Smiljana V. Petrovic

Assistant Professor

 

Contact:
Department of Computer Science
Iona College
715 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
914-633-2561
914-633-2144 (fax)
Email: spetrovic@iona.edu

Teaching

Spring 2013

CS 140 J - Computers, Technology and Society
CS 201 A – Computer Science I
CS 421 EA Advanced Organization and Implementation of Database Systems
CS 720 EA Advanced Topics in Database

Office hours:

      Monday: 5:00-6:30pm
      Wednesday: 5:00-6:30pm
      By appointment

Education

2008 Ph.D. in Computer Science
Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Thesis: Learning to Combine Heuristics to Solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Advisor: Professor Susan L. Epstein
2001 MS in Computer Science
Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY)
1992 BS in Mathematics, Co-major in Computer Science
University of Belgrade, Serbia

 

Publications

Epstein, S. L. and S. Petrovic (2012) Learning a Mixture of Search Heuristics (Y. Hamadi, E. Monfroy and F. Saubion, editors), Autonomous Search, Springer.

Frances Bailie, Adel Abunawass, Smiljana Petrovic, Deborah Whitfield (2011) Untangling the maze of pedagogical strategies for introductory programming: panel discussion, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 26 Issue 6, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Epstein,S. L. and S. Petrovic (2011) Learning Expertise with Bounded Rationality and Self-awareness (M.T. Cox and A. Raja, editors). MetaReasoning: Thinking about Thinking, MIT Press

Frances Bailie, Keitha Murray, Smiljana Petrovic, Deborah Whitfield (2010) Incorporating ethics into the computer science curriculum: multiple perspectives, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges , Volume 25 Issue 3, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Petrovic, S and S. L. Epstein (2008). Tailoring a Mixture of Search Heuristics. Constraint Programming Letters 4:15--38, 2008

Epstein, S. L. and S. Petrovic (2008). Learning Expertise with Bounded Rationality and Self-awareness. In Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Metareasoning, Chicago, AAAI.

Petrovic, S. and S. L. Epstein (2008). Random Subsets Support Learning a Mixture of Heuristics. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), pp. 501-520.

Petrovic, S., S. L. Epstein and R. J. Wallace (2007). Learning a Mixture of Search Heuristics. Workshop on Autonomous Search, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming CP-07, Providence, Rhode Island.

Epstein, S. L. and S. Petrovic (2007). Learning to Solve Constraint Problems. Workshop on AI Planning and Learning, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS-07, Providence, Rhode Island.

Petrovic, S. and S. L. Epstein (2007). Preferences Improve Learning to Solve Constraint Problems. Workshop on Preference for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-07 pp. 71-78, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Petrovic, S. and S. L. Epstein (2007). Random Subsets Support Learning a Mixture of Heuristics. In Proceedings of 20th International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 616-621, Key West, Florida.

Petrovic, S. and S. L. Epstein (2006). Relative Support Weight Learning for Constraint Solving. Workshop on Learning for Search, AAAI-06, pp. 115-122, Boston, Massachusetts.

Petrovic, S. and S. L. Epstein (2006). Full Restart Speeds Learning. In Proceedings of the 19th International FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, Florida.