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Foozhan Ataiefard
dblp:283/5487
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2023
0000-0002-9133-9100ORCID · reported
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program analysis · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 1, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Program analysis › specification mining
behavioral model inference |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Deep State Inference: Toward Behavioral Model Inference of Black-Box Software Systems · IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
deep learning · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Gray-box Adversarial Attack of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Trading Agents*abstractIn recent years, deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) has been successfully implemented as a smart agent in many systems such as complex games, self-driving cars, and chat-bots. One of the interesting use cases of Deep RL is its application as an automated stock trading agent. In general, any automated trading agent is prone to manipulations by adversaries in the trading environment. Thus studying their robustness is vital for their success in practice. However, typical mechanism to study RL robustness, which is based on white-box gradient-based adversarial sample generation techniques (like FGSM), is obsolete for this use case, since the models are protected behind secure international exchange APIs, such as NASDAQ. In this research, we demonstrate that a “gray-box” approach for attacking a Deep RL-based trading agent is possible by trading in the same stock market, with no extra access to the trading agent. In our proposed approach, an adversary agent uses a hybrid Deep Neural Network as its policy consisting of Convolutional layers and fully-connected layers. On average, over three simulated trading market configurations, the adversary policy proposed in this research is able to reduce the reward values by 214.17%, which results in reducing the potential profits of the baseline by 139.4%, ensemble method by 93.7%, and an automated trading software developed by our industrial partner by 85.5%, while consuming significantly less budget than the victims (427.77%, 187.16%, and 66.97%, respectively). Foozhan Ataiefard, Hadi Hemmati |
ICMLA | 1 |
| 2022 | Deep State Inference: Toward Behavioral Model Inference of Black-Box Software Systems
Foozhan Ataiefard, Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi, Hadi Hemmati, Neil Walkinshaw |
IEEE Trans. Software Eng. | 1 |