C.S. Dept 1988 Publications

Kao, M., Cercone, N., and Luk, W.S. (1988) Providing Quality Responses with Natural Language Interfaces: the Null Value Problem. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 14(7) July, 959-984.

McCalla, G., and Cercone, N. (1988). Artificial Intelligence in Canada: A Review, Readings from the AI Magazine, Robert Englemore (ed.), AAAI, Menlo Park, California, 603-612.

McFetridge, P., Hall, G., Cercone, N., and Luk, W. (1988) System X: a portable natural language interface, 7th CSCSI/SCEIO, Edmonton, Alberta, 30-38.

McFetridge, P., Hall, G., and Cercone, N. (1988) Knowledge acquisition in System X: a natural language interface, International Computer Science Conference, Hong Kong, 604-610.

Hall, G., Luk, W., and Cercone, N. (1988) A solution to the MAP problem in natural language interface construction, International Computer Science Conference, Hong Kong, 351-359.

Cercone, N., McFetridge, P., and Hall, G. (1988) Building portable natural language interfaces. Informatique et Langue Naturelle, Universite de Nantes, Nantes, 181-202.

S.D. Goodwin, 1988, Reasoning in Temporal Domains: Dealing with Independence and Unexpected Results, in Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Morgan-Kaufmann, Palo Alto, pp. 46-52.

P. Fitzsimmons, S. Miller, and S.D. Goodwin, 1988, AAAI-88: The Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Canadian Artificial Intelligence, No. 18, pp. 23-27.

Hamilton, H., "CSCSI Conference," Canadian Artificial Intelligence, October, 1988, pp.46-49.

Hamilton, H. and Hamilton, S. (ed.), "CIAR Graduate Student Workshop on Knowledge Representation," Canadian Artificial Intelligence, October, 1988, pp.39-46.

Hamilton, H.J., Methods of Formalizing Common Sense, Tech. Report 88-8, Laboratory for Computer and Communication Research, Simon Fraser University, 1988, 27 pages.

H.M. Raafat and A.K.C. Wong, "A Texture Information - Directed Region Growing Algorithm for Image Segmentation and Region Classification", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 43, No. 1, 1988, pp. 1-21.

P.W. Van Havere and H.M. Raafat, Computer Simulation: An Overview and a Review of Languages and Methods", Inter. Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1988, pp. 29-43.

A.S. Mohamed and H.M. Raafat, "Recognition of Heart Sounds and Murmurs for Cardiac Diagnosis", 9th International Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Rome, Italy, Nov. 1988, pp. 1009-1011.

G. Lakshmikanth, H.M. Raafat, M. Abd-El-Barr and R. Bolton, "Design of Systolic Processor for Texture Distance Computation", Inter. Conf. on Microelectronics, Algiers, Algeria, Nov. 1988.

P.W. Van Havere and H.M. Raafat, "Railway Train Traffic Simulation Study", 19th Annual Pittsburgh Conf. on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1988, Vol. 19, Part 1, pp. 251-259.

A.S. Mohamed and H.M. Raafat, "Automatic Discrimination Between Heart Sounds and Murmurs Using Parametric Models", IEEE 1988, Inter. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Beijing and Shenyang, China, Aug. 1988, pp. 147-150.

M. Giridhar, S. Tandri, M. Abd-El-Barr and H.M. Raafat, "VLSI Systolic Implementation of the Transportation Simplex Algorithm for Texture Distance Computation", Ibid., pp. 1136-1140.

F. Li, L.V. Saxton, (1988), "Minimizing response time for two-way distributed joins in partitioned databases", Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 61, May 1988, 39-48.

F. Li, L.V. Saxton, (1988), "Two-way join optimization in partitioned database systems", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Database Theory, (Bruges, Belgium, August 1988), M. Gyssens, J. Paredaens and D. Van Gucht Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 326, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, 191-204.

S.J. Wan, S.K.M. Wong and P. Prusinkiewicz, "An Algorithm for Multidimensional Data Clustering", ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1988), 153-162.

Z. Pawlak, S.K.M. Wong and W. Ziarko, "Rough Sets: Probabilistic versus Deterministic Approach", International Journal of Man- Machine Studies, Vol. 29 (1988), 81-95.

J. Lin and S.K.M. Wong, "Approximation of Discrete Probability Distributions Based on a New Divergence Measure", Congressus Numerantium, (Winnipeg, 1988), 75-80.

J. Lin and S.K.M. Wong, "On the Characterization of a New Directed Divergence Measure", Proceedings of 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (Tokyo, 1988).

P. Lingras and S.K.M Wong, "An Optimistic Rule for Accumulation of Evidence", Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (Torino, 1988), 60-69.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao and P. Bollmann, "Linear Structure in Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (Grenoble, 1988), 219-232.

Y. Xiang and S. Yang, ``A New Method for Passive Clock Synchronization and Self-Positioning of Time Division Multiple Access Communication and Position Location System'', J. of China Institute of Communications, Vol. 9, 2: 89-93, 1988.

Yang, X.D. and K. Perlin. 1988. Modeling of Textured Complex 3D Surfaces of Real Objects and Its Rendering Algorithm, Proc. of International Conference on Computer Graphics'88, Singapore.

Yang, X.D. 1988. Design of Fast Connected Components Hardware, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp.937-944.

Yang, X.D. 1988. Fuzzy Disk Modeling and Rendering of Textured Complex 3D Surfaces of Real Objects, Ph.D. Thesis, New York University, Feb. 1989; also TR-414, Courant Institute, New York University.

Yang, X.D. 1988. Design of Fast Connected Components Hardware, TR-346, Courant Institute, New York University.

Yang, X.D. and K. Perlin. 1988. An Efficient Approximation of Penumbra Shadow, TR-353, Courant Institute, New York University.

Ziarko, W. P., Rough sets: probabilistic versus deterministic approach (with Pawlak, Z. and Wong S.K.M.). International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 29, 1988, 81-95. Reprinted in Gains, B. Boose, J. (eds) Machine learning and uncertain reasoning, vol. 3, Academic Press, 1990, 227-242.

Ziarko, W. P., An expert system for conceptual schema design: a machine learning approach (with Yasdi, R.). International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 29, 1988, 351-376. Reprinted in Gains, B. Boose, J. (eds.) Machine learning and uncertain reasoning, vol. 3, Academic Press, 1990, 165-190.

Ziarko, W. P., Acquisition of design knowledge from examples. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 10, no. 8, 1988, 551-554.

Ziarko, W. P., Verification of morphological table based on probabilistic rough sets approach (with Arciszewski, T.). Particulate Science and Technology : An International Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 1988, 193-205.

Ziarko, W. P., Inductive shallow approach for generation of engineering models (with Hajdo, P. Arciszewski, W. Aktan, H.). Proceedings of the 9-th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria, 1988, 933-940.