, Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, N.J., 730-734.
18. Greer J., McCalla G., Vassileva J., Deters R., Bull S., Kettel L. (2001) Lessons Learned in Deploying a Multi-Agent Learning Support System: The I-Help Experience, Proceedings of AI in Education AIED'2001, San Antonio, IOS Press: Amsterdam, 410-421.
19. Mudgal C., J. Vassileva (2000) Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information, in CIA'2000, in Klusch & Kershberg (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents , Springer LNAI 1860, 107-118.
20. McCalla G., Vassileva G., Greer J., Bull, S. (2000) Active Learner Modelling, in Gautier, Frasson & VanLehn (eds.) Proceedings of ITS'2000 , Springer LNCS 1839, 53-62.
21. Mudgal C., J. Vassileva (2000) Multi-agent negotiation to support an economy for online help and tutoring, in Proceedings of ITS'2000 , Springer LNCS 1839, 83-92.

…plus 30 other peer-reviewed conference publications between 1989-1999
(see a full list at http://julita.usask.ca/homepage/public.htm)