C.S. Dept 1993 Publications

Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1993) Data Driven Discovery of Quantitative Rules in Relational Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 5(1), 29-41.

Han, J., Huang, Y., and Cercone, N. (1993) Intelligent Query Answering Using Discovered Database Knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 5(4).

Vogel, C., Popowich, F., and Cercone, N. (1993) Logic-Based Inheritance Reasoning. Prospects for Artificial Intelligence. A. Sloman, et al. (eds.), IOS Press, Burke VA.

Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1993) Object Aggregation and Cluster Identification: A Knowledge Discovery Approach. Third International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Beijing, 2.41-2.45.

Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1993) Discovery of Knowledge Associated with Concept Hierarchies in Databases. Third International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Beijing, 2.106-2.110.

Vogel, C., Popowich, F., and Cercone, N. (1993) Logic Based Inheritance Reasoning, Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence Simulation and Behaviour 93. also Prospects for Artificial Intelligence, Morris Sloman (editor), IOS Press.

Pattabhiraman, T. and Cercone, N. (1993) Decision-Theoretic Salience Interactions in Language Generation, 12th IJCAI, Chambery, France, 1246-1252.

Xiang, Y., Wong, M., and Cercone, N. (1993) Quantifying Uncertainty of Knowledge Discovered from Databases, International Workshop On Rough Sets And Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), Banff, 51-60.

Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1993) An Attribute-Oriented Rough Set Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, International Workshop On Rough Sets And Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), Banff, 79-94.

Cercone, N. (1993) Human-Computer Interfaces: DBLEARN and SystemX, International Workshop On Rough Sets And Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), Banff, 27-28.

Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N. (1993) Object-Oriented Approach to Developing the Solvent Selection Advisory System for CO2 Removal Processes, Proceedings of 43rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, 242. also an enlarged version appeared in Proceedings of the Symposium on Expert Systems in Process Industries, Ottawa, 31-35.

Chan, C.W., "Development and Application of a Knowledge Modelling Technique", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, accepted December 21, 1993.

Chan, C.W., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N., "Object Oriented Approach to developing the Solvent Selection Advisory System for CO2 Removal Processes", Proceedings of the Forty-third Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 4-6 October 1993, p. 242.

Chan, C.W., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N., "Object Oriented Approach to Developing the Solvent Selection Advisory System for CO2 Removal Processes", Proceedings of the Symposium on Expert Systems in Process Industries, Ottawa, Canada OCt. 6, 1993, p. 31-35.

S.D. Goodwin and A. Sattar, 1993, On Computing Preferred Explanations, Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 45-52.

S.D. Goodwin, 1993, Interpolation, Extrapolation, and Belief Revision in Discrete Temporal Knowledge Bases, Reflections on the Future Proceedings, p. 11, University of Alberta, September 1993.

S.D. Goodwin, 1993, Q-SIS(T): A Qualitative Statistical Inheritance System for Temporal Reasoning, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, pp. 247-253.

S.D. Goodwin and H.J. Hamilton, 1993, An Inheritance Mechanism for Default Reasoning that Learns, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, pp. 234-239.

S.D. Goodwin, M. Mahroos, and E. Neufeld, 1993, IDNAF Prolog, University of New Brunswick Artificial Intelligence Symposium, L. Goldfarb (ed.), Fredericton, New Brunswick, pp. 149-157.

S.D. Goodwin and H.J. Hamilton, 1993, Q-SIS: A Qualitative Statistical Inheritance System, Sixth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 17-21.

S.D. Goodwin, E. Neufeld, and A. Trudel, 1993, Extrapolating Definite Integral Information, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on AI and Statistics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 249-254.

Goodwin, S.D., Hamilton, H.J., Neufeld, E., Sattar, A., and Trudel, A., "Belief Revision in a Discrete Temporal Probability-Logic," Proceedings of the 93 Workshop on Belief Revision: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice, AI'93, 1993 Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, November 1993, pp.103-112. Also appeared in FLAIRS-94, pp.334-341.

Fudger, D.F. and Hamilton, H.J., "Heuristic Evaluation of Databases for Knowledge Discovery with DBLEARN," RSKD'93: International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery, Banff, Canada, October, 1993, pp.29-39. Preliminary version of book chapter.

Goodwin, S.D. and Hamilton, H.J., "An Inheritance Mechanism for Default Reasoning that Learns," International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, September, 1993, pp.234-239.

Goodwin, S.D. and Hamilton, H.J., "Q-SIS: A Qualitative Statistical Inheritance System," Proceedings of FLAIRS-93 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April, 1993, pp.17-21.

Hamilton, H.J. and Zhang, J., Learning Pronunciation Rules for English Graphemes Using the Version Space Algorithm, Tech. Report 93-2, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, December, 1993, 107 pages.

Johnson, J. A. (1993). Letter (Toward intelligent acceptance). Computational Linguistics, 19(2): 405--406.

Johnson, G. M. & J. A. Johnson. (1993). Teacher-student discordance: Accounting for predictive error of over-identification. School Psychology International, 14(3): 255--273.

Johnson, J.A. (1993). Optymalizacja bez Obliczen: Zastosowanie Sztucznej inteligencji do planowania organizacji produkcji Optimization without computation: An application of artificial intelligence to product scheduling in manufacturing. Fourth National Conference on Robotics Vol.1, pp 235-242. Wroclaw, Poland: Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Technical University of Wroclaw.

Konopka, J., "Applying A Moment-Based Pattern Recognition Technique to Medical Images", with A. Law and P. Dickof, Congressus Numerantium Valume 92, April 1993

"Integrating Databases and Expert Systems." Hazem Raafat, Zhongsen Yang and R. B. Maguire, International Journal of Science and Technology, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1993, 20-30.

"Design of a User Adaptive Diagnostic System." Zhihai Cai and R.B. Maguire, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1-4 1993, 87-93.

"A Critical Survey of Intelligent Tutoring Systems." R.C.H. Law and R.B. Maguire, Congressus Numerantium 92, April 1993, 55-64.

Computer Technology for Higher Education, Volume I: An Overview. R. Brien Maguire et al, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1993.

Computer Technology for Higher Education, Volume III: The Canadian Experience. R. Brien Maguire et al, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1993.

"Technology Trends." R.B. Maguire, International Seminar on Computerization of Universities, New Delhi, Feb. 15-17 1993.

"Technology, Expertise and Transfer: Computing Systems." R.B. Maguire and D. Lim. In: Volume 28, Western Geographical Series, Trade Opportunities: Saskatchewan/Canada - Shandong/China. Edmund H. Dale (editor), 1993, University of Victoria, 125-143.

F.D. Fracchia, L.V. Saxton, (1993), "Approximation algorithms for scheduling on uniform processors", INFOR, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1993, 16-23.

M. Gyssens, L.V. Saxton, D. Van Gucht, (1993), "Tagging as an alternative to creating new objects", Chapter 8 of Query Processing for Advanced Database Systems, C. Freytag, D. Maier and G. Vossen Eds., Morgan Kaufman Publishing, San Mateo CA, 1994, 201-242.

V.M. Sarathy, L.V. Saxton, D. Van Gucht, (1993), "Algebraic foundation and optimization for object based query languages", In The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (Vienna, Austria, April 1993), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos CA, 1993, 81-90.

Saxton, L. V., "Complexity issues in supporting queries involving intermediate sets in relational database systems", Tenth International Conference on Logic Programming - Workshop on Logic Programming with Sets, Budapest, Hungary, June 24, 1993.

Saxton, L. V., "Algebraic foundation and optimization for object based query languages", The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Vienna, Austria, April 21, 1993.

L. Colby, L.V. Saxton, D. Van Gucht, (1993), "A polynomial-time query language for list-based complex objects", Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Technical Report No. 395, December 1993.

L.V. Saxton, L.S. Colby, D. Van Gucht, (1993), "Complexity issues in supporting queries involving intermediate sets in relational database systems", Computer Science Department, University of Regina, Technical Report CS-93-01, June 1993, extended abstract In Record of Tenth International Conference on Logic Programming - Workshop on Logic Programming with Set, (Budapest, Hungary, June 1993), E.G. Omodeo, G. Rossi, Eds., Budapest,1993, 47-50.

S.K.M. Wong, P. Bollmann-Sdorra and Y.Y. Yao, "A Measurement- Theoretic Axiomatization of Fuzzy Sets", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 60, No. 3 (1993) 295-308.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao and P. Lingras, "Comparative Beliefs and Their Measurement", General Systems, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1993), 69-90.

S.K.M. Wong and Y.Y. Yao, "A Probabilistic Method for Computing Term-by-Term Relationships", Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 44, No. 8 (1993), 431-439.

C.W.R. Chau, P. Lingras and S.K.M. Wong, "Upper and Lower Entropies of Belief Functions Using Compatible Probability Functions", Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (Trondheim, Norway, 1993).

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao and L.S. Wang, "An Application of Rough Sets in Knowledge Synthesis", Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (Trondheim, Norway, 1993).

S.K.M. Wong, Y.J. Cai and Y.Y. Yao, "An Application of Neural Networks in Adaptive Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks", (San Francisco, 1993), 1667-1671.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.Y. Yao and P. Bollmann-Sdorra, "Qualitative Fuzzy System Structure", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (San Francisco, 1993), 857-862.

S.K.M. Wong, Y.J. Cai and Y.Y. Yao, "Computation of Term Associations by a Neural Network", Proceedings of the 16th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (Pittsburgh, 1993), 107- 115.

S.K.M. Wong and Z.W. Wang, "Qualitative Measures of Ambiguity", Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, (Washington, D.C., 1993), 443-450.

S.K.M. Wong and Z.W. Wang, "Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Ignorance", IJCAI-93 Workshop on the Management of Uncertainty in AI, (Chambery, France, 1993).

X.D. Yang, W. Chan and S.K.M. Wong,"Multi-scale Orientation Estimation for Unstructured Point Sets", Proceedings of the 1993 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, (Vancouver, 1993).

Y. Xiang, S.K.M. Wong and N. Cercone, "Quantifying Uncertainty of Knowledge Discovery from Databases", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), (Banff, 1993).

S.K.M. Wong and X. Nie, "Rough Sets: A Special Case of Interval Structure", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), (Banff, 1993).

M. Hadjimichael and S.K.M. Wong, "Fuzzy Representations in Rough Set Approximatations", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery (RSKD-93), (Banff, 1993).

Y. Xiang, D. Poole and M. P. Beddoes, ``Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks and Junction Forests for Large Knowledge Based Systems'', Computational Intelligence Vol.9, No.2, 171-220, 1993.

Y. Xiang, B. Pant, A. Eisen, M. P. Beddoes and D. Poole, ``Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks for Neuromuscular Diagnosis'', Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.5, 293-314, 1993.

J. Jones, Y. Xiang and S. Joseph, ``Bayesian Probabilistic Reasoning in Design'', Proc. IEEE Ninth Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, 501-504, 1993.

Yang, X.D. and V. Gupta, 1993. An improved threshold selection method for image segmentation. Proc. 1993 Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, pp.531-534.

Yang, X.D., W. Chau, and M.S.K. Wong, 1993. Multi-resolution orientation estimation for unstructured point sets. Proc. 1993 Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanvouver, pp.527-530.

Yang, X.D. and L. Yang, 1993. Error reduction for geometric constraints in dynamic simulation. Proc. IASTED 93 Intl. Conf. on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, pp.54-57.

C. N. Zhang, H. F. Li and R. Jayakumar, "A Systematic Approach for Designing Concurrent Error Detecting Systolic Arrays Using Redundancy", Journal of Parallel Computing, Vol. 19 (1993), pp 745-764.

C. N. Zhang, B. Shirazi and D. Y. Y. Yun, "An Efficient Algorithm and Parallel Implementation for Binary and Residue Number Systems", Journal of Symbolic Computations, Vol. 15, Apr. 1993, pp 451-462.

C. N. Zhang, "An Improved Binary Algorithm for RSA", International Journal of Computer & Math with Applications, Vol. 25, No. 6 Jan. 1993, pp 15-24.

H. F. Li, C. N. Zhang and R. Jyakumar, "Space-time Mapping, Latency of Data Flow and Concurrent Error Detection in Systolic Arrays", IEE Proc. Part E, Vol. 140, No 1, Jan. 1993, pp 33-44.

C. N. Zhang and B. S. Christian, "A Systematic Approach to Design of Fault Tolerant Systolic Arrays", Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 92, April 1993, pp 213-224.

M. Wang and C. N. Zhang, "2-D Mapping of Chaotic Behavior in Simple Neural Networks", Congressus Numerantium, Vol 92, April 1993, pp 155-160.

C. N. Zhang, M. Wang, C. C. Tseng and W. K. Chou, "Residue Array Processors for Neural Networks", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dec. 1993, Taipei, Taiwan, pp 717-721.

Z. Lin, C. C. Tseng and C. N. Zhang, "The Design of an Efficient data-Driven Pipelined Computer Architecture", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dec. 1993, Taipei, Taiwan, pp 158-161.

H. D. Cheng, C. Xia and C. N. Zhang, "A Parallel Approach to Character Recognition and its VLSI Implementation", SPIE Visual Communications Conf. '93, Nov. 1993, Cambridge, MA, pp 62-73.

A. G. Law, A. Rezazadeh, J. Walters, J. H. Weston and C. N. Zhang, "A Simulation System for Systolic Arrays", European Simulation Symp., Oct. 1993, Delft Netherlands, pp 495-500.

M. Wang, C. N. Zhang and G. Z. Yao, "On the Canonical Form of Dynamics and a Dual System Model for Neural Networks", International Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN '93), Oct. 1993, Nagoya, Japan, pp 421-424.

G. C. Hau and C. N. Zhang, "A Parallel Algorithm for Thinning Binary Patterns", The First Chinese Word Congress on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation (CWC ICIA '93), Aug. 1993, Beijing, pp 1749-1754.

C. N. Zhang, M. Wang and G. Z. Yao, "Calculus Relations in Spatial Summation and Determination of Macro Connection in Neural Networks", International Conf. on Neural Networks (ICNN '93), Mar. 1993, San Francisco, pp 365-370.

Ziarko, W.P., An incremental algorithm for constructing decision rules (with Shan, N.). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery, RSKD'93, Banff 1993, 335-346. Also in Ziarko, W. (ed.) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Knowledge Discovery, Springer Verlag 1994, 326-334.

Ziarko, W.P., Variable precision rough sets with asymmetric bounds (with Katzberg, J). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery, RSKD'93, Banff 1993, 163-191. Also in Ziarko, W. (ed.) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Knowledge Discovery, Springer Verlag 1994, 167-177.

Ziarko, W.P., Adaptive process control using rough sets (with Szladow, A.). Proceedings of the International Conference of Instrument Society of America, ISA/93, Chicago 1993, 1421-1430.

Ziarko, W.P., The first international workshop on rough sets: state of the art and perspectives. AI Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3,1993, 29-31.

Ziarko, W.P., Variable precision rough sets model. Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, vol. 46, no. 1, 1993, 39-59.

Ziarko, W.P., Rough sets: working with imperfect data (with Szladow, A.) AI Expert, vol. 8, no. 7, 1993, 36-41.

Ziarko, W.P., Analysis of Uncertain Information in the Framework of Variable Precision Rough Sets . Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, vol. 18, no. 3-4, 1993, 381-396.

Ziarko, W.P., An application of Datalogic/R knowledge discovery tool to identify strong predictive rules in stock market data (with Edwards, D. and Golan, R.). Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Washington D.C. 1993, 93-101.

Ziarko, W.P., Rough sets approach to system modelling and control algorithm acquisition ( with Katzberg, J.). Proceedings of IEEE WESCANEX 93 Conference, Saskatoon 1993, 154-163.

Ziarko, W.P., Application of rough sets theory to process control (with Szladow, A.). Proceedings of Calgary 93 Symposium of Instrument Society of America, Calgary 1993.

Ziarko, W.P., Machine learning and knowledge acquisition in civil engineering (with Arciszewski, T.). In Arciszewski, T. (ed.) Knowledge Acquisition in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers,1992, 50-69.