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C.S. Dept 1991 Publications

1992 publications publication index 1990 publications

Cercone, N., and Gardin, F. (eds.) (1991) Computational Intelligence, III. North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0-444-89118-8, 325 pps.

Cai, Y., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1991) Learning in Relational Databases: An Attribute Oriented Approach. Computational Intelligence 7(3), NRCC, 119-132.

Pattabhiraman, T., and Cercone, N. (1991) Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation. Computational Intelligence 7(4), NRCC, 199-206.

McFetridge, P., and Cercone, N. (1991) Installing an HPSG Parser in a Modular Natural Language Interface, Computational Intelligence III, North Holland, Amsterdam, 169-178.

Cai, Y., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1991) Attribute Oriented Induction in Relational Databases, in G. P. Shapiro (ed.) Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI Press, 213-228.

Cercone, N., McFetridge, P., Hall, G., and Groeneboer, C. (1991) An unnatural natural language interface. Research in Humanities Computing, Hockey, S. and Ide, N (eds), Oxford Univ. Press, 285-306, also appearing in 16th ALLC/9th ICCH, Toronto.

Lunardi, C., and Cercone, N. (1991) An AI-oriented Videodisc Experiment to Improve Interethnic Relationships at School, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Quebec.

Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1991) Concept-Based Data Classification in Relational Databases, Proceedings of AAAI-91 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Anaheim, 77-94.

Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N. (1991) Expert System for Selection of Chemical Solvents for CO2 Removal Processes, Proceedings of 41st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N. (1991) Inferential Modelling for an Expert System for Selection of Chemical Solvents for CO2 Removal Processes, Procs of the 4th Mexican Artificial Intelligence Conf., Cancun, Mexico.

Cercone, N., McFetridge, P. and Pattabhiraman, T. (1991) Sophisticated Natural Language Interfaces, Possibility or Chimaera. 2nd Japanese-Australia Symp. on Natural Language Processing, Kyushu, Japan, 304-315.

Lunardi, C., Groeneboer, C., and Cercone, N. (1991) The Impact of an Experiment in Interethnic Communication on the Design of a Generic Multimodal Architecture for Human-Computer Communication, Proceedings IEEE ISCOM '91, Tainan, Taiwan, 650-656.

Chan, C. and Benbasat, I. (1991), "Case Research on Knowledge Acquisition: Observations and Lessons", The Knowledge Engineering Review, 6 (2), p. 97-120.

Chan, C.W., Cercone, N., Jennings, R.E., and Tontiwachwuthikul, P., "Inferential Modelling Technique for Semantic Representation of Domain Knowledge", Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Cancun Mexico, 13-15 November 1991, p. 208-214.

Chan, C.W., Cercone, N., and Tontiwachwuthikul, P., "Expert System for Selection of Chemical Solvents for Carbon Dioxide Removal Processes", Proceedings of the Forty-first Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Vancouver Canada, 6-9 October 1991.

Jennings, R.E., Chan, C.W., and Dowad, M., "Generalized Inference and Inferential Modelling", Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'91), Sydney Australia, 24-30 August 1991, p. 1046-1051.

Chan, C.W., Jennings, R.E., and Tontiwachwuthikul, P., "Inferential Modelling Tehcnique for Constructing Second Generation Knowledge-Based Systems", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Data Engineering, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Scoeity, Kobe Japan, 8-12 April 1991, p. 582-589.

S.D. Goodwin, E. Neufeld, and A. Trudel, 1991, Probabilistic Regions of Persistence, European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches for Uncertainty, R. Kruse and P. Siegel (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, No. 548, pp. 182-189, [also Acadia University Computer Science TR-91-04, 1991].

S.D. Goodwin, 1991, Incrementally Computing Preferred Explanations, 4th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Cancún, México, pp. 180-186.

   (Also in Proceedings of the 4th UNB Artificial Intelligence
   Symposium, L. Goldfarb and B.G. Nickerson (eds.), Fredericton, NB.,
   pp. 9-19, 1991.)
S.D. Goodwin, 1991, Statistically Motivated Defaults, PhD dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 170 pages, [also University of Regina Computer Science TR-CS-91-03, 1991].

R. Goebel, G. Ferguson, S.D. Goodwin, A. Sattar, P. Fitzsimmons, B. Wong, and D. Lanovaz, 1991, XTheorist: Release Notes and Installation Instructions, Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 48 pages.

Dyck, J.M. and Hamilton, H.J., "Using Subgoal Ordering to Generate Programming Environment Routines," in Proc. of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Informatics, ITESM (Monterrey) and International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Cancun, Mexico, November, 1991, pp.543-549; also in Graduate Review, Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, November, 1991, pp.122-134.

Johnson, G. M. & J. A. Johnson, & R. E. deMatta. (1991). Predictive exploration of educational-failure paradigms. Canadian Journal of Special Education, 7(2): 164-180.

Johnson, G. M. & J. A. Johnson. (1991). Teacher-student discordance and teacher recommendations. Canadian Journal of Special Education, 7(1): 74-85.

"An Expert System for Solving Retrograde Analysis Chess Problems." Roberts C.H. Law and R.B. Maguire, Computational Intelligence, III, N. Cercone and F. Gardin (editors), G. Vale (co-editor), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1991, 229-236.

H. Raafat, Q. Xiao and D. Gauthier, "An Extended Relational Database for Remotely Sensed Image Data Management within GIS", IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 4, 1991, pp. 651-655.

X. Qinghan and H. Raafat, "Fingerprint Image Postprocessing: A Combined Statistical and Structural Approach", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 24, o. 10, 1991, pp. 985-992.

X. Qinghan and H. Raafat, "Combining Statistical and Structural Information for Fingerprint Image Processing, Classification and Identification", in Pattern Recognition: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications, Eds. R. Plamondon and H. Cheng, World Scientific Publications, 1991, pp. 335-354.

X. Yang, Q. Xiao and H. Raafat, "Direct Mapping Between Histograms: An Improved Interactive Image Enhancement Method", 1991 IEEE Inter. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Charlottesville, Virginia, Oct. 91, Vol 1, pp. 243- 247.

M. Abd-El-Barr, M. Sinkinson and H. Raafat, "A Switch-Level Simulator for CMOS VLSI Circuits Using Evaluation Nets', 4th Inter. Symposium on IC Design, Manufacture & Applications, Singapore, Sep. 91, pp. 615-621.

Z. Yang, H. Raafat and D. Gauthier, "A Temporally Oriented Spatial Data Model for GIS", The Canadian Conf. on Geographic Information Systems (GIS-91), Ottawa, Canada, March 18-21, 1991, pp. 571-583.

Saxton L. V., "Object Ids vs valued-based tags", Indiana University, Database Seminar, July 8, 1991.

Saxton L. V., "Tagging as an alternative to creating new objects", Dagstuhl-Seminar on Query Processing in Object-Oriented, Complex Object, and Nested Relation Databases, Schloss Dagstuhl, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 20, 1991.

Saxton L. V., "Optimization of nonmonotonic queries", Indiana University, Database Seminar, January 22, 1991.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao, G. Salton and C. Buckley, "Evaluation of an Adaptive Linear Model", Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 42, No. 10 (1991), 723-730.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao, P. Bollmann and H.C. Burger, "Axiomatization of Qualitative Belief Structure", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1991), 726-734.

S.K.M. Wong and Y.Y. Yao, "A Probabilistic Inference Model for Information Retrieval", Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1991), 301-321.

S.K.M. Wong, P. Bollmann and Y.Y. Yao, "Information Retrieval Based on Axiomatic Decision Theory", General Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1991), 101-117.

S.K.M. Wong, P. Lingras and Y.Y. Yao, "Towards Implementing Valuation Based Systems with Relational Databases", Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (Charlotte, 1991), 172- 182.

Y.Y. Yao and S.K.M. Wong, "Preference Structure, Inference and Set-oriented Retrieval", Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (Chicago, 1991), 211- 218.

S.K.M. Wong, P. Lingras and Y.Y. Yao, "Propagation of Preference Relations in Qualitative Inference Networks," Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, (Sydney, Australia, 1991), 1204-1209.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao and P. Lingras, "Compatibility of Qualitative and Quantitative Representations of Belief", Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, (Los Angeles, 1991), 418-424.

Y. Xiang, B. Pant, A. Eisen, M. P. Beddoes and D. Poole, ``PAINULIM: A Neuromuscular Diagnostic Aid Using Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Belief Networks'', Proc. ISMM International Conference on Mini and Microcomputers in Medicine and Healthcare, Long Beach, CA, 64-69, 1991.

Yang, X.D. 1991. Schematic Modeling for Simulation of Physical Systems, Advance in Modeling & Simulation, Vol.25, No.4, pp.25-36.

Madjitey, J., X.D. Yang and A.G. Law. 1991. Volume Rendering Using An Integer Line Integral Algorithm, Congressus Numerantium, Vol.80, pp.117-128.

Yang, X.D., Q. Xiao and H. Raafat. 1991. Direct Mapping between Histograms: an Improved Interactive Image Enhancement Method, Proc. of IEEE 91 Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Charlotteville, Virginia.

Wang, N.Q., X.D. Yang and L.R. Symes. 1991. Scale-Space Filtering and Threshold Hierarchy for Image Segmentation, Proc. of Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Quebec, pp.20.4.1-20.4.4.

Wang, C. and X.D. Yang. 1991. Geometric Model-Driven Simulation for Dynamic Systems Consisting of Rigid and Elastic Components, Proc. of IASTED Int. Conf. on Modeling and Simulation, Calgary, pp.179-183.

Chau, W.K., M. Wong, X.D. Yang and S.J. Wan. 1991. On the Selection of Color Basis for Image Compression, Proc. of IEEE 91 Data Compression Conf., Snowbird, Utah.

Yang, X.D. 1991. Multi-level Abstractions for General Purpose Efficient Simulations in Mechanical Engineering, Proc. of 1991 Western MultiConference on Computer Simulation, Anaheim, CA, pp.12-18.

C. N. Zhang and H. D. Cheng, "High-Speed Single Error Correcting Converter for Residue Number Processing", IEE Proc. Part E, Vol. 138, No. 4, July 1991, pp 177-182.

C. N. Zhang, H. F. Li and R. Jayakumar, "A General Model for Concurrent Error Detection in Systolic Arrays", ISMM/IASTED 4-th International. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington, D. C., Oct. 1991, pp 267-271.

C. N. Zhang, "Systematic Designing Systolic Arrays for Computing Multiple Problem Instances", Canadian Conf. on VLSI (CCVLSI '91), Kingston, Ont, Aug. 1991, pp 4A2.1-4A2.8.

C. N. Zhang and H. D. Cheng, "Mapping Multiple Problem Instances into a Single Systolic Array with Application to Concurrent Error Detection", IEEE 20th International Conf. on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, IL, Aug. 1991, pp I668-I669.

H. D. Cheng and C. H. Zhang, "A Novel Neural Network for Program Solving", International Conf. on Advanced Computer Tech., Reliable System, Bologna, Italy, May 1991, pp 497-501.

C. N. Zhang and H. D. Cheng, "A High Speed Error Correcting Converter for Residue Number Processing", International Conf. on Advanced Computer Tech., Reliable System, Bologna, Italy, May 1991, pp 816-820.

C. N. Zhang, A. G. Law and A. Rezazadeh, "Designing VLSI Systolic Arrays with Complex Processing Elements", Proc. First Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, Kalamazoo, MI, Mar. 1991, pp 207-213.

Ziarko, W. P., Structural optimization: case-based approach (with Arciszewski, T.) . Computing in Civil Engineering, Journal of American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 5, no. 2, 1991, 159-174.

Ziarko, W. P., Development of reaction engineering model by discovering rules from process data (with Szladow, A.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Anaheim, 1991.

Ziarko, W. P., The discovery, analysis and representation of data dependencies in databases. In Piatetsky-Shapiro, G. and Frawley, W.J. (eds.) Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI Press/ MIT Press,1991,177-195.

Ziarko, W. P., The discovery, analysis and representation of data dependencies in databases. In Piatetsky-Shapiro, G. and Frawley, W.J.(eds.) Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI Press/ MIT Press, 1991, 177-195.

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