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Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Cercone, F’IEEE Curriculum Vitae

Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Cercone, F’IEEE

Curriculum
Vitae

September 2006

 

Personal

Born:                                18 December 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Current Address:          319 Runnymede Rd., Toronto, Ontario. M6S 2Y5

Telephone:                    ((home) or (416) 736-5051(office)

Fax:                                  (416) 736-5950

Email:                              ncercone@yorku.ca

 

Education

BS                             1968               The University of Steubenville (Engineering Science)

MS                            1970               The Ohio State University (Computer and Information Science)

Ph.D.                        1975               The University of Alberta (Computing Science)

 

Professional Experience

2006-     Professor
and Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON.

2004-     Adjunct
Professor
. Computer Engineering Department, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi (Thailand)

2003-     Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.

2002-2006 Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

2002-     Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

2002-     Academic Advisor, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2000-01                Academic Consultant, Faculty of
Science, Saltan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

1997-2002 Professor, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

2001-2002  Visiting Professor. Computer Engineering
Department, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thonburi (Thailand)

1997-2002  Professor and Chair, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Since assuming
the Chair of Computer Science, we have added 28 bright new faculty members
(from 1993-1997 Computer Science was unable to hire any new faculty). In
addition new interdisciplinary programs have begun, including bioinformatics,
healthcare informatics, digital media, and software engineering. I am most
proud of the software engineering new degree program, which is administered
jointly by Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. By putting
the good of the students above all other concerns, Waterloo was able to join
forces with the two most dynamic departments on campus despite belonging to different
Faculties. Fund raising has been a big part of this position and we have worked
hard on the Nortel, Bell, Bank of Nova Scotia, QNX, etc., who have benefited
both Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo.

1997-     Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK.

1997-1997  Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Regina SK.

1993-1997  Associate Vice-President Research & Dean
of Graduate Studies
, Univ. of Regina, Regina, SK. also International
Liaison Officer and Technology Transfer Officer

In charge of
three portfolios in Regina, each one was improved, reflected my particular
biases. In four years 22 new international agreements were signed with foreign
organizations, primarily universities and governments. Student exchanges
flourished, especially from Asian and African students. The amount of grant
funding nearly tripled at the University in four years, and in two of those
years the University of Regina led the nation in the percentage increase of
NSERC grants. I initiated the Center for Advanced Systems (CAS) and wrote a
major installation proposal to NSERC that was funded to initiate the CAS as a
reality. During that same period, nine new graduate programs were started,
including six interdisciplinary programs, e.g., the new masters in manufacturing
which combined expertise from the Engineering Faculty, Computer Science
Department and the Faculty of Administration. Internal funding programs to seed
projects were started and a special graduate student conference became a yearly
event with Proceedings published.

1988-1995  Associate Member, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

1987-1992  Director, Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

As the initial
Director of the Centre for Systems Science (CSS), with an annual budget of
$3.2M, I developed the CSS infrastructure, programs, staff, and computing
network support group into a successful broadly based research infrastructure
for advanced systems research. The CSS applied its funds judiciously to
leverage $25M in new funds into Simon Fraser researcher’s projects in a
five-year period. By 1992 the CSS had 120 faculty members from five Faculties,
focussed on interdisciplinary research in three broad areas: microelectronics,
intelligent systems, and computing. Under my tutelage, the CSS helped to
initiate the micromachining laboratory and the optical characterization
laboratory at SFU. The CSS Scholarships were highly visible, as were the
strategic initiative grants. The CSS also created 12 new faculty positions, six
each in Engineering and Computer Science. The CSS provided computer
infrastructure services to over 120 faculty and 200 graduate students. As
Director, I was SFU’s representative to the BC Advanced Systems Institute (for
whom I wrote their initial proposal). Although the CSS was established with
Engineering and Science in mind, the entire University benefited from the
breadth of programs and the quality of adjudication of internal fund programs.

1986-1987  Visiting Professor, University of Victoria British Columbia.

I spent one
year visiting Computer Science at the University of Victoria at the request of
Eric Manning, the new Dean of Engineering. Eric had requested that I help him
to establish the Laboratory for Automation, Communication and Information
Research (LACIR) and the move of Computer Science into Engineering. I wrote
several proposals for UVictoria to help accomplish these items.

1985-1995  Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

1980-1985  Associate Professor & Chair, Computing
Science, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, B C.

During this
term as Chair, I helped to evolve the Computer Science Program into the School of Computing Science. We increased the School to 28 faculty from 7 faculty and also
the overall personnel to 42 people (from 18). We developed a strong program in
digital systems design at this time in computing science. Together with Gord
McCalla, we initiated and edit the international journal Computational
Intelligence, initially published by the National Research Council of Canada
(NRCC) and now by Blackwell’s, Publisher. I began to take on national roles, as
president of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Society (CSCSI/SCEIO) and as
president of the Canadian Society for 5th Generation Research.

1980-1980  Visiting Associate Professor, Math &
Computing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, N.Y.

I was selected
to chair computing science in 1980 and took a leave for one semester to develop
a long-range plan for the department. I visited Rensselaer and helped them to
develop a graduate program, taught engineers programming, and helped Rensselaer to develop their curriculum.

1976-1980  Assistant Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

I became the
fifth faculty member in the then new computer science program at Simon Fraser.
Initially I taught six courses per year and developed the curriculum. In my
second year I developed the graduate program, both the masters and doctoral
proposals.

1975-1976  Assistant Professor, Math & Computer
Science, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA.

Old Dominion
hired its initial five computer scientists in 1975 with students entering their
4th year and expecting computer science degrees. The new faculty, myself
included, set about to revising the curriculum in the month before Fall classes
began in order to maximize the academic program of the existing students. I was
called upon to design curriculum and teach new courses for new Computer Science
program. I initiated a reading room and a technical reports series.

1972-1975  Ph.D. Student & Instructor, Computing
Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.  

Granted
another study leave from IBM to pursue a Ph.D. in computing science, I enrolled
primarily as a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta and taught data
structures courses.

1971-1972  Instructor, Systems Development, IBM
Corporation, Poughkeepsie, New York.  

Returning to
IBM after a two year’s leave of absence to pursue my masters, I was reassigned
to IBM education and taught and developed File and Data structures courses
including Job Control Language (JCL), Internal Operating System (OS) Logic,
logic design, etc. Typically IBM Systems engineers took these courses. From
time to time I was sent to Burlington, Vermont to teach specialized design
courses to IBM circuit designers (prior to VLSI technology).

1970-1971  Lecturer, Computer & Information
Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

After completing
my masters in computer and information science, with nearly a year remaining on
my two year IBM leave of absence, I was asked and taught and developed upper
level undergraduate systems and programming courses, including operating
systems and systems programming, for the Ohio State University. At the same
time I was employed half time in the Ohio State University Computer Center and was responsible for consulting services to other University customers,
e.g., agricultural engineers would seek my advice on program requirements and
documentation.

1969-1970  Programmer, Systems Development, IBM
Corporation, Poughkeepsie, New York.

After spending
3 months in IBM programmer training, I wrote design automation programs for
IBM’s Engineering Information Systems (EIS) Project for nearly one year. This
project employed 145 programmers and designers and I worked on it for the third
of its six years lifetime. I distinguished myself by becoming the first
programmer to successfully navigate all seven EIS subsystems, which were
constantly under revision, thus illustrating “proof of concept” to the chief
designer and his design team. I was responsible for implementing the dependency
selection section of the system, which permitted IBM computer engineers to
specialize versions of the IBM System 360-model xx for particular requirements
for individual customers.

1965-1968  Junior Designer, Peter F. Loftus
Consulting Engineers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Each summer
for four months I returned to Peter Loftus to work as a junior designer
(internship). Essentially I was a draftsman and drew design layouts for
structural steel fabrication, mechanical piping layouts, concrete and asphalt
designs for buildings, and electrical layouts. Although my drawings were
checked by a senior design engineer, I was encouraged to test designs of my own
from time to time, e.g., I designed a brake for an elevator for a 28 story
building to stop the elevator in the event of a free fall. [My design was
significantly modified before putting it into use]. I enjoyed this work and got
on well with the resident architects and engineers, especially my supervisor,
Red Rohrs.

Note: Throughout my career, research engagement and
research supervision have played an important role. I have produced over 300
refereed publications, graduated over 60 graduate students under my direct
supervision, including 16 Ph.D. students, and have been involved on numerous
national and international program committees as chair, member, steering
committee member, etc. The most recent projects for which I have been involved
as research director are listed below; all of them have involved significant
industrial participation. Work of these projects have been supported by over
$15M of research grant or research contract funding. I have consulted to Boeing
Corporation, Open Text Corporation, Showbase Media, Rogers Cablesystems, SaskTel,
Knowledge-Junction Systems Inc., Glaxo-Wellcome Inc. and others.

Professionally
I have also held positions of influence on NSERC committees (often as a site
visit chair) including grant selection committees. I served twice on the
Steacie committee, CFI & CRC committees, NRCC articulation committees, the
Genome Assessment of Technology Committee, the CANARIE Board, theme coordinator
and project leader of the IRIS NCE, various United States NSF Committees, and
so on. I have become involved in numerous national and international
activities, serve on half a dozen editorial boards, and have served on numerous
Provincial and Federal committees. Most fondly, I think of myself as a teacher
and faculty member at Dalhousie University.

Professional Societies

IEEE                                   Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Fellow

ACM                                Association for Computing
Machinery – member

ACL                                  Association for
Computational Linguistics – member

ALLC                                Association for Literary
and Linguistic Computing – member

AAAI                                American Association for
Artificial Intelligence – member

CSCSI/SCEIO                 Canadian Society for
Computational Studies of Intelligence  (Pres1982/4)

CSFGR/SCRSCG           Canadian Society for 5th Generation
Research  (President 1985/90)

CACS/AIC                      Canadian Association of
Computer Science  (Founding President 1991-1994)

TCDE                                IEEE Tech. Cmte. on Data
Engineering  (Vice President 1991-1997)

ICDM                               IEEE Steering Committee
Data Mining (2000- )

TCCI                                 IEEE Tech. Cmte on
Computational Intelligence, Steering Committee (2001-)

WI/IAT                             IEEE Steering Cmte. on
Web Intelligence. Intelligent Agent Technology (2003-)

RSFDGrC                        Advisory
Board (2003-)

Research and Teaching Interests

Artificial Intelligence (including automated natural language
understanding, computational linguistics, and knowledge representation);
Knowledge-Based Systems (including knowledge discovery, data analysis and data
mining), Human-Machine Interfaces (including natural language and multimedia
interfaces)

Research Projects

My primary research objectives
include: (1) learning, knowledge discovery (KDD), data mining and analysis, and
KDD visualization, and (2) design and implementations of natural language (NL)
and multimodal interfaces to databases and information systems. Secondary
research objectives include: (1) developing formal representations for
automated NL understanding (NLU); (2) classification and rule induction from
large datasets; (3) machine translation architectures using HPSGs; (4) natural
language access to internet search engines; (5) inferential modeling for
knowledge-based systems; and (6) automatic generation of coherent NL discourse.

SYSTEMX, our prototype
natural language interface (English to SQL translator) to relational databases
resulted in several state-of-the-art advances. These advances include design
and implementation of an HPSG parser for multiple domains, inheritance
reasoning for HPSG, learning of semantic & syntactic information through
dialog, computing & utilizing correct navigation (join path) information
during interface usage, and portability. We stimulate “technology transfer”
with Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. (customer service), Environment Canada
(information holdings), SaskTel (marketing) and NSERC (grants information
database). We applied SYSTEMX technology in cooperation with Sask Health; this
collaboration resulted in the HERMES database interface to a simulated Sask health database.

HERMES is a Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) based natural language interface (NLI) for
ad-hoc queries on a medical database. HPSG is a syntactical based grammatical
formalism that unifies a phrase into a single meaning. NLIDB (natural language
interface to a database) for medical databases. This interface is named Hermes.
This is in recognition of both his ability as a messenger between gods and
mortals and for his staff, the cadecus, that is used as a symbol by the medical
profession. This system strives to improve the communication between the user
and the database. The present Hermes system is implemented in a SGI IRIX
environment to access the medical database designed by Weidong Yu.

DBLEARN, our initial
database learning system, performs knowledge discovery in databases. Using
attribute-oriented induction with set-oriented database operations, we extract
generalized data from databases. An attribute-oriented concept tree ascension
technique is applied in generalization, substantially reducing the
computational complexity of database learning processes. Characteristic,
discrimination, association, and statistical (evolution) rules can be
discovered using this approach. DBDISCOVER improved the efficiency of
DBLEARN 1000-fold and has been transferred to industry (Rogers Cablesystems,
Paradigm, Showbase & SaskTel).

DBROUGH further refines
the data mining capabilities by applying rough sets technology to the final
generalized relation (from DBLEARN) and, without loss of information, further
reduces the final generalized relation. GRG (generalize, reduce,
generate) amalgamates the best of DBDISCOVER and DBROUGH. We plan to augment
and integrate the DBLEARN family with SYSTEMX.

Machine translation has fascinated and frustrated researchers
for over 50 years. Recent successes in statistical, nonlinguistic and hybrid systems
have given hope that we will not be confined to the traditional direct, transfer
and intralingual approaches that have dominated in the past. We provide an
approach from computer science methodology: generate and repair machine translation.
(GRMT).

GRMT comprises three phases: Analysis Lite MT, Translation
Candidate Interpretation (TCI) and Repair and Iterate (RI). ALMT generates
translation candidates (TC) by considering syntactic and semantic differences between
language pairs without performing any sophisticated analysis. This ensures that
the TC can be generated quickly, simply and efficiently. Next, the system
interprets the TC to see if it retains the meaning of the SL. If so, that TC
will be considered a translation. If not, that TC will be repaired based on the
diagnosis indicated in the TCI phase.. Subsequently the repaired TC will be
re-interpreted to determine if it still has a different meaning from the SL.
These two processes iterate until the TC conveys the same meaning as the SL.
The TCI and RI stages ensure the accuracy of the translation result.  They also
guarantee translation accuracy.

GRMT treats SL and TL separately and is aware of differences
between languages. Thus, if languages can be grouped according to various
characteristics, e.g., auxiliary verb, continuous tenses, passive voice, etc.,
which they have in common, then the translation between groups can be performed
more simply by GRMT. For example: Group 1 consists of English, French and
Spanish, Group 2 consists of Chinese, Japanese and Thai. To perform the
translation between these two groups, the transfer approach requires six SL
analyzers, six TL generations and 18 sets of transfer rules while GRMT requires
six SL TCIs, six TL TCIs and 2 sets of constraint applications. 

ELEM2 is a rule induction and classification system
that induces decision rules from a set of observed data and classifies new
examples by applying the induced rules. ELEM2 is distinguished from other rule
induction systems in that it employs several new strategies in the induction
and classification processes. ELEM2 uses a new heuristic function for
evaluating attribute-value pairs in the induction process. The function
reflects the degree of relevance of an attribute-value pair to a target concept
and leads to selection of the most relevant pairs for formulating rules. ELEM2
handles inconsistent training examples by defining an unlearnable region of a
concept based on the probability distribution of that concept in the training
data. The unlearnable region is used as a stopping criterion for the concept
learning process, which resolves conflicts without removing inconsistent
examples before rule induction. ELEM2 employs a new rule quality measure for
the purpose of handling imperfect data by post-pruning generated rules. The
measure is defined according to the relative distribution of a rule with
respect to positive and negative examples and is chosen from four alternatives
that represent different kinds of distributions. Experiments to evaluate ELEM2
compared ELEM2 with two standard rule induction methods, C4.5 and CN2, on both
artificial and real-world datasets. Our results show that ELEM2 produces better
classification accuracies than C4.5 and CN2 on most of the tested datasets. We
are actively engaged in technology transfer of ELEM2 with Knowledge Junction
Systems Inc.

ELEM2-CBR is a learning and problem solving system
that integrates rule induction and case-based reasoning. ELEM2-CBR employs a
new weighting method, called relevance weighting, to assess similarities
between cases. Relevance weighting method makes use of rule induction results
to assign weights to attribute-value pairs of the query case. Cases in the case
base can be ranked according to their probability of relevance to the new case.
ELEM2-CBR performs both classification and numeric prediction under a mixed
paradigm of rule-based and case-based reasoning. We applied ELEM2-CBR to water
demand prediction. Results from this application compared favorably with
results from a time series prediction method.

HYRIS (Hybrid Rough Set Intelligent System
Architecture for Survival Analysis) is a comprehensive intelligent system for
survival data analysis. HYRIS circumvents two challenges for survival analysis.
HYRIS performs survival data analysis with consideration of censor variables,
hypothesis testing and reducts/probe reducts that are original in our study.

 

Our research with HPSG parsers and
with KDD is considered pioneering work in both areas (KDD Newsletter). We were
among the initial research teams to become involved in the development of the
theory of both. Primary and secondary research activity described facilitates
some of our IRIS NCE, NSERC Strategic grant, CITO grant and industrial contract
and more applied research activity.

Publications

Books

Cercone, N. (ed.) (1983) Computational Linguistics.
Permagon Press, Oxford, U.K. ISBN 0-08-030253-X, 245 pps.

Cercone, N., and McCalla, G. (eds.) (1987) The Knowledge
Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge. Springer-Verlag, Symbolic
Computation Series, New York, ISBN 3-540-96557-2, 552 pps.

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

Wu, Xu, Ichikawa, Tadao, and Cercone, Nick (1996)
Knowledge-Based Assisted Database Retrieval Systems. World Scientific
Publishers, Singapore, ISBN 981-02-1850-8, 232 pps.

Lin, T. Y., and Cercone, Nick (eds.) (1997) Rough Sets and
Data Mining: Analysis of Imprecise Data. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 436 pps.

Liu, J., Liu, C., Klusch, M.,
Zhong, N., Cercone, N. (eds.) (2003) Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), IEEE Computer Society Press,
California, USA.

 

Papers Appearing in Refereed Journals

1.   Cercone, N. (1975) The Nature and Computational Use of
a Meaning Representation for Word Concepts. American J. of Computational
Linguistics 2, AJCL Microfiche 34, 64-81.

2.   Cercone, N. (1978) Morphological Analysis and Lexicon
Design for Natural Language Processing. Computers and the Humanities 11,
235-258.

3.   Cercone, N., and Mercer, R. (1980) Design of Lexicons
in Some Natural Language Systems. Journal of the Association of Literary and
Linguistic Computing 1, 37-51.

4.   Cercone, N. (1981) Some Problems in Representing
Grammatical Modifiers. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence 4, 357-368.

5.   Cercone, N, Krause, M., and Boates, J. (1983) Minimal
and Almost Minimal Perfect Hash Function Search with Application to Nat. Lang.
Lexicon Design. Computers and Mathematics 9(1), 215-232.

6.   McCalla, G, & Cercone, N. (1983) Approaches to
Knowledge Representation. IEEE Computer 16(10), 12-18.

7.   Cercone, N., and Goebel, R (1984) Data Bases and
Knowledge Representation for Literary and Linguistic Studies. Computers and the
Humanities 17(3), 121-138.

8.   Cercone, N., and McCalla, G. (1984) Artificial
Intelligence: Underlying Assumptions and Basic Objectives. American Journal for
Information Science 35(5), 280-290.

9.   McCalla, G., and Cercone, N. (1984) Artificial
Intelligence: A National Synopsis. INFOR 22(4), 299-302.

10.  McCalla, G., and Cercone, N. (1985) Techniques and
Issues in the Design of Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems. Computers and
Mathematics 11(5), 421-430.

11.  Cercone, N., and Murchison, C. (1985) Integrating Artificial
Intelligence in Literary Research: An Invitation to Discuss Design
Specifications. Computers & the Humanities 19(4), 235-243.

12.  Cercone, N., Boates, J., and Krause, M. (1985) An
Interactive System for Finding Perfect Hash Functions. IEEE Software 2(6),
38-55.

13.  Strzalkowski, T., and Cercone, N. (1986) A Framework
for Computing Extra Sentential References. Computational Intelligence 2(4),
NRCC, 159-180.

14.  Hafer, L., Cercone, N., McLaughlin, G., and Murchison,
C. (1987) A Contemporary Design for an Academic Computing Facility. IEEE
Transactions on Education E-30(3), 174-185.

15.  Cercone, N. (1987) Finding & Applying Perfect Hash
Functions. Applied Mathematics Letters 1(1), 25-29.

16.  Cercone, N., (1987) Knowledge Representation: An
Overview. Indian Journal of Technology 25, 521-543.

17.  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.

18.  Cercone, N., and Krause, M. (1989) An Informal
Analysis of Perfect Hash Function Search. Applied Mathematics Letters 2(3),
287-292.

19.  Strzalkowski, T. and Cercone, N. (1989) Non Singular
Concepts in Natural Language Discourse. Computational Linguistics 15(4),
171-187.

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

21.  Cercone, N., Goebel, R., de Haan, J., and Schaeffer,
S., (1992) The ECO Family Summary, Special Issue of Computers and Mathematics
on Semantic Networks, F. Lehmann (ed.), 23(2-5), 95-132.

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

23.  Kuttner, E., Havens, W., and Cercone, N. (1992)
Processing Natural Language with Schema Constraint Networks. Computers and
Mathematics, 24(11), 3-10.

24.  Cercone, N., and Pattabhiraman, T. (1992) Introduction
to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation (continued). Computational
Intelligence 8(1), Blackwell’s Pub., 72-76.

25.  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.

26.  Cercone, N., Han, J., McFetridge, P., Popowich, F.,
Cai, Y., Fass, D., Groeneboer, C., Hall, G., and Huang, Y. (1994) SystemX and
DBLearn: easily getting more from your Relational Database. invited for
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, F. Golshani (ed.), 1(4), 311-339.

27.  Cercone, N., and McCalla, G. (1994) Ten years of
Computational Intelligence. Computational Intelligence 10(4), Blackwell’s Pub.,
1-6.

28.  Xiang, Y., Wong, M., and Cercone, N. (1995)
Quantification of Uncertainty in Classification Rules Discovered from
Databases, Computational Intelligence 11(2), Blackwell’s, 427-441.

29.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1995) Learning in Relational
Databases: A Rough Set Approach, Computational Intelligence 11(2), Blackwell’s
Pub., 323-338.

30.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N., and Shan, N. (1995) A Rough
Set Approach to Compute All the Maximal Generalized Rules from Databases,
Journal of Computing and Information (special issue from – 6th Int. Conference
on Computing and Information – ICCI’94) 1(1), 1078-1089.

31.  Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N.
(1995) Knowledge Engineering for a Process Design Domain. International Journal
of Expert Systems: Research and Applications 8(1), 47-76.

32.  Wu, X., Cercone, N., and Ichikawa, T. (1995) A
Knowledge-Based System for Generating Informative Responses to Indirect
Database Queries. Intelligent Information Systems 5, Kluwer Academic, 5-23.

33.  Han, J., Cai, Y., Cercone, N. and Huang, Y. (1995)
Discovery of Data Evolution Regularities in Large Databases. Journal of
Computer and Software Engineering (a special issue on Methodologies and Tools
for Intelligent Information Systems), 3(1), 41-69.

34.  Shan, N., Hamilton,H. and Cercone, N. (1996) GRG:
Knowledge and Discovery Using Information Generalization, Information
Reduction, and Rule Generation, special issue of the International Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Tools 5(1&2), 99-112.

35.  Han, J., Huang, Y., Cercone, N. and Fu, Y. (1996)
Intelligent Query Answering by Knowledge Discovery Techniques. IEEE Trans on
Knowledge and Data Engineering 8(3), 373-390.

36.  An, A., Shan, N., Chan, C., Cercone, N., and Ziarko,
W. (1996) Discovering Rules from Data for Water Demand Prediction. Journal of
Intelligent Real-Time Automation: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
9(6), Pergamon, Elsevier Science Ltd., 645-654.

37.  Wu, X., and Cercone, N. (1996) A graphical
User-Interface for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. International Journal of
Intelligent Real-Time Automation: Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence. 9(6), Pergamon, Elsevier Science Ltd., 691-700.

38   Y. Xiang, S.K.M. Wong and N. Cercone,  (1997) A
‘Microscopic’ Study of Minimum Entropy Search in Learning Decomposable Markov
Networks, Machine Learning 26, 65-92.

39.  An, A., Chan, C., & Cercone, N. (1997) An
Application of Knowledge Discovery Techniques for Prediction of Consumption for
Water-Supply Network Control, IEEE Expert , 72-78.

40.  Hilderman, R., Carter, C., Hamilton, H., and Cercone,
N.,  (1998) Mining Association Rules from Market Basket Data Using Share
Measures and Characterized Itemsets, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Tools 7(2),189-220.

41.  Cercone, N., An, A., and Chan, C. (1999) Rule
Induction and Case-Based Reasoning: Hybrid Architectures appear Advantageous,
IEEE  Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 11(1), 166-174.

42.  Naruedomkul, K., Cercone, N. , and Sirinaovakul, B.
(1999) English-Thai Translation: Initial Experiments with a Multiphase
Translation Sys., Computational Intelligence 15(2), 128-151.

43.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1999) Data Mining via
Discretization, Generalization and Rough Set Feature Extraction, Knowledge and
Information Systems: An Int. Journal 2(2), 33-60.

44.  Hilderman, R.J., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.
(1999) Data Mining in Large Databases Using Domain Generalization Graphs, J. of
Intelligent Information Systems 13, 195-234.

45.  Huang, X., Robertson, S.E., Cercone, N., and An, A.
(2000) Probability-based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval, Computational
Intelligence, 552-569.

46.  Han, J., and Cercone, N. (2000) Visualizing The
Process Of Knowledge Discovery, J of Electronic Imaging,  special issue on
Visualization & Data Analysis (Edward R. Dougherty; Ed.), SPIE Journals,
404-420).

47.  An, A., and Cercone, N. (2001) Rule Quality Measures
for Rule Induction Systems: Description and Evaluation, Computational
Intelligence, 17(3), 409-424.

48.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (2001) Discovering Maximal
Generalized Decision Rules Through Horizontal and Vertical Data Reduction, Computational
Intelligence, 17(4), 685-702.

49.  Naruedomkul, K., and Cercone, N. (2002) Generate and
Repair Machine Translation, Computational Intelligence, 18(3), 254-270.

50.  Abou-Asseleh, T., and Cercone, N., (2003) Relaxed
Unification – Proposal, Applied Mathematics Letters, Elsevier-Science, New York, 747-751.

51.  Cercone, N., Hou, J., Kešelj, V., An, A.
Naruedomkul, K., and Hu, X.  (2002) Computational Intelligence to Web
Intelligence, IEEE Computer, 35(11), 72-76.

52.  Wang, Y., and Cercone, N. (2002) Fast Searches In A
Recommendation Session, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Elsevier Science
Ltd., 1265-1274.

53   Xiang, Y., Lee, J., and Cercone, N. (2004)
Parameterization of Pseudo-independent Models, special issue of International
Journal of Intelligent Systems IJIS, 749-768).

54.  Xiang, Y., An,X., and Cercone, N. (2003) Simulation of
Graphical Models for Multiagent Probabilistic Inference, SIMULATION:
Transactions of Society for Modeling and Simulation International 79 (10),
545-567.

55.  Kešelj, V., and
Cercone, N. (2003) A graph unification machine for NL parsing, Computers &
Mathematics with Applications, 46 (2003) 393-419

56.  Huang, X., Peng, F., Schuurmans, D., Cercone, N., and
Robertson, S. (2003). Applying Machine Learning to Text Segmentation for
Information Retrieval, Journal of Information Retrieval, Kluwer Pubs., 6(3),
333-362.

57.  Wu, X., Yu, P., Piatetsky-Shapiro, G., Cercone, N.,
Lin, T.Y., Kotagiri, R. and Wah, B. (2003) Data Mining: How Research meets
Practical Development, Knowledge and Information Systems 5(2), 248-261.

58.  Han, J., Hu, X. and Cercone, N. (2003) A visualization
model of interactive knowledge discovery systems and its implementations,
Information Visualization 2: 105-125.

59.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (2004) A Data Warehouse/OLAM
Framework for Web Usage Mining and Business Intelligence Reporting, International
Journal of Intelligent Systems, 585-606.

60.  Xiang., Y., Lee, J., and Cercone, N. (2004) Towards
Better Scoring Metrics For Pseudo-Independent Models, International Journal of
Intelligent Systems IJIS, 749-768.

61.  An, A., Huang, Y., Huang, X., and
Cercone, N. (2004)  Feature Selection with Rough Sets for Web Page
Classification. Transactions on Rough Sets II
(Peters, J. et al., Eds.), Springer,
1-13.

62.  Pattaraintakorn , P., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2005) Rule Learning: Ordinal Prediction based on Rough Sets and
Soft-Computing, Applied Mathematics Letters, Elsevier-Science, New York, to appear.

63.  Narupiyakul, L., Khumya, A., Sirinaovakul, B., and
Cercone, N. (2005) A Stochastic Knowledge-Based Text to Speech System,
Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 42, Elsevier Science Ltd., 1-16.

64.  Li, Jiye and Cercone, N. (2006) Introducing a rule
importance measure, Transactions on Rough Sets, Springer, to appear.

65.  Pattaraintakorn, P., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2006) Hybrid Rough Sets Intelligent System Architecture for Survival Analysis,
Transactions on Rough Sets, Springer to appear.

66.  Keselj, V. and Cercone, N. (2006) A Formal Approach to
Subgrammar Extraction for NLP. Applied Mathematics Letters, Elsevier Science,
to appear.

67.  Li, J. and Cercone, N. (2006) Discovering and Ranking
Important Rules, Journal of Intelligent Systems special issue (T.Y. Lin &
J. Han, eds),  (to appear).

68.  Nuntiyagul, A. and Cercone, N. (2006) A Keyword
Selection Method for Item Bank Text Categorization, Computational Intelligence,
special issue of best of Pacling, Blackwells, (to appear).

 

Editorships of Journals

1.   Cercone, N.
(Editor-in-chief) for Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer, 2004-  .

2.   Cercone, N., and McCalla, G., co-editors,
Computational Intelligence, an International Journal published by the National
Research Council of Canada from 1984-1991 and by Blackwell’s of Oxford from
1992-2002.

3.   Ling, C., and Cercone, N. (guest editors) for MINING
THE WEB Special Issue of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science,
13(4), 2002

4.   Special issue on Web Intelligence (WI) for Computational
Intelligence, An International Journal,
Blackwell Publishers (2002) (Guest
editors: Ning Zhong, Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao, and Nick Cercone)

5.   Special issue on Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular
Computing for Computational Intelligence An International Journal, Vol.
17, No. 3, Blackwell Publishers (2001) (Guest editors: Andrzej Skowron, Nick Cercone,
and Ning Zhong)

6.   Cercone, N., and Tsuchiya, M., guest editors, Special
Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering on Learning and
Discovery in Knowledge-Based Databases, 5(6), 1993.

7.   Pattabhiraman, T., and Cercone, N., guest editors,
Special Issue of Computational Intelligence on Natural Language Generation,
7(4), November, 1991 and carrying over into 8(1), February, 1992.

8.   Cercone, N., and McCalla, G., guest editors, Special
Issue of the International Journal of Computers and Mathematics on Practical
Artificial Intelligence Systems, 11(5), May, 1985.

9.   McCalla, G., & Cercone, N., guest editors, Special
Issue of IEEE Computer on Knowledge Representation, 16(10), 1983.

10.  Cercone, N. guest editor, Special Issue of the
International Journal of Computers and Mathematics on Computational
Linguistics, 9(1), January, 1983.

Book Articles

1.   Schubert, L., Cercone, N., and Goebel, R. (1979) The
Structure and Organization of a Semantic Net for Comprehension and Inference.
in Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Machine, N. Findler
(ed), Academic Press, New York, 121-175.

2.   Cercone, N. (1980) The Representation and Use of
Knowledge in an Associative Network for the Automatic Comprehension of Natural
Language. invited essay for Natural Language Based Computer Systems, L Bolc
(ed), Carl Hanser Verlag, Muchen, 121-207.

3.   Cercone, N., and Goebel, R. (1981) Approaches to
Knowledge Representation. invited for Empirical Semantics, B. Rieger (ed),
Brockmeyer, Bochum Pubs., West Germany, 92-138.

4.   Cercone, N, and McCalla, G. (1986) Accessing Knowledge
Through Natural Language. Invited chapter for M.Yovits 25th Anniversary Issue
Advances in Computers series, Academic Press, 1-99.

5.   Cercone, N., and McCalla, G. (1987) What is Knowledge
Representation. The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of
Knowledge. N. Cercone and G. McCalla (eds), Springer-Verlag, 1-43.

6.   Reghbati, H., and Cercone, N. (1987) On
Representational Aspects of VLSI-CADT Systems. The Knowledge Frontier: Essays
in the Representation of Knowledge. N. Cercone and G. McCalla (eds),
Springer-Verlag, 451-470.

7.   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.

8.   Cercone, N., Hall, G., Joseph, S., Kao, M., Luk, W.,
McFetridge, P., and McCalla, G. (1990) Natural Language Interfaces: Introducing
SystemX. Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering. T. Oren
(ed), JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn., 169-250.

9.   Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1990) Discovery of
Quantitative Rules from Large Databases, in Z.W. Ras and M. Zemankova (eds.)
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 5, North Holland, 157-165.

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

11.  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.

12.  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.

13.  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.

14.  Cercone, N., Joseph, S., Kao, M., Luk, W., and
McCalla, G. (1994) A Knowledge-Based Approach to Providing Quality Responses
from and Eliminating Unnecessary Database Accesses to Relational Databases with
Natural Language Interfaces. Advances in Computing in the Humanities. E. Nissan (ed), JAI Press.

15.  Cercone, N. McFetridge, P., Han, J. and Popowich, F.
(1994) Human-Computer Interfaces: DBLEARN and SystemX. Rough Sets Workshop,
Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing series, W. Ziarko (ed), 32-43.

16.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1994) An
Attribute-Oriented Rough Set Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Databases,
Rough Sets Workshop, Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing, W. Ziarko (ed),
90-99.

17.  Xiang, Y., Wong, M., and Cercone, N. (1994)
Quantifying Uncertainty of Knowledge Discovered from Databases, Rough Sets
Workshop, Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing series, W. Ziarko (ed), 63-73.

18.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Ziarko, W. (1996) Generation
of Multiple Knowledge from Databases Based on Rough Set Theory, Rough Sets and
Data Mining: Analysis of Imprecise Data. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 109-122.

19.  Cercone, N., Hamilton, H., Hu, X., and Shan, N. (1996)
Data Mining Using Attribute-Oriented Generalization and Information Reduction,
Rough Sets and Data Mining: Analysis of Imprecise Data. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
199-228.

20.  Cercone, N., and Hamilton, H. (1999) Database Mining,
Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 4, Wiley Interscience,
576-604.

21.  Cercone, N., and Naruedomkul, K. (1999) Natural
Language Processing, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering x,
Wiley Interscience, 397-432.

22.  Mahalingam, G., and Cercone, N. (1999) Finding
Information Easily is Important for e-Business!, Data Warehousing and Data
Mining for  Electronic Commerce  W. Kou (ed.), IBM Press, 135-168).

23.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (2002) A Generalized
Rough Set Model for Data Mining, to appear in a Kluwer Book edited by T.Y. Lin
and Y. Yao.

24.  Han, J., Cercone, N., and Hu, X. (2002) Data Mining
and Visualization of (Association) Rules, to appear in a Kluwer Book edited by
T.Y. Lin and Y. Yao.

25.  Cercone, N., Hou, J., Kešelj, V., An, A. and
Naruedomkul, K. (2002) From Computational to Web Intelligence. Selected topics
in Computing and Information Sciences, Misra, J.C. (ed.), Computing
and Information Sciences: Recent Trends, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 162-177.

26.  An, A., Huang, Y., Huang, X., and Cercone, N. (2003).
Feature Selection with Rough Sets for Web Page Classification, Rough Set and
Fuzzy Set Theories, to appear.

 

Papers Appearing in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1.   Cercone, N., and Schubert, L. (1975) Toward a
State-Based Conceptual Representation. 4th IJCAI (International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Tbilisi, USSR, 83-91.

2.   Cercone, N. (1977) Representing Adjectives and
Adverbs. 5th IJCAI, Cambridge, Mass. 139-140.

3.   Cercone, N. (1977) A Heuristic Morphological Analyzer
for Natural Language Understanding Programs. IEEE Compsac, Chicago, Illinois, 676-682.

4.   Goebel, R., and Cercone, N. (1978) Representing and
Organizing Factual Knowledge in Proposition Networks. 2nd CSCSI/SCEIO (CDN
Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence), Toronto, Ontario, 55-63.

5.   Cercone, N. (1978) Representing Natural Language in
Extended Semantic Networks for Interpretation and Comprehension by Machine. 5th
ALLC (Assoc. for Literary & Linguistic Cmpt.), Birmingham, U.K., 141-174.

6.   Cercone, N, and Goebel, R. (1979) Semantic Networks,
Frames, and Conventional Data Base Methodology. IFIP Database Conference,
Hanover, N.H. in Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, J. Raben and
G. Marks, N. Holland, 1980, 61-66.

7.   Cercone, N. (1979) Representing and Processing
Grammatical Modifiers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary
and Linguistic Computing, Israel, 247-262.

8.   Cercone, N. (1979) A Precis on Semantic Networks.
WECOL IX, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Fourth ICCH (International
Conference on Computing in the Humanities), Hanover, N.H.

9.   Cercone, N, and Krause, M. (1981) Lexicon Design Using
Perfect Hash Functions. 5th ICCH, Ann Arbor, Michigan, also SIGSOC Bulletin 13,
Jan 1982, 69-78.

10.  Cercone, N., and Goebel, R. (1982) Knowledge
Representation and Data Bases: Science or Engineering. 4th CSCSI/SCEIO, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 172-183.

11.  McCalla, G., and Cercone, N. (1984) Directions for
Canadian Artificial Intelligence. CIPS Session ’84, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 191-198.

12.  Cercone, N., Hafer, L., and Murchison, C. (1984) A
Contemporary Modular Design for Computing Science Instructional Laboratories:
The Simon Fraser University Experience, IEEE EDCOMPCON- 84, San Jose, Calif., 21-28.

13.  McCalla, G., and Cercone, N. (1984) Canadian
Artificial Intelligence in the Next Decade: Funding, Strategies, and the Role
of the CSCSI/SCEIO, 5th CSCSI/SCEIO, London, Ontario, 167-176.

14.  Cercone, N., Hadley, R., Martin, F., McFetridge, P.,
and Strzalkowski, T. (1984) Designing and Automating the Quality Assessment of
a Knowledge Based System: The Initial Automated Academic Advisor Experience,
IEEE Principles of Knowledge Based Systems, Denver, Colorado, 193-205.

15.  Cercone, N., Krause, M., and Boates, J. (1985)
Efficient Search of Large Lexicons Using Perfect Hash Functions. 1983
International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities Social Sciences, New
Brunswick, N.J., published by Paradigm Press, 359-373.

16.  Martin, F., and Cercone, N. (1985) Automating the
Quality Assessment of Interactive Systems, CIPS Congress ’85, Montreal, Quebec, 440-447.

17.  Cercone, N., Hafer, L., and Murchison, C. (1985)
Designing a Modular Computing Science Instructional Laboratory, CISA ’85,
Montreal, Quebec, 226-233.

18.  Best, B., and Cercone, N. (1985) An Empirical Study of
Some Pattern Matching Algorithms, CIPS Congress ’85, Montreal, Quebec, 417-421.

19.  Cercone, N., and Murchison, C. (1985) Integrating Artificial
Intelligence in Literary Research: An Invitation to Discuss Design
Specifications. 12th ALLC Symposium, Nice, France. also Computers and the
Humanities, Centre for Comp. in the Humanities, New College, Toronto, 1986,
160-175.

20.  Strzalkowski, T., and Cercone, N. (1985) A Framework
for Computing Extra Sentential References, Theoretical Approaches to Natural
Language Understanding, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 107-116.

21.  Kao, M., Cercone, N., and Luk, W. (1986) What do you
mean Null? Turning Null Responses into Quality Responses. 3rd Int. Conf. on
Data Engineering, Los Angeles, Ca., 356-365.

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

23.  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.

24.  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.

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

26.  Cercone, N. (1989) An unnatural natural language
interface. 16th ALLC/9th ICCH, Toronto.

27.  Cercone, N. (1989) Better Tools for Professionals:
Knowledge Based Systems – Panel 1 Discussion/ Questions, IFIP ’89, San Francisco, 191-192.

28.  Cai, Y., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1989) Learning
Classification Rules in Relational Databases, Proc. of IJCAI-89 Workshop on
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Detroit, 26-36.

29.  Cai, Y., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1989) Learning
Characteristic Rules in Relational Databases, 2nd International Conference on
Computational Intelligence, Milan, Italy, 187-196.

30.  Cai, Y., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1989) An Attribute
Oriented Approach for Learning Classification Rules in Relational Databases,
6th International Conf. on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, 281-288.

31.  Pattabhiraman, T. and Cercone, N. (1989) Representing
and Using Protosemantic Knowledge in Generating

House, India, 341-352. Also
published as v 444, Lecture Notes in AI, Springer-Verlag.

32.  Cercone, N., Fass, D., Hall, G., Groeneboer, C., Kao,
M., McFetridge, P. and Popowich, F. (1990) Using Relational Knowledge
Structures to Handle Null Value Situations in Natural Language Interfaces. 5th
Rocky Mtn Conf. on AI (RMCAI-90), Las Cruces, NM. 137-142.

33.  Fass, D., Cercone, N., Hall, G., Groeneboer, C.,
McFetridge, P. and Popowich, F. (1990) A Classification of User-System
Interactions in Natural Language, with Special Reference to “Ill-Formed Input.”
5th Rocky Mountain Conf. on AI (RMCAI-90), Las Cruces, NM. 143-148.

34.  Pattabhiraman, T. and Cercone, N. (1990) Selection,
Salience, Relevance & the Coupling between Domain-Level Tasks and Text
Planning. 5th International Workshop on Language Generation, Pittsburgh, 79-86.

35.  Pattabhiraman, T. and Cercone, N. (1990) Evaluating
Natural Language Generation Systems for Theoretical Merit. Procs of the AAAI-90
Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Generation Systems, Boston.

36.  Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1990) Discovery of
Quantitative Rules from Large Databases. ISMIS ’90, Knoxville.

37.  Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1990) Support of
Efficient Deduction and Induction Mechanisms in Data-Intensive Knowledge-Based
Systems, in AAAI-90 Wkshop on Knowledge-Based Mgmt Sys, Boston, 41-45.

38.  McFetridge, P., and Cercone, N. (1990) The Evolution
of a Natural Language Interface: Replacing a Parser, 3rd International
Conference on Computational Intelligence, Milan, Italy, 169-178.

39.  Pattabhiraman, T. and Cercone, N. (1990) Aspects of
Text Planning for Incremental Generation of Route Descriptions, Frontiers in
Knowledge-Based Computing, Pune, India, 375-384.

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

41.  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.

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

43.  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.

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

45.  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.

46.  Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1992) Knowledge
Discovery in Databases: An SFU Effort. AI’92 Machine Learning Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.

47.  Pattabhiraman, T., and Cercone, N. (1992)
Communicating Properties Using Salience-Induced Comparisons, 14th Ann Cognitive
Science Conf., Bloomington, Indiana, 1032-1038.

48.  Cercone, N., Havens, B., and Pattabhiraman, T. (1992)
Knowledge-Based Systems Exposed: Some Applications Oriented Examples,
Proceedings 31st Conference of Metallurgists (invited), Edmonton,
Alberta,121-138.

49.  Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1992) Knowledge
Discovery in Databases: An Attribute-Oriented Approach, Proceedings of the 18th
VLDB Conf., Vancouver, Canada, 547-559.

50.  Han, J., Cai, Y., Cercone, N. and Huang, Y. (1992)
DBLEARN: A Knowledge Discovery System for Large Databases, Proc. 1st
International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore,
473-481.

51.  Han, J., Cai, Y., and Cercone, N. (1992) Knowledge
Discovery in Large Databases. (invited) Proceedings of Computer World ‘92 (2nd
International Symposium) Kobe, Japan, 60-67.

52.  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.

53.  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.

54.  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.

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

56.  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.

57.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., & 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.

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

59.  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 Symposium on
Expert Systems in Process Industries, Ottawa, 31-35.

60.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1994) Learning in Relational
Databases: A Rough Set Approach, 3rd Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Conference.

61.  Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul, P., and Cercone, N.
(1994) Object-Oriented Approach to Developing the Solvent Selection Advisory
System for CO2 Removal Processes, International Conference on Expert Systems
for Development, Bangkok, Thailand.

62.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J. (1994) A Concept-Based
Knowledge Discovery Approach in Databases, 10th CSCSI, Banff, Alberta, Canada,
47-62.

63.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Xie, J. (1994) Learning Data
Trend Regularities From Databases in a Dynamic Environment, Knowledge Discovery
in Databases KDD-94, Seattle, 323-334.

64.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N., and Shan, N. (1994) A rough
set approach to compute all the maximal generalized rules. 6th International
Conf. on Computing and Information – ICCI’94.

65.  Shan, N., Hu, X., Ziarko, W., and Cercone, N. (1994) A
Generalized Rough sets Model, 3rd Pacific Rim International Conference on AI ,
Beijing, China, August 16-18, 437-444.

66.  Hu, X., Shan, N., Cercone, N., and Ziarko, W. (1994)
DBROUGH: A Rough Set Based Knowledge Discovery System, ISMIS’94, Charlotte, North
Carolina, October 16-19, 386-395 (also appearing in Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems, Zbignew Ras and Maria Zemankove (eds)).

67.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1994) Discovery of Decision
Rules from Databases: A Rough Set Approach, Third International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management Systems CIKM’94, 392-400.

68.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1994) The Principlse,
Architecture and Experimental Results of A knowledge Discovery System: DBROUGH,
6th IEEE Tools for AI, (accepted but sent too late to appear).

69.  Wu, X., and Cercone, N. (1994) Cooperative Responding
to Indirect Information Requests in Database Retrieval, Fourth International
Conference Information Systems Development ISD’94, Bled, Slovenia, 595-605.

70.  Cercone, N., McFetridge, P., Popowich, F., Fass, D.,
Groenboer, C., and Hall, G. (1994) The SystemX Natural Language Interface to
Relational Databases. in  J. G. Chen, F. G. Attia and D. L. Crabtree (Eds.)
EXPERSYS-94: Expert Systems Applications & Artificial Intelligence. (Procs
of the Sixth Int Conf on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Applications, Houston, TX, 1-2 December 1994) Gournay sur Marne, France: i.i.t.t. International, pp. 461-466.

71.  Chan, C., Cercone, N. and An, A. (1994)
Object-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of an Expert System for Monitoring and
Control of a Water Distribution System, 19-21 December, London.

72.  Shan, N., Zhang, C.N., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.
(1995) Minimizing the Rules of a Fuzzy Logic System By Using Rough Sets,
Pacific-Asian Conference on Expert Systems, Huangshan, China, 198-204.

73.  Wu, X., Ichikawa, T. and Cercone, N. (1995) User
Beliefs Consistency Checking for Cooperative Query Answering, International
Conference on Intelligent Information Management Systems, Washington, D.C.

74.  Shan, N., Ziarko, W., Hamilton H. and Cercone, N.
(1995) Using Rough Sets as Tools for Knowledge Discovery from Large Relational
Databases, Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD-95, Montreal, 263-268.

75.  Hu, X. and Cercone, N. (1995) Rough Sets Similarity-Based
Learning from Databases, Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD-95, Montreal.

76.  Shan, N., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.  (1995) GRG:
Knowledge Discovery Using Information Generalization, Information Reduction,
and Rule Generation, In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference
on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’95), Washington, DC, 372-379.

77.  Hadjimichael, M., Hamilton, H., and Cercone, N. (1995)
Extracting Concept Hierarchies from Relational Databases, Eighth Florida AI
Research Symposium FLAIRS-95, Melborne, Florida, 314-318.

78.  An, A.., Chan, C., Weerapong, K., Tontiwachwuthikul,
P., and Cercone, N. (1995) Intelligent Monitoring of a Municipal Water Supply
System, Proc 1995 NACE CRWC, Regina, 387-395.

79.  An, A.., Shan, N., Cercone, N., and Chan, C. (1995) An
Approach to Checking Consistency Among Multiple Task Rules, Proceedings of the
IASTED International Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 31-34.

80.  Weerapong, K., An, A.., Chan, C., Tontiwachwuthikul,
P., and Cercone, N. (1995) Supervisory and Decision-Support System for
Intelligent Monitoring and Control of a Pipeline Network, Intelligent Systems
in Process Engineering, Snowmass Village, Colorado, 1-4.

81.  An, A., Shan, N., Chan, C., Cercone, N., and Ziarko,
W. (1995) Discovering Rules from Data for Water Demand Prediction. IJCAI-95
Workshop on Machine Learning in Engineering, Montreal, 187-202.

82.  An, A., Shan, N., Chan, C., and Cercone, N. (1995)
ELEM: A Novel Method for Inducing Rules from Examples. 7th IEEE International
Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C.

83.  Cercone, N. and Johnson, J. (1995) Tools for
Information Access and Analysis: Some Issues for Consideration in Natural
Language Processing, 2nd Symp. on Natural Language Processing (invited), Bangkok, 15-23.

84.  Cercone, N., Hamilton, H., Hu, X., and Shan, N. (1995)
Data Mining Using Attribute-Oriented Generalization and Information Reduction.
RST-95, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina).

85.  Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1995) Mining Knowledge Rules
from Databases: A Rough Set Approach, 12th International Conference on Data
Engineering, New Orleans, 96-105.

86.  Shan, N., Hamilton, H.J., Ziarko, W. and Cercone, N. 
(1996) Discretization of Continuous Valued Attributes in Attribute-Value
Systems, In Proceedings of the Fourth Int. Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets,
and Machine Discovery (RFSD’96), Toyko, Japan, 74-81.

87.  Hamilton, H.J., Hilderman, R.J., Cercone, N.  (1996)
Attribute-Oriented Induction Using Domain Generalization Graphs, In Proceedings
of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI’96), Toulouse, France, 246-253.

88.  Han, N., Hamilton,H. and Cercone, N. (1996) Induction
of classification rules from imperfect data, 9th International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Zakopane, Poland, also appearing in
Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Ras, Z. & Michalewicz, M. (eds.),
Springer-Verlag, 1996, 118-127.

89.  Shan, N., Hamilton,H. and Cercone, N. (1996) Parallel
Processing for Learning Decision Rules, Ninth Florida AI Research Symposium
FLAIRS-96, Key West, Florida, 156-160.

90.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Ziarko, W. (1996) Rule
discovery from databases with decision matrices, 9th International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems – ISMIS96, Zakopane, Poland, 653-662.

91.  Shan, N., Ziarko, W., Hamilton,H. and Cercone, N.
(1996) Discovering Classification Knowledge in Databases Using Rough Sets,
Second Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD-96, Portland, 271-274.

92.  Shan, N., Hamilton,H., Ziarko, W. and Cercone, N.
(1996) Discretization of Continuous Valued Attributes in Attrribute-Value
Systems, Fifth Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, and Machine Discovery RFSD’96, Tokyo,
74-81.

93.  Xiang, Y., Wong, M., and Cercone, N. (1996) Critical
Remarks on Single Link Search in Learning Belief Networks, Uncertainty in
Artificial Intelligence, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 564-572.

94.  Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Ziarko, W. (1997) GRS: A
Generalized Rough Sets Model for Data Mining Applications, Fifth Rough Sets
& Soft Computing RCCS’97, North Carolina, 181-187.

95.  Shan, N., Hamilton, H. and Cercone, N. (1997) Learning
Stronger Rules with RIAC System, Fifth Rough Sets and Soft Computing RCCS’97,
North Carolina, 348-350.

96.  Shan, N., Hamilton, H. and Cercone, N. (1997) The GRG
Knowledge Discovery System: Design Principles and Architectural Overview, 9th
European Conference on Machine Learning ECML-97, Prague, 234-241.

97.  Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K. (1997) Can Machine
Translation Influence the Design of Natural Language Interfaces, NLDB’97, Vancouver, 87-99.

98.  An, A., Chan, C., and Cercone, N. (1997) Integrating
Rule Induction and Case-based Reasoning to Enhance Problem Solving, Second
International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Providence, R.I., 499-508.

99.  Naruedomkul, K., and Cercone, N. (1997) Steps Toward
Accurate Machine Translation System, 7th International Conference on Theoretical
and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI-97, 63-75.

100. Naruedomkul, K., and Cercone, N. (1997) Beyond
Intralingual: Initial Experiments with an English-Thai Translation System,
Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING-97, Tokyo, 216-222.

101. Cercone, N. (1997) Natural Language/Database
Interfaces: New Hope for the Dead or a Procrustean Bed?, Pacific Association
for Computational Linguistics, PACLING-97, Tokyo, 68-78.

102. Cercone, N., and Naruedomkul, K. (1997) Beyond
Intralingual: Experiments with a Novel Hybrid English-Thai Translation System,
Workshop on Thought and Language, Iizuka, Japan, 86-92.

103. Cercone, N. (1997) Bridging Epistemologies: Can We
Individualize Frameworks of Meaning for Data Access and Discovery?, Workshop on
Thought and Language, Iizuka, Japan, 68-83.

104. An, A., Chan, C., and Cercone, N. (1997) Water Demand
Forecasting Using Case-Based Reasoning, IJCAI workshop on Practical Use of
Case-Based Reasoning, Nagoya, Japan, 99-110.

105. Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (1997) Learning Maixmal
Generalized Decision Rules via Discretization, Generalization, and Rough Set
Feature Selection, 9th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence, Newport Beach, Ca., 548-557.

106. Carter, C.L., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N. (1997)
Share Based Measures for Itemsets, In Komorowski, J. and Zytkow, J. (eds.),
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: First European Symposium Proceedings
(PKDD’97), Trondheim, Norway, 14-24.

107. Hilderman, R.J., Hamilton, H.J., Kowalchuk, R., and
Cercone, N.  (1997) Parallel Knowledge Discovery Using Domain Generalization
Graphs, In Komorowski, J. and Zytkow, J. (eds.), Principles of Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery: First European Symposium, Proceedings (PKDD’97),
Trondheim, Norway, 25-35.

108. An, A., and Cercone, N. (1998) Multimodal Reasoning
with Rule Induction and Case-Based Reasoning, AAAI Spring Symposium on
Multimodal Reasoning, Menlo Park, 118-124.

109. An, A., and Cercone, N. (1998) ELEM2: A Learning
System for More Accurate Classifications, Twelth CSCSI (CAI’98) Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence 1418, Mercer, R. & Neufeld, E. (eds), Springer,
426-441.

110. Hilderman, R.J., Carter, C.L., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.J. (1998) Mining Market Basket Data Using Share Measures and Characterized
Itemsets. Second Pacific-Asia Conf on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD-98),  Melbourne, Springer Verlag,159-173.

111. Han, J., and Cercone, N.  (1999) DVIZ: A System for
Visualizing Data Mining, PAKDD’99, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
1574, Springer, Beijing, 390-399.

112. An, A., and Cercone, N.  (1999) Discretization of
Continuous Atrtributes for Learning Classification Rules, PAKDD’99, Lecture
Notes in AI 1574, Springer,  Beijing, 509-514.

113. An, A., Cercone, N., & Chan, C.  ORTES: The
Design of a Real-time Control Expert System,  Int Symp on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems (ISMIS’99) Warsaw, Springer, 319-329.

114. Zhang, J., Hamilton, H., and Cercone, N.  (1999)
Learning English Grapheme Segmentation Using the Iterated Version Space
Algorithm, accepted to International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent
Systems (ISMIS’99) Warsaw, Poland, Springer Verlag, 420-429.

115. Huang, X., Robertson, S.E. , Cercone, N., and An, A.
(1999) Probability-based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval, PACLING’99, Waterloo, 223-234.

116. Hou, L. and Cercone, N. (1999) Extracting Meaningful
Semantic Information Using a HPSG-Based Internet Search Engine Parser, PACLING’99,
Waterloo, 264-269.

117. Zhang, J. and Cercone, N. (1999) Learning English
Stress Rules Using a Machine Learning Approach, PACLING’99, Waterloo, 350-364.

118. Naruedomkul, K. and Cercone, N. (1999) The Role for
AKO in MT, PACLING’99, Waterloo, 379-390.

119. An, A., and Cercone, N. (1999) An Empirical Study on
Rule Quality Measures, RSFDGrC’99, Yamaguchi, Japan, 482-491.

120. Zhang, J., and Cercone, N. (1999) The Iterated
Version Space Learning, RSFDGrC’99, Yamaguchi, Japan, 472-481.

121. Han, J., and Cercone, N. (2000) AViz: A Visualization
System for Discovering Numeric Association Rules, PAKDD’2000, Kyoto Japan, 269-280.

122. Han, J., and Cercone, N. (2000) RuleViz: A Model for
Visualizing Knowledge Discovery Process, KDD-2000, Boston, MA.

123. Han, J., and Cercone, N. (2000) CVis: An Interactive
Visualizastion System for Rule Induction, 13th CSCSI/SCEIO Conference, Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1822, Springer, Montreal, PQ, 214-226. [This
paper won the best paper award].

124. Han, J., and Cercone, N. (2000) Typical Example
Selection for Learning Classifiers, Poster, 13th CSCSI/SCEIO Conference,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1822, Springer, Montreal, PQ, 347-356.

125. Xiang, Y., Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Hamilton, H.
(2000) Learning Pseudo-Independent Models: Analytical and Experimental Results,
13th CSCSI/SCEIO Conference, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1822,
Springer, Montreal, PQ, 227-239.

126. An, A., and Cercone, N. (2000) Rule quality measures
improve the accuracy of rule induction: an experimental approach, ISMIS’00, Charlotte, NC, 119-130.

127. An, Aijun, Cercone, Nick, and Huang, Xianji (2001) A
case-study for learning from imbalanced sets, CSCSI/SCEIO 2001, Ottawa, 1-15.

128. Abou-Assaleh, T., Zhang, J., and Cercone, N. (2001)
Evolution of recurrent neural networks to control autonomous life agents,
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’2001 Workshop, San
Francisco, 385-388.

129. Hou, L., and Cercone, N. (2001) Extracting Meaningful
Semantic Information with EMATISE: an HPSG-based Internet Search Engine Parser,
NLPKE Symposium of the IEEE SMC Conference, Tuscon, AZ.

130. Kešelj, V., and Cercone, N. (2001) Just-in-time
subgrammar extraction for HPSG, PACLING 2001, Kitakyushu, Japan, 161-169.

132. Cercone, N. (2001) Machine translation and machine
learning: a case for marriage, invited paper to PACLING 2001, Kitakyushu,
Japan, 36-49.

133. Wang, Yingwei, and Cercone, Nick (2001) Collections,
Collection Exemplars, and the Exemplification Algorithm, PACLING 2001,
Kitakyushu, Japan, 292-298.

134. Cercone, N. (2001) From computational intelligence to
web intelligence, invited paper to WI’01, Maebashi City, Japan, 30-42.

135. Han, J., Cercone, N. (2001) Implementation Issues and
Paradigms of Visual KDD Systems, WI’01, Maebashi City, Japan, 454-463.

136. Han, J., Cercone, N. (2001) Interactive Construction
of Decision Trees, Proc. Of the Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, Hong Kong, Springer, 575-580.

137. Hu, X., and Cercone, N. (2002) An OLAM Framework for
Web Usage Mining and Business Intelligence Reporting, IEEE International Conference
on Fuzzy Systems.

138. Huang, X, Peng, F., and Cercone, N. Waterloo at
NTCIR-3: Comparing and Analyzing Different Text Extraction Methods in IR
System. To appear in the Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Evaluation
of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarization, October 8-10, 2002, NII, Tokyo Japan.

139. Peng, F., Huang, X., Schuurmans, D., and Cercone, N.
Investigating the Relationship of Word Segmentation Performance and Retrieval
Performance in Chinese IR. 19th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING’02), September 2002.

140. Peng, F., Huang, X., Schuurmans, D., Cercone, N., and
Robertson, S.E. Using Self-Supervised Word Segmentation in Chinese Information
Retrieval. Proceedings of 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’02), August 11-15, 2002, Finland.

141. Huang, X, An, A., Cercone, N., and Promhouse, G.
(2002) Discovery of Interesting Association Rules from Livelink Web Log Data, Proceedings
of 2nd Annual International IEEE Data Mining Conference, Maebishi City, Japan.

142. Huang, X., An, A., Cercone, N., and Promhouse, G.
(2002). Comparison of Interesting Functions for Learning Web Usage Patterns,
Proceeding s of the 11th CIKM’02, McLean, Virginia.

143. Xiang, Y., Lee, J., and Cercone, N. (2003)
Parameterization of Pseudo-independent Models, FLAIRS’2003 521-525.

144. Huang, X, Peng, F., An, A., Schuurmans, D., and
Cercone, N., (2003) Session Boundary Detection for Association Rule Learning
Using n-gram Language Models. 16th CSCSI/SCEIO Conference, Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence 2671, Springer, Halifax, N.S., 237-251.

145. Pluempitiwiraya, C., Naruedomkul, K., and Cerfcone,
N. (2003) Towards MULEX – a Multilingual Lexical Database System for Machine
Translation, PACLING’03, Halifax, NS, 181-190.

146. Nuntadilok, J., Naruedomkul, K., and Cercone, N.
(2003) Thai Word Segmentation for Accurate Translation, PACLING’03, Halifax,
NS, 97-108.

147. Abou-Assleh, T., Cercone, N., and Kešelj, V. (2003)
Expressing Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars in the Relaxed Unification
Formalism, PACLING’03, Halifax, NS, 29-36.

148. Narupiyakul, L., Cercone, N., and Sirinaovakul, B.
(2003) {Text, Document, Concept} to Speech Systems: Proposed Unifying Architecture, 
PACLING’03, Halifax, NS, 141-150.

149. Huang, Y., Huang, X., Cercone, N., and An, A. (2003) A
Comparison of Term Weighting Methods for Feature Selection in Web Page
Classification, PACLING’03, Halifax, NS, 211-220.

150. Kešelj, V., Peng, F., Cercone, N., and Thomas,
C. (2003) N-gram-based Author Profiles for Author Attribution, PACLING’03, Halifax, NS, 255-264.

151. Abou-Assleh, T., Cercone, N., and Kešelj, V.
(2003) An Overview of the Theory of Relaxed Unification, IPSI 2003, Montenegro, to appear.

152. Abou-Assaleh, Tony and Cercone, Nick and Kešelj,
Vlado. (2003)Towards the Theory of Relaxed Unification. In Proceedings of the
14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS
2003, volume LNAI 2871 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer,,
Maebashi City, Japan.

152. Han, J., Hu, X. and Cercone, N. (2003) On Graph-Based
Methods for Inferring Web Communities, Workshop on Applications, Products and
Services of Web-based Support Systems, Halifax, Canada In conjunction with the
2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence

153. An, X., Xiang, Y., and Cercone, N. (2003) A Dynamic
Environment Simulator, Proceedings of European Simulation and Modelling
Conference, Naples, Italy, 187-192.

154. Han, J., Cercone, N., and Hu, X. (2004). A Weighted
Freshness Metric for Maintaining Search Engine Local Repository, IEEE Web
Intelligence IEEE WI-IAT 2004, session Web Support Systems and e-Technology,
Beijing 677-680.

155. An, X., Xiang, Y., and Cercone, N. (2004) Revising
Markov Boundary for Multiagent Probabilistic Inference, IEEE Intelligent Agent
Technology IEEE WI-IAT 2004, session Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
(II), Beijing 113-119.

156. Satti, A., Cercone, N., and Kešelj, V. (2004)
Experiments in Web Page Classification for the Semantic Web, Second
International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems, IEEE WI-IAT 2004,Beijing, 137-141.

157. An, X., Xiang, Y., and Cercone, N. (2004) Probabilistic
Reasoning in Dynamic Multiagent Systems, 10th NMR2004, Whistler,
B.C. 16-24.

158. Tony Abou-Assaleh, Cercone, N., Kešelj, V.,and
Sweidan, R., (2004) N-gram-based Detection of New Malicious Code, IEEE COMPSAC
2004, Hong Kong 41-42.

159. Jiampojamarn, S., Kešelj, V., and Cercone, N.,
(2004) Biological Term Annotation using Classification Methods, First
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium: A Community and Academic Forum
(BIOT-04), Colorado Springs, (to appear).

160. Lin, TY., Hu, X., Cercone, N., and Han, J., (2004)
Intelligent Query Answering Based on Neighborhood Systems and Data Mining
Techniques International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium
(IDEAS), Coimbra, Portugal, 91-96.

161. Pattaraintakorn, P., Naruedomkul, K., and Cercone, N.
(2004). Dual Problems: Attribute Selection and Example Selection, 2004
International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’04: June 21-24, 2004, Las V egas, Nevada, 60-65.

162. Li, J., Tang, B., and Cercone, N. (2004). Applying Association Rules for
Interesting Recommendations using Rule Templates, PAKDD04, Sydney, 166-170.

163. Gu,
Z., and Cercone, N. (2004). Information Extraction with the Use of Inter-Slot
Relationships, 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics (SCI 2004), Orlando, USA, (to appear).

164. Kešelj,
V., and Cercone, N. (2004)  
PPDN—A Framework for
Peer-to-peer Collaborative Research Network, Second International Workshop on
Web-based Support Systems, IEEE WI-IAT 2004,Beijing, 88-93.

165. An, X., Xiang, Y., and Cercone, N. (2004).
Cooperative Computation of Markov Boundaries for Efficient Observation in
Multiagent Probabilistic Inference, Proceedings of Second European Workshop on Probabilistic
Graphical Models (PGM’04), Leiden, Netherlands (to appear).

166. Tony Abou-Assaleh, Nick Cercone, Vlado Kešelj,
and Ray Sweidan, (2004) Detection of New Malicious Code Using N-grams Signatures,
PST’04, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

167. Xiang, Y., An, X. and Cercone, N. (2004) Simulation
of Graphical Models for Multiagent Probabilistic Inference, SIMULATION, Vol.
79, Issue 10, October 2003 545-567.

168. Narupiyakul, L., Thomas, C., Cercone, N. and  Sirinaovakul, B.
(2004) Thai Syllable-Based Information Extraction Using Hidden Markov Models. CICLing 2004: 537-546

169. Nuntiyagul, A., Naruedomkul, K. and Cercone, N.
(2005) Feature Selection in Text Categorization for Item
Banks, ICET2005, Calgary, Alberta (to appear).

170. Nuntiyagul, A., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2005) Recovering “Lack of words” in Text Categorization for Item Banks , IEEE COMPSAC,
Edinburgh, Scotland (to appear).

171. Abou-Assaleh, T., Cercone, N. and Kešelj, V.
(2005) A Probabilistic Evaluation Function for Relaxed Unification, IEEE COMPSAC,
Edinburgh, Scotland (to appear).

172. Pattaraintakorn, P., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2005)  Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Part 1 – selecting attributes for soft-computing
analysis, IEEE COMPSAC, Edinburgh, Scotland (to appear).

173. Jiampojamarn, S., Cercone, N. and Kešelj, V.
(2005) Biological Named Entity Recognition Using n-grams and
Classification Methods, In Proceedings of the Conference Pacific Association
for Computational Linguistics PACLING’05, Tokyo, Japan (to appear).

174. Nuntiyagul, A., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2005) A Keyword Selection method for Item Bank Text Categorization, In Proceedings
of the Conference Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics PACLING’05,
Tokyo, Japan (to appear).

175. Abou-Assaleh, T., Cercone, N. and Kešelj, V. (2005)
Question-Answering with Relaxed Unification. In Proceedings of the Conference
Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics PACLING’05. Tokyo, Japan. (to appear.)

176. Nick Cercone (2005) From Simple Techniques to
Impressive Results, , In Proceedings of the Conference Pacific Association for
Computational Linguistics PACLING’05, Tokyo, Japan. (To appear – invited).

177. Li, J.  and Cercone, N. (2005) Discovering and
Ranking Important Rules, IEEE GrC2005, Beijing, China (to appear).

178. Thomas, C., Kešelj, V., Cercone, N., Rockwood, K.,
and Asp, E. (2005)  Automatic Detection and Rating of Dementia of Alzheimer
Type through Lexical Analysis of Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of IEEE
ICMA 2005, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (to appear).

179. Li, J. and Cercone, N. (2005)  A Rough Set Based
Model to Rank the Importance of Association Rules, RSFDGrC2005, Regina,
Saskatchewan (to appear).

180. Pattaraintakorn, P., Cercone,
N. and Naruedomkul, K. (2005)  Selecting Attributes for Soft-Computing Analysis
in Hybrid Intelligent Systems, D. Slezak et al. (Eds.): RSFDGrC 2005, LNAI
3642, Springer-Verlag, 698–708.

181. Nuntiyagul, A., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
(2005) PKIP: Feature Selection in Text Categorization for Item Banks, 17th
IEEE ICTAI’2005, Hong Kong (to appear).

182. Narupiyakul, L., Cercone, N., Keselj, V.
and Sirinaovakul. B. (2005)  Focus and Speech Act in Prosodic
Analysis for Spoken Language Generation. In The 6th Symposium on Natural
Language Processing, SNLP’2005, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

183. Li, Jiye and Cercone, N. (2006) Assigning Missing
Attribute Values Based on Rough Sets Theory, IEEE-GrC 2006, Atlanta, to appear.

184. Pattaraintakorn, P., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K.
2006) Rule Analysis with Rough Sets Theory", IEEE-GrC 2006, Atlanta, to appear.

185. Gu, Z, and Cercone, N. (2006) Naive Bayes Modeling
with Proper Smoothing for Information Extraction, IEEE International Conference
on Fuzzy Systems, Vancouver, Canada  (to appear).

186. Pattaraintakorn, P., Cercone, N. and Naruedomkul, K. (2006)
A Framework of Hybrid Rough Sets Intelligent System for Survival Analysis: A
Case Study of the Geriatric Data, CIS-RAM 2006, to appear.

187. An, X., Jutla, D., and Cercone, N. (2006). Auditing
and Inference Control for Privacy Preservation in Uncertain Environments, 1st European Conf. on Smart Sensing
and Context (EuroSSC’06),
to appear.

188. An, X., Jutla, D., and Cercone, N. (2006). Reasoning about Obfuscated Private
Information
, 5th
Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Societies (WPES’06),
to appear.

Other Publications                          

1.   Cercone, N. (1979) Book
Review of Data Structures by Horowitz and Sahni, CHum. 242-3.

2.   Cercone, N. Reports of
CSCSI-1978 and 1980 to SIGART, AISB, and SIGLASH.

3.   Cercone, N., and McCalla,
G. (1983) Artificial Intelligence in Canada, CSCSI Newsletter 2(2), 3-7.

4.   Cercone, N., Richards, W.,
and George, D. (1983) The Automated Academic Advisor: The Simon Fraser Information-Communication
Experiment, SIGART Newsletter, No 86, 57-59.

5.   McCalla, G., & Cercone,
N. (1984) Directions for Canadian Artificial Intelligence, CSCSI Newsl. 3(1),
19-103.

6.   McCalla, G., and Cercone,
N. (1984) Artificial Intelligence in Canada: A Review, AI Magazine 5(1), 50-60.

7.   Manning, E., Cercone, N.,
Mylopoulos, J., Holt, R., and Vaucher, J. (1985) Towards a Canadian Fifth Generation
Research Plan. 20 pps.

8.   Cercone, N. (1985)
Discussion Paper for a British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute. 28 pps.

9.   Cercone, N., Manning, E.,
and Peacocke, D. (1986) Trip Report to Tokyo, Japan. 22 pps.

10.  Cercone, N., Pylyshyn, Z.,
Gentleman, M., and Bouchard, L. (1986) Discussion Paper for a Canadian Fifth
Generation Society. 15 pps.

11.  Cercone, N., Maxwell, M.,
and Strzalkowski, T. (1987) Natural Language Processing: The State of the Art,
Boeing internal report BCS-G2010-48. 87 pps

12.  Cercone, N. (1988) Trip
Report to Hong Kong and Nanjing, China. 15 pps

13.  Cercone, N. (1989) Reports
of International Computer Science Conference ’88 to CSCSI/SCEIO Newsletter 20,
26-31, and Information and Software Technology.

14.  Angel, J., Cercone, N., and
Corneil, D. (1988) External Review of the Computational Science Program at University of Saskatchewan, 25 pps.

15.  Cercone, N. (1989) Joint
Ottawa-Carleton PhD Program in Computer Science Report, 10 pps.

16.  Cercone, N. (1990)
Activities of the CSS. 111 pps.

17.  Cercone, N., et al. (1991)
Trip Report to Japan. 30 pps

18.  Fass, D., and Cercone, N.
(1991) Research in NL Processing at Simon Fraser, Cdn AI Magazine, 22 pps.

19.  Cercone, N. (1992) Smarter
Systems: IRIS Research Working Towards More Intelligent Information Systems for
Corporate Executives, IRIS Bulletin 3(1), 1-4.

20.  Cercone, N. (1992)
Activities and Accomplishments of the CSS 1987-1992. 506 pps.

21.  Cercone, N. (1993) Report
on Environment Canada’s Natural Language Interface, 24 pps.

22.  Cercone, N. (1993) Report
on Univ. of Ottawa’s Computer Science Dept. & Faculty of Science, 12 pps.

23.  Cercone, N. (1994) Faculty
of Graduate Studies and Research Annual Report 1993, 274 pps.

24.  Cercone, N. (1994) Planning
Mission to Thailand Trip Report 1994, 39 pps.

25.  Cercone, N (1994) Trip
Report to China, 8 pps.

26.  Cercone, N. (1994) Ethics,
Scholarship, & Accountability: Possibility or Chimaera, The 3rd Degree, Regina.

27.  Cercone, N (1994) Trip
Report to Japan, 8 pps.

28.  Cercone, N (1994) Response
to the NSERC Controversy, Canadian AI Magazine, Autumn ‘95, #35, 7-8.

29.  Cercone, N (1994) CdnGenome
Analysis & Tech. (CGAT) Pgm, Cdn AI Magazine, Autumn ‘95, #35, 17-20.

30.  Cercone, N., Borodin, A.,
and Klawe, M. (1996) Report on U of Victoria’s Computer Science Dept. , 18 pps.

31.  Cercone, N., and Morrow, D.
(1996) Trip Report to Japan/China, 32 pps.

32.  Borodin, A. and Cercone, N.
(1996) Report on Carleton Univ.’s Computer Science Dept., 9 pps.

33.  Cercone, N. and Smedley, T.
(1997) Report on Acadia Univ. Computer Science Graduate Program, 9 pps.

34.  Cercone, N. (1998) Report
on Department Retreat, Univ of Waterloo, 50 pps.

35.  Cercone, N. (2002) Report
on Department of Computer Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology,
Thonburi, 55 pps.

36.  Cercone, N. (2000) Report
on Department of Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University, 16 pps.

37.  Cercone, N. (2001) Report
on Department Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University, 16 pps.

38.  Cercone, N. (2004) Report
on Faculty Retreat, Dalhousie University, 100 pps.

 

 

Technical Reports

University of Alberta

1.   Computer Analysis of
English Word Formation, TR74-6.

2.   Toward a State-Based
Conceptual Representation (w/ L. Schubert), TR74-8.

3.   The Nature and
Computational Use of a Meaning Representation for Word Concepts, TR75-9.

4.   Lexical Design for a
Computational Natural Language Processing System, TR75-10.

5.   Representing Natural
Language in Extended Semantic Networks, TR75-11.

6.   The Structure and
Organization of a Semantic Net for Comprehension and Inference, TR78-1.

Old Dominion University

1.   Representing Word Meaning and Factual Knowledge,
TR76-5. (2) Using the D-Computer, TR76-6.   

Simon Fraser University

1.   Perfect Hash Function
Search with Application to Natural Language Systems, TR81-6.        

2.   Knowledge Representation
and Data Base’s: Science or Engineering, TR81-15.

3.   A Semi-Interactive System
for finding Perfect Hash Functions, TR83-4.

4.   The Automated Academic
Advisor: An Introduction and Initial Experiences, TR83-11.         

5.   Artificial Intelligence:
Underlying Assumptions and Basic Objectives, TR83-13.

6.   The Automated Academic
Advisor, LCCR Working Paper #2.

7.   An Interactive System for
Finding Perfect Hash Functions, LCCR TR85-3.  

8.   The Many Dimensions of
Logical Form, LCCR 85-8 (w/ G. McCalla & P. McFetridge)

9.   Accessing Knowledge Through
Natural Language, LCCR 85-15 (w/ G. McCalla)

10.  Natural Language Generation
Theories and Systems, CIS-IS TR 90-10 (w/ T. Pattabhiraman.

11.  A User Interface
Architecture Based on a Constructivist Paradigm, CIS-IS TR 91-4 (w/ C. Groeneboer)

12.  Inheritance Reasoning for
Head-Driven Phrase Struct. Gram., CSS/LCCR TR91-07 (w/ C. Vogel & F.
Popowich)

13.  Research in Natural
Language Processing at Simon Fraser University, CSS-IS TR91-12 (w/ D. Fass)

13.  A Declarative Specification
of Path-Based Reasoning, , CSS/LCCR TR 92-03 (w/ C. Vogel & F. Popowich)

14.  The SystemX Natural Language
Interface: Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Extensions, CSS-IS TR 93-03
(w/ P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, D. Fass, C. Groeneboer, and G. Hall).

 

University of Regina

1.   The Software Architecture of DBLEARN. TR94-04 (w/ C.
Carter & H. Hamilton)

2.   Steps Toward Accurate Machine Translation. TR97-02
(w/K. Naruedomkul).

3.   Hermes: Grammar and Lexicon. TR98-02 (w/C. Rivera)

4.   Hermes: Natural Language Access to a Medical Database.
TR98-03 (w/C. Rivera)

University of Waterloo

1.   User’s Manual – ELEM2 Rule Induction System. CS 98-23
(w/ A. An)

2.   A Graph Unification Machine for NL Parsing.
CS-2002-01, (w/Vlado Kešelj)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grants and Awards

 

Year

Amount

Agency

Grant

1977

$6,000

NRCC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$1,500

SFU

President’s
Research Grant

1978

$7,200

NRCC

Operating
Grant A4309

1979

$8,400

NRCC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$1,500

SFU

President’s
Research Grant

 

$400

SSHRC

Travel
Grant

1980

$10,200

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$600

SSHRC

Travel
Grant

1981

$13,000

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$7,500

SFU

Vice
President’s Research Grant

 

$500

SSHRC

Travel
Grant

1982

$15,015

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$12,500

SFU

Vice
President’s Research Grant

 

$46,486

NSERC

Equipment
Grant  w/T. Kameda & W. Luk

1983

$15,996

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$4,000

SFU

Vice
Pres.ident s Research Grant

 

$250,000

NSERC

Installation
Grant w/D. George, B. Richards

 

$75,000

SFU

Installation
Grant w/D. George, B. Richards

 

$60,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/D. George, B. Richards

 

$1,800

SFU

President’s
Research Grant

 

$9,000

SSHRC

Leave
Fellowship No. 451-83-2511

 

$500

SSHRC

Travel
Grant

1984

$29,580

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$4,500

SFU

Dean’s
Research Grant

 

$63,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/D. George, B. Richards

1985

$29,580

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$122,750

NSERC

Equipment
Grant – Lisp Machines (w/others)

 

$20,000

SFU

Equipment
Grant – Lisp Machines (w/others)

 

$63,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$2,667

SFU

Dean’s
Research Grant

1986

$28,480

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$21,000

SFU

CSS Research
Grant w/W. Luk

 

$36,500

UVIC

President’s
Research Grant

 

$60,480

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

1987

$34,300

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$107,880

NSERC

Strategic
Grant w/W. Luk

 

$60,480

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$12,500

CIAR

CIAR Associate

 

$12,500

IRIS

NCE
Area Coordinator

 

$75,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$363,000

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
project $141,000 to SFU

 

$69,768

NSERC

CSS
Research Grant w/others

 

$3,079

SSHRC

Travel
Grant #461-86-1005

 

$83,700

SUN

Strategic
Equipment Grant

1988

$34,300

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$110,380

NSERC

Strategic
Grant w/W. Luk

 

$6,000

SFU

Dean’s
Research Grant

 

$86,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$535,000

IAI

R&D
Contract w/T. Calvert

1989

$34,300

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$107,880

NSERC

Strategic
Grant w/W. Luk

 

$700

BC

BC
Scholars to China

 

$86,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$430

SSHRC

Travel
Grant -16th ALLC

 

$55,409

NSERC,
SFU

Equipment
Grant (41,557) CSS matching (13,852)

1990

$36,611

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$18,000

BCSci.
Council

MART
Grant – SystemX

 

$86,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$427,000

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
project $132,000 to SFU

 

$114,200

CSS

Strategic
Grant w/B. Havens & T. Calvert

 

$83,600

Cdn Cable
Labs

Expert
Information Management

1991

$75,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$36,611

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$12,500

CIAR

CIAR Associate

 

$12,500

IRIS

NCE
Area Coordinator

 

$399,000

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
project $146,000 to SFU

 

$100,000

Cdn Cable
Labs

Expert
Information Management

1992

$75,000

NSERC

Infrastructure
Grant w/T. Kameda & L. Hafer

 

$356,000

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
project $139,000 to SFU

 

$1,125,000

NSERC

Industrial
Research Chair 5-yr value $2,125,000

 

$36,611

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$12,500

CIAR

CIAR Associate

 

$12,500

IRIS

NCE
Area Coordinator

 

$5,000

ASEAN

Canada-ASEAN
Centre

 

$100,000

Cdn Cable
Labs

Expert
Information Management

1993

$34,000

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$75,000

Cdn Cable
Labs

Expert
Information Management

 

$100,000

NSERC

CRD
Grant w/P. McFet-ridge & F. Popowich

 

$91,260

NSERC

CRD
Grant – Rogers, w/H Hamilton

 

$48,845

NSERC

CRD
Grant – SaskTel, w/H Hamilton et al.

 

$15,000

IRIS

NCE
Theme Coordinator

 

$50,000

UWaterloo

Starter
Grant-new chair

 

$54,063

NSERC

Equipment
Grant w/5 others

 

$17,260

CIDA

CDN-Thai
HRD proj.

1994

$34,000

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$75,000

Cdn Cable

Expert
Infomation Management

 

$7,813

CIAR

CIAR Associate

 

$12,500

IRIS

NCE
Area Coordinator

 

$100,000

NSERC

CRD
Grant w/P. McFet-ridge & F. Popowich

 

$250,000

NSERC

Installation
Grant w/41 others

 

$302,853

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
II project $158,615 to Regina

 

$26,000

SK
Econ. Dev.

IRIS
bridging match

1995

$34,000

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$91,260

Cdn Cable
Labs

DB-Discover

 

$25,000

NSERC

CRD
Grant w/P. McFet-ridge & F. Popowich

 

$15,000

IRIS

NCE
Theme Coordinator

 

$289,390

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
II project $133,716 to Regina

 

$48,600

SaskTel

IRIS
II matching contribution

 

$3,048,000

Paradigm

R&D
contract w/4 others

1996

$45,500

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$73,460

Cdn Cable
Labs

DB-Discover

 

$15,000

IRIS

NCE
Theme Coordinator

 

$215,848

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
II project $108,520 to Regina

 

$48,600

SaskTel

IRIS
II matching contribution

 

$17,098

NSERC

Equipment
Grant w/C. Chan

1997

$45,500

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$48,600

SaskTel

IRIS
II matching contribution

 

$121,000

NSERC

CRD
Grant – Paradigm, w/H Hamilton et al.

 

$227,715

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
II project $107,960 to Regina

1998

$50,050

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$73,460

NSERC

CRD
Grant – Rogers, w/H Hamilton

 

$48,845

NSERC

CRD
Grant – SaskTel, w/H Hamilton et al.

 

$195,750

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
III project $53,000 to Waterloo

 

$15,000

Showbase

DB-Discover
project $15,000 to Waterloo

 

$100,000

CITO

CBR
project $25,000 to Waterloo

1999

$52,550

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$48,845

NSERC

CRD
Grant – SaskTel, w/H Hamilton et al.

 

$143,800

NSERC

Strategic
Project – w/URegina & UOttawa – UW share $47,934

 

$173,750

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
III project $59,000 to Waterloo

 

$100,000

CITO

$25,000
to Waterloo

 

$45,500

K-J
Sys. Inc

ELEM2
w/A. An

2000

$52,550

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$143,800

NSERC

Strategic
Project – w/URegina & UOttawa – UW share $47,934

 

$178,750

NSERC

NCE-IRIS
III project $53,000 to Waterloo

 

$23,000

Glaxo-Wellcome

ELEM2
w/A. An

 

$36,000

IRIS
T-Gap

ELEM2
w/A. An

 

$39,000

K-J
Sys. Inc

ELEM2
w/A. An

 

$47,000

CITO

ELEM2
w/A. An

2001

$59,000

NSERC

Operating Grant A4309

 

$47,000

$36,000

CITO

(added by CITO)

ELEM2 w/A. An

 

$195,750

NSERC

NCE-IRIS III project $52,000 to Waterloo

2002

$59,000

NSERC

Operating Grant A4309

 

$143,800

NSERC

Strategic Project – w/URegina & UOttawa – UW share $47,934

 

$24,000

$36,000

CITO

(added by CITO)

ELEM2 w/A. An

 

$50,000

OpenText

UW General DB Research

 

$66,000

OpenText

Recommender systems w/A. An; Stefy NLP w/V. Keselj

2003

$59,000

NSERC

Operating Grant A4309

 

$90,000

NSERC

CRD w/Open Text

 

$66,000

OpenText

Recommender systems w/A. An; Stefy NLP w/V. Keselj

2004

$59,000

NSERC

Operating Grant A4309

 

$75,000

NSERC

CRD w/Open Text

 

$66,000

OpenText

Recommender systems w/A. An; Stefy NLP w/V. Keselj

 

$200,000

PRECARN

PUL w/5 others

2005

$59,000

NSERC

Operating Grant A4309

 

$75,000

NSERC

CRD w/Open Text

 

$200,000

PRECARN

PUL w/5 others

2006

$55,000

NSERC

Operating
Grant A4309

 

$25,000

York

Starter
Grant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards

From
1984-1991, NRCC awarded a $25,000 annual contract for editing Computational
Intelligence

From 1992-1994, Blackwell’s
awarded a $10,000US annual contract for editing Computational Intelligence

From 1994-2002, Blackwell’s
awarded a $5,000US annual contract for editing Computational Intelligence

NRCC Postgraduate Scholarship
1973-1975 and University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship 1974

Columbo Devlin Outstanding
Alumnus for contributions to Education – University of Steubenville 1988

CSCSI/SCEIO Distinguished
Service Award for contributions to Canadian Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

Fellow of the IEEE, 2002 – IEEE
Fellow for contributions to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2002

 

Research Seminars and Invited Talks

1975  Sept 3-9    Fourth
IJCAI, Tbilisi, USSR               Nov 1    Thirteenth ACL, Boston, MA.

 

1976  May 14      Virginia Academy of Sciences           June 3   Ohio State University Seminar

 

1977  Jan 7        University of British Columbia Seminar            Aug 24            Fifth IJCAI, Boston, MA.

         Nov 10
     IEEE COMPSAC, Chicago, IL.

 

1978  Apr 3-7     Fifth
ALLC, Birmingham, England       July 2    Second CSCSI/SCEIO, Toronto, Ont.

 

1979  Aug 20      Fourth
ICCH, Hanover, NH.              Aug 23 IFIP DB Conference, Hanover, NH.

         Oct 20      WECOL
IX, Vancouver, BC.

 

1980  Mar 28      Sixth
ALLC, Cambridge, England       Oct 28   Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Seminar

         Nov 20
     Universite de Quebec a Montréal      Dec 2    Clarkson College of Tech.
Seminar

                        Seminar
and Consulting                   Dec 11 Bolt, Beranek and Newman Seminar

 

1981  Feb 18      DPMA
Meeting, Vancouver, BC.        Feb 25   ACM Computer Sci. Conf., St. Louis

         June
11     Queen’s University Seminar              Sep 16 Pacific Vocational Inst.
Public Lecture

         Dec 10
     University of Alberta Seminar

 

1982  Feb 4        SFU
Physics Department Seminar      Mar 19   University of British Columbia Seminar

         May 18
     Fourth CSCSI/SCEIO, Saskatoon

 

1983  Jan 13       LCCR-MPR
Seminar Series                May 13 Graphics Interface 83 – Edmonton

         May 24      AI-Robotics
Workshop, Univ. of B. C.            June 11           CDBHSS Conf., Rutgers Univ., N.J.

         July
13      University of Saskatchewan Seminar  Nov 13  Boeing Computer Services
Seminar,

                                                                                       Bellevue, Washington

 

1984  May 10      CIPS
Session ’84 Conference           Apr 27   First Compdec Conf., panel sess., LA

         May 10
     CIPS Session ’84, Calgary, Alberta     May 15 Fifth CSCSI/SCEIO, panel session,

                                                                                       London, Ontario

         May 16
     Fifth CSCSI/SCEIO, London, Ontario  May 18 Waterloo University Seminar

         May 22
     Queen’s University Seminar              Oct 11   Research Directions
Seminar, SFU

         Nov 30
     University of Toronto Seminar

 

1985  Jan 21       Michigan State University Seminar     Feb 6    Univ. of British Columbia Seminar

         Feb 13
     Vancouver PC Club Seminar             Mar 6     Vancouver Comm. College –
Langara

         Apr 30
     Ohio State University Seminar          May 29 Theoretical Issues in
NLU,Halifax

         June
4-5    CIPS Congress ’85 (3 talks)              June 12           McGill Univ.
Summer Inst. Seminar

         Nov 11
     West. Washington St. Univ. Seminar Dec 11 IEEE Comp. Soc. – Vancouver Chap.

         Dec 12
     Pi Digamma (SFU) Society

 

 

1986  Jan 16       University of Washington Seminar     Feb 4    IEEE Data Engineering Conf. Tutorial

         Feb 7        University of Western Ont. Seminar  Feb 9    Queen’s Univ., CAPD Keynote Address

         Feb 11
     Queen’s University Seminar              Feb 24   University of Kentucky Seminar

         Feb 26
     University of Waterloo Seminar         Mar 25   Univ. of Massachusetts Seminar              

         Apr 9        University of Tokyo Seminar             Apr 10   ICOT Seminar

         Apr 11
     Keio University (Tokyo) Seminar       Apr 16   Fudan Univ. (Shanghai) Seminar

         Apr 18
     Nanjing Inst. of Technology Seminar Apr 19   Nanjing Ins. of Technology
Seminar

         Apr 28
     Taiwan IEEE Chapter Seminar          June 17           Vancouver DPMA
Seminar

         Sept
10     Univ.of Victoria Sem. – Comp. Sci.     Sept 24 CIAR Seminar

         Oct 21
     Univ. of Victoria Sem. – Linguistics

 

1987  Jan 30       Univ. of Victoria Sem. – Formal Sys.   Mar 3     Univ. of Victoria Sem.r – Comp. Sci.

         Mar 10
     IEEE Victoria Chapter Seminar          May 12  Coun. of Biology Editors
Ann. Meet.

         June 3      Ontario Comp. & Humanities Conf.    Oct 12   17th Num. Math & Comp. Conf.

         Dec 10      System
38 User’s Group Seminar (invited speaker)

 

1988 Apr 29      Simon Fraser University Seminar        May 5    CIPS Sem. – Knowledge-Based Sys.

         June 1
     Unisys Canada Inc. Seminar (Vanc.)  June 2   Unisys Canada Inc. Seminar
(Vanc.)

         Sept
18     System 38 Users, Richmond, B.C.     Dec 12 Hong Kong Productivity Seminar

         Dec 15      Nanjing
Inst. of Technology Seminar Dec 20 Int. Computer Science Conf. Sem.

 

1989 Jan 10       IBM
Canada Labs Seminar                Feb 21   Port Coquitlam Comp. Club Seminar

         Apr 3        CWARC-DOC
Seminar                      May 11  GTE – AI Workshop – invited speaker

         June 9      16th
ALLC/9th ICCH – Toronto         Aug 29  IFIP – San Francisco

         Sept
14     CBE/AESE/EASE Conference            Sept 15 Univ. of Waterloo Sem. – SystemX

         Dec 9        KBCS’89
Conference, Bombay

 

1990 Feb 2        Courant
Institute Seminar               Feb 6    Sixth Intern. IEEE Data Engineering

         Feb 7        Sixth
Intern.l IEEE Data Engineering Mar 12   CIPS Vancouver Chapter

         May 21
     Michigan State Univ. Seminar           July 20   3rd Int. Robotics &
Manufacturing

         Sept
25     Computational Intelligence ’90         Oct 25   Third Int. Symp. on AI, Monterrey

                                                                                       Mexico – invited speaker

1991 Feb 7        Simon
Fraser Univ. Seminar              Mar 19   Univ. of Alberta Seminar

         Apr 15
     Kyushu Inst. of Tech. Seminar         Apr 16   Univ. of Hiroshima Seminar

         Oct 5        JAJSNLP’91,
Iizuka, Japan                Dec 13  IEEE ISCOM’91, Tainan, Taiwan

 

1992 Feb 28      Simon
Fraser Univ. Seminar              Mar 3     University of Regina Seminar

         Mar 9        University of Victoria Seminar           May 12  CSCSI Machine Learning Workshop

         June
12     2nd IRIS-PRECARN Conference        July 13   2nd BC Workshop on Intell.
Control

         Aug 25      31st
Conf. of Metallurgists – invited.  Dec 11  KMITT seminar, Bangkok

 

1993 Mar 24      University of Regina Basterfield Lct.   May 7    University of Regina Psych Dept.

         June 8      3rd
IRIS-PRECARN Conference         June 9   3rd IRIS-PRECARN Conference

         Sept
30     University of Alberta invited lecture   Oct 11   Banff Wkshop on Rough
Sets plenary

 

1994 Feb 22      KMITT
seminar, Bangkok                 Apr 12   SFU – IRIS presentation lecture

         May 18      15th
CSCSI Conf. Banff, Alberta       Jun 22   4th IRIS-PRECARN Conference

         Aug 17      3rd
PRICAI Conf. Beijing – invited.     Aug 17  3rd PRICAI Conf. Panel presentation

         Sept
30     Univ. of Alberta – Dist. Alumni Lect.  Oct 11   Kyushu Inst. Tech
seminar

         Oct 12      Oita University seminar                    Nov 29  Rogers Cablevision – Vancouver

         Dec 8        PRECARN
meeting – Calgary            

 

1995 Jan 18       PACE
Cmte meeting – Regina           Mar 21   SRC Seminar

         Apr 27      SS
IEEE Chapter seminar – Regina     Aug 2    2ndSNLP – Bangkok (invited)

         Aug 21
     KDD – Montreal                              Oct 17   Conf on Metallurgists
– Regina

         Nov 24      SS
IEEE Chapter seminar – Regina    

 

 

1996 May 23      CSCSI
Invited Talk – Toronto           May 24  CSCSI Talk

         June 5      IRIS
II presentation – Montreal         Dec 10  University of Waterloo seminar

 

1997 Feb 20      University of Santa Clara seminar       Feb 24   University of Santa Clara seminar

         Feb 27      University of Santa Clara seminar       May 31  UBC (VST) seminar – keynote speaker

         Jun 12      7th
IRIS-PRECARN Conference         Jun 26   NLDB’97 Vancouver

         Jun 27      NLDB’97
Vancouver – keynote speaker          Sept 4            PACLING’97 Tokyo – keynote speaker

         Sept 8      Wkshop’97
Iizuka – keynote speaker

 

1998 Mar 28      Canadian
Electricity Conf seminar      Sep 3    IBM Wkshop – Elect. Commerce seminar

 

1999 Mar 23      UPolytech
Valencia seminar              May 8    UW Stats LDS Symposium – seminar

         July
15      U. Western Ontario seminar             Aug 1    IDEAS Conference, Montreal – seminar

         Nov 8        RSFDGrC’99
– Talk 1 – Japan             Nov 8    RSFDGrC’99 – Talk 2 – Japan

                                               
                                      

 

2000 Jan 27       Data
M ining short course – ICR        Jan 28   Data M ining short course – ICR

         Apr 12      SUNY
Buffalo – seminar                   May 8    Chulalongkorn Univ seminar – Thailand

         May 11      SNLP’2000
invited talk – Thailand      May 17  CSCSI’2000 talk – Montreal

 

2001  Feb 20      CFI
e-business workshop                 Sept 11 Pacling’2001 talk – Kitakyushu                

         Sept
12     Pacling’2001 talk – Kitakyushu          Sept 14 Pacling’2001 invited
talk – Kitakyus

         Sept
17     HK Poly Univ talk – Hong Kong          Sept 24 CS, Dalhousie University – seminar           

         Oct 23      WI’2001
invited talk – Maebashi City  Oct 24   WI’2001 talk – Maebashi City                               Nov 6    Thommasat Univ talk – Bangkok                                                Nov
7    Mahidol Univ seminar – Bangkok                           Nov 8    Mahidol
Univ seminar – Bangkok                                                 Nov 9    Chulalongkorn
seminar – Bangkok                         Nov 12  KMUTT seminar – Thonburi                                                Nov
15  KMUTT seminar – Thonburi                                 Nov 16  NECTEC
seminar – Bangkok

 

2002  Oct 18      HK
Poly Univ talk 65 Annv.- Hong Kong         Dec 12            Yamaguchi seminar

         Dec 16      Mahidol
Univ seminar – Bangkok        Dec 17  Mahidol Univ seminar – Bangkok                          

2003  Jan 10       Adventis
talk – New Jersey              Jan 24   Graduate talk – Dalhousie

         April
17     Open Text seminar – Waterloo        May 16  Univ of Alberta seminar

         Jun 2        KMUTT
seminar – Bangkok              Aug 23  Pacling’2003 talk – Halifax

         Sept
11     Mahidol Univ seminar – Bangkok       Sept 12 Mahidol Univ seminar – Bangkok

         Oct 14      WI/IAT
conference – Halifax            Nov 9    HK Baptist Univ – seminar

         Nov 28      Alzehiemer’s
wkshop – Halifax

 

2004  Jan 14       Symantec
presentation – Ca            Mar 7     HK Poly Univ talk – Hong Kong                             Apr
23   Precarn project present – Halifax                                         May
13  Energy 2004 – Antigonish

         Sept
19     WI/IAT’04 workshop seminar 1        Sept 19 WI/IAT’04 workshop seminar 2

                                                                                               

2005  Mar 10      Aliant
presentation – Halifax             Jul 13    Dalhousie Univ. talk – Halifax                                Jul 18    Mahidol Univ. seminar – Bangkok                                                  Jul
19    Mahidol Univ. seminar – Bangkok

         Jul 20        Mahidol Univ. seminar – Bangkok      Aug 24  Pacling’2005 talk – Tokyo

         Aug 25      Pacling’2005
invited talk – Tokyo      Dec 20  Mahidol Univ. seminar – Bangkok

 

2006  Jun 28      KMITL
seminar – Bangkok

Teaching Experience

 

Institution

Course

Title

Dalhousie University

CSCI4150

Artificial
Intelligence

University of Waterloo

CS499

Special
Topics

 

*CS786O

NL Processing
with HPSG’s

University of Regina

CS490

Special
Topics

 

CS891

Reading
Course

 

CS891

AI and
Databases

 

CS420/CS820

Artificial
Intelligence

 

CS832

Intelligent
Systems

University of Victoria

*CSC574D

Knowledge
Rep’n

 

CSC480C/574C

Artificial
Intelligence

 

CSC585

Graduate
Seminar

B.C.
Telephone Company

*Pascal
Course

 

Rensselaer
Polytechic Inst.

CMPT 66600

Advanced
Programming

 

CMPT 66110

Computer
Fundamentals

Simon Fraser University

*CMPT001

Computers
& People

 

CMPT 103

Intro to a
high-level lang.

 

CMPT 105

Fundamental
Concepts.

 

CMPT110/280

Comp. &
Humanities

 

*CMPT380

Comp.
Lingistics

 

*CMPT380

Comp.
Lingistics

 

*CMPT380

Comp.
Lingistics

 

CMPT383

Comparative
Pgm’ing

 

*CMPT410

Artificial
Intelligence

 

CMPT820/882

Artificial
Intelligence

 

CMPT315/415

Art. Int.
& Spec. Tps

University of Alberta

*CMPUT 215

Data
Structures

 

CMPUT 315

Comp.
Organization

Old Dominion University

CS100

Intro to
Comp. Sci.

 

CS315

Data
Structures

 

CS594

Computing

Ohio State University

CS543

Programming
II

 

CS641

Programming
III

 

·   developed as a new course

 

Graduate Student Supervision

Senior Supervisor (or co-supervisor)

 

Dates

Student

Degree

Univ.

Thesis
Title

Employment

1978-79

Robert
Mercer

Ph.D.
– CS

Trans
to UBC

 

Prof.,
Univ. of West Ontario

1979-82

Max
Krause

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Perfect
Hash Function Search w/Application to Computer Lexicon Design

Working
in British Columbia

1979-84

Scott
Bleackley

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Design
Considerations for Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems

Self-employed

1982-83

Robert
Hadley

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

A
Natural Language Query System for a Prolog Database

Prof.,
SFU

1982-84

Fred
Martin

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Automated
Evaluation of Interactive Systems: A Quality Assessment Approach

Inst.,
BCIT

1983-86

Tomacz
Strzalkowski

Ph.D.
– CS

SFU

The
Stratified Model of Meaning Representation

Prof.,
SUNY Albany

1984-85

Fred
Popowich

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Unrestricted Gapping Grammars: Theory, Implementation
& Applic’s

Prof.,
SFU

1985-88

Stefan
Joseph

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Unrestricted Gapping Grammars: Theory, Implementation
& Applic’s

Inst.,
BCIT

1985-86

Gary
Hall

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

The
Multiple Access Path Problem and Simple English Expressions

Programmer
SFU

1985-86

Mimi
Kao

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Generating
Quality Responses from Null Answers to Queries

Industry,
Hong Kong

Visited Victoria 1986/87 academic year & unofficially supervised

Cripps (Muller),
Wang (Muller), Akins (Musio), Friessen (Bhargava)

1986-87

Andrew
Cripps

M.Sc.
– CS

UVic

Aspects
of the Inheritance Problem

Industry, England

1986-87

Jerome
Wang

M.Sc.
– CS

UVic

FRLjw
– A Frame Representation Language

 

1986-88

Garth
Akins

M.Sc.
– CS

UVic

Inexactness
in Rule Sets

 

1986-87

Lorin
Friessen

M.Sc.
– EE

UVic

A
Lisp Program that Determines Cognitive Style

 

Back to SFU after one
year in Victoria

1988-89

Yandong
Cai

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Attribute
Oriented Induction in Relational Databases

Univ. of Illinois

1988-90

Russell
Ovans

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Constraint
Reasoning with applications to Computer Music

 

1988-90

Carl
Vogel

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Inheritance Reasoning & Head Driven Phrase Structure
Parsing

Prof.,
Trinity College, Dublin

1990-91

Eric
Wu

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Transformation
& Benchmark Evaluation for SQL Querys

Nortel

1988-92

Christine
Chan

Ph.D.
– SA

SFU

Inferential Modeling Technique for Semantic Representation
of Domain Knowledge

Prof.,
Univ. of Regina

1987-92

T.
Pattabhiraman

Ph.D.
– CS

SFU

Aspects
of Salience in Natural Language Generation

Crystal Services

1985-92

Howard
Hamilton

Ph.D.
– CS

SFU

Specification
of Inductive-Inference Problems for Machine Discovery

Prof.,
Univ. of Regina

1985-92

Xiobing
Chen

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Qualitative
Analysis Simplification for Integrity Constraint Enforcement

 

1990-92

Xiaohua
Hu

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Conceptual
Clustering & Concept Hierarchies in Knowledge Discovery

Prof.,
Drexel University

1992-93

Jean
Low

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Impedances
to Re-Engineering – A Different Perscpective

B.C.
Telephone

1992-93

Jinshi
Xia

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Attribute-Oriented
Induction in Object-Oriented Databases

 

1991-93

Yao Yuan

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

Design
of a Complex Object Description Language

 

1992-94

David
Fudger

M.Sc.
– CS

Regina

Concept
Hierachies for Attribute-Oriented KDD

 

1992-95

Craig
Larman

 

M.Sc.
– CS

SFU

A Hybrid O-O/Logic Framework with Applications to Chromosomal
Abnormalities                     Chromosomal Abnormalities

Chief Scientist at Valtech

1993-95

Xiaohua
Hu

Ph.D.
CS

Regina

Concept Discovery using Rough Sets in Databases

Prof., Drexel University

1994-96

Salla
Abourgia

M.Sc.
– CS

Regina

Expert Network Configuration

SaskTel

1994-

Shinta
Mayasari

Ph.D.
CS

Regina

Natural Language Interfaces for Health Databases

SaskTel

1995-

Ning
Shan

Ph.D.
CS

Regina

Knowledge Discovery using Rough Sets in Databases

Working in Maryland

1995-96

Tony
Chu

M.Sc.
– CS

Regina

Parallel Learning of Belief Networks from Large Databases

 

1995-97

Gayathri
Mahalingan

M.Sc.
– CS

Regina

Natural Language Access to Internet Search Engines

Crown Life

1993-97

Aijun
An

Ph.D.
CS

Regina

Analysis Methodologies for Integrated and Enhanced Problem
Solving

Prof., York University

1997-99

Jessie
Hou

M.Math-CS

Waterloo

Meta Access to Internet Search Engines
(EMATISE)

Working in California

1995-00

Kanlaya
Naruedomkul

Ph.D.
CS

Regina

Generate and Repair Machine Translation (GRMT)

Prof., Mahidol University

1997-01

Jianchao
Han

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Interactive Visualization for Knowledge Discovery

Prof., Califor-nia State Univ

1999-01

Amit
Dubey

M.Math-CS

Waterloo

Tuning Probabilistic Parsers with Plain Text

PhD student Saarland Univ

1999-02

Jojo
Kurniawan

M.Math

Waterloo

NIDGE: Narratively Interactive and Dramatic Games

Working in Calgary

2000-02

Tony Abou-Assaleh

M.Math

Waterloo

Relaxed Unification

PhD student

Dalhousie

1999-02

Yanhui
Huang

M.Sc.
– CS

Regina

Web-based Classification Using Machine Learning Approaches

PhD student

Dalhousie University

1997-02

Vlado
Kes
̌elj

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Modular Stochastic HPSGs for Question Answering

Prof., Dalhou-sie University

2001-03

Ray
Sweidan

M.Math

Waterloo

Project-Exploiting Prediction to Improve
User-Perceived Latency

Project Manager, Kanayo

1998-03

YingWei
Wang

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Binary One Algorithm: Retrieving High-Frequency words
in Linear Time and Logarithmic Space

Prof., University of PEI

1999-03

Fletcher
Lu

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Exploring Model-Based Methods for Reinforcement Learning

Researcher, Univ. of Waterloo

2003-05

Sittichai
Jiampochaman

M.C.Sc.

Dalhousie

Automatic Biological Term Annotation using n-gram and
Classification Methods

PhD student

University of Alberta

2003-05

Asad
Satti

M.C.Sc.

Dalhousie

Automatic Annotation of Semantic Web Documents

Working in Halifax

2001-05

Xiangdong
An

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Towards Dynamic Multiagent Probablistic Inference: Testbeds
and Methods

PostDoc,
Dalhousie & Saint Marys

2001-05

Jae-Huack
Lee

Ph.D.
CS

Guelph

Baysian Machine Learning

 

2004-05

Puntip
Pattaraintakorn

Ph.D.
Math

Mahidol

Selecting Attributes for
Soft-Computing Analysis in Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Lecturer,
KMITL

1999-06

Zhenmei
Gu

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Adaptive
Information Extraction from Online Documents

PostDoc,
Dalhousie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently Supervisor (or Co-supervisor)

 

Dates

Student

Degree

University

Thesis Topic

2006-

Onintra
Poobrasert

Ph.D.

Dalhousie

Multimedia applications to Education

2005-

Sumalee
Sonamthiang

Ph.D.
Math

Mahidol

 

2000-

Jiye
Li

Ph.D.
CS

Waterloo

Association Rules and Recommendation Systems

2002-

Lalita
Naripulikul

Ph.D.
CS

Dalhousie

Speech Prosody

2003-

Daan
He

Ph.D.
CS

Dalhousie

Image Analysis

2003-

Tony
Abou-Assaleh

Ph.D.
CS

Dalhousie

Relaxed Unification

2003-

Yanhui
Huang

Ph.D.
CS

Dalhousie

Health informatics

2004-

Atorn
Nuntiyagul

Ph.D.
CS Ed.

Mahidol

Thai Text Categorization & Retrieval for Item Bank
using Patterned Keyword in Phrases

2004-

Numtip
Rattanavungchaiya

Ph.D.
CS Ed.

Mahidol

Self Generate Information of Unknown Word System

2004-

Srisavakon
Dangsaart

Ph.D.
CS Ed.

Mahidol

Thai Text to Thai Sign Language System

2004-

Thammanoon
Ditcharoen

Ph.D.
CS Ed.

Mahidol

Thai Sign to Thai
MT for Deaf Learning

 

 

 

 

External
Examiner

 

Date

Student

Degree

University

1977

Gordon
McCalla

Ph.D.
CS

UBC

1983

Mostafa
Aref

M.Sc.
CS

University of Saskatchewan

1984

Robert
Leahy

M.Sc.
Kinesiology

Simon Fraser University

1989

Phil
Harrison

Ph.D.
CS

University of Washington

1989

Claudia
Morawetz

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1989

Christi
Dykstra

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1989

Scott
Tilley

M.Sc.
CS

University of Victoria

1989

Keith
Chan

Ph.D.
Systems Engineering

University of Waterloo

1989

Julia
Johnson

Ph.D.
CS

UBC

1992

Hong
Fan

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1995

Darrell
Conklin

Ph.D.
CS

Queen’s
University

1996

Andrew
Fall

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1997

Lottie
Price

M.Sc.
CS

University of Saskatchewan

1997

Yang
Wang

Ph.D.
Systems Engineering

University of Waterloo

1998

Punam
Bedi

Ph.D.
CS

University of Delhi

2004

Manuel
Zahariev

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

2004

Verayuth
Lertnattee

Ph.D.
CS

Sirindhorn
Intern. Inst. of Tech

 

 

 

 

 

 

Served on Supervisory Committee

 

Date

Student

Degree

University

1979-81

Jean
Piche

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1979-82

Patrick
Black

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1980-82

Thomas
Strotthotte

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1981-83

Ed
Bryant

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1982-84

A.
Lo

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1983-86

David
Cummings

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1983-87

Gary
Ridsdale

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1983-86

Shun-en
Xie

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1986-87

Sen
Tao

M.Sc.
CS

University of Victoria

1986-91

J.
Dyck

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1987-89

Paul
Franklin

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1987-88

X.
Zhou

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1987-90

X.
Xu

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1987-89

K.
Chin

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1989-91

Q.
Wang

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1990-94

R.
Gupta

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1990-93

L.
Liu

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1990-92

Z.
Xie

Ph.D.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1991-93

Y.
Huang

M.Sc.
CS

Simon Fraser University

1994-95

Colin
Carter

M.Sc.
CS

University of Regina

1996-97

J.
Shu

M.Sc.
CS

University of Regina

1996-98

Jianna
Zhang

Ph.D.
CS

University of Regina

1997-

Peter
Vanderheyden

Ph.D.
CS

University of Waterloo – 2nd
stage

1997-03

Matthew
Young-Lai

Ph.D.
CS

University of Waterloo – 2nd
stage

1998-00

Robert
Hilderman

Ph.D.
CS

University of Regina

1998

Michael
Fleming

M.Math,
CS

University of Waterloo

1998

Zhe
Liu

M.Math,
CS

University of Waterloo

1999

Steven
Banks

M.Math,
CS

University of Waterloo

1999

Curtis
Cartmill

M.Math,
CS

University of Waterloo

2000-03

Theo
Chiasson

Ph.D.
CS

Dalhousie University

2002-04

Calvin
Thomas

M.C.Sc.       

Dalhousie University

2003-04

Yingbo
Miao

M.C.Sc.       

Dalhousie University

2006

Michael
Lemczyk

M.C.Sc.       

Dalhousie University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist Supervisor

 

Year

Scientist

Position

University

Employment

1985-95

Gary
Hall

Research
Scientist

Simon Fraser University

Systems Programmer, SFU

1984-87

Paul
McFetridge

Research
Scientist

Simon Fraser University

Chair, Linguistics, SFU

1986-92

Chris
Groeneboer

Research
Scientist

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser

1986-87

Tomacz
Strzalwokski

Postdoctoral

Fellow

Simon Fraser University

Prof., SUNY Albany

1986-94

Dan
Fass

Postdoctoral

Fellow

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser

1993-95

Xu
Wu

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Regina

Hiroshima University

1993-94

Michael
Hadjimichael

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Regina

Naval Postgraduate School

1995-96

Weidong
Yu

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Regina

Empress Software, Toronto

1994-97

Colin
Carter

Research
Scientist

University of Regina

The Brick, Calgary

1995-97

Robert
Hilderman

Research
Scientist

University of Regina

Prof., University of Regina

1996-98

Carlos
Rivera

Research
Scientist

University of Regina

 

1997-01

Aijun
An

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Waterloo

Prof., York University

1998-99

Jianna
Zhang

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Waterloo

Prof., Western Washington State University

2001-03

Jimmy
Huang

Postdoctoral

Fellow

University of Waterloo

Prof., York University

2003-04

Phyllis
Huang

Research
Scientist

University of Waterloo

Ph.D. student, Dalhousie University

2004-05

Chutima
Pisarn

Research
Scientist

Dalhousie University

Ph.D. student, Sirindhorn  International Inst. of
Tech.

2004-05

Puntip
Pattara-intakorn

Research
Scientist

Dalhousie University

Ph.D. student, Mahidol University

2005-

Xiangdong
An

Postdoctoral

Fellow

Dalhousie University

 

2006-

Zhenmei
Gu

Postdoctoral
Fellow

Dalhousie University

 

Professional Activities

University Related

1978 – 1980             Graduate Studies Chairman, Computing
Science

1981- 1985              Chairman of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

1985                        Search Committee, SFU VP Research
and Information Systems

                                Search Committee, Director of
SFU Computing Services

1985-                       SFU Senate (reelected in 1988, 1991)

1985 – 1987             SFU Senate Committee on Scholarships and
Awards

1987 – 1992             SFU Senate Committee on Honourary
Degrees

1988 – 1990             BCIT Advisory Committee for Computer
Technology Program

1989                        SFU liaison for Fund Raising of
Chair in Expert Systems for Engineering/Computing

1990                        Search Committee, SFU VP Research
and Information Systems

                                Search Committee, Director of SFU School of Kinesiology

                                Search Committee, Director of
SFU Centre for Image/Sound Research

                                Member of President’s Research
Grant Adjudication Committee, summer

1990- 1992                                                                                 SFU
Senate Committee on Continuing Education

                                Member of Board of Directors of
Centre for Image/Sound Research

1991                        SFU Task Force on Distributed
Computing

1992                        Chairman of University Committee on
Instructional Computing (COIC)

1993 – 1997             University of Regina Assoicate Vice
President Research

1993 – 1997             University of Regina Dean of Graduate
Studies

1993 – 1997             University of Regina International
Liaison Officer

1993 – 1997             University of Regina Senate

1993 – 1997             Saskatchewan Research Council Board

1993 – 1997             University of Regina International
Liaison Officer

1993 –                      1997                                                           Regina
Economic Development Authority member

1993 – 1997             Chairman of the Board – The Development
Institute of Saskatchewan

1995 – 1997             Member of the Board – CIBINT Inc.

1997 – 2001             Chairman of Computing Science, University of Waterloo

1997 – 2002             University of Waterloo Senate

1997 – 1999             University of Waterloo Honourary Degrees
Committee

2000 – 2002             University of Waterloo Senate Finance
Committee

2002 –                                                                                         Dalhousie University Senate

2003 –                                                                                         Dalhousie University Senate Committee on Computing and Information Technology Planning

2002 –                                                                                         Dalhousie
Energy Initiatives

 

Editorships & Editorial Boards

1978 – 1980             Academic Editor for BC, CIPS Review

1982 – 1983             Regional Editor for Comtex Scientific
Corporation – AI Series

1982 –                      Editorial Board of Computers and
Mathematics, Elsevier Science

1984 – 2002             Founding CoEditor for
Computational Intelligence, an International Journal, NRCC Publishers

                                (1984-1991), Basil Blackwells,
Publishers (1991- )

1985 – 1995             Editorial Board of Expert Systems:
Research and Applications Journal

1986 –                      Editorial Board of Applied
Mathematics Letters Journal, Elsevier Science

1988 –                      Editorial Board of Vivek, Bombay India

1993 – 1997             Editorial Board of IEEE Expert

1993 – 1997             Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering

1998 – 2004             Editorial Board of Knowledge and
Information Systems – Amerca’s Editor

1999 – 2001             Editorial Board of ACM SIGMOD Digital
Review

2003 –                                                                                         Editorial
Board of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, IOS Press

2004 -`                    Editor –in-chief of Knowledge
and Information Systems, Springer

 

Academic (research) Related

1978-80                   Book Reviewer for CHum

1979                        Reviewer for Sixth IJCAI

1980                        Session Organizer – Third
CSCSI/SCEIO National Conference

1981                        Session Organizer – Seventh CMCCS
National Conference

                                Reviewer for Seventh IJCAI

1982                        Program Chairman – Fourth
CSCSI/SCEIO National Conference

                                Guest Editor for Computers and
Mathematics 9(1), Special Issue – Comp. Linguistics

1983                        Guest Editor for IEEE Computer
16(10), Special Issue – Knowledge Representation

1983                        Reviewer for Eighth IJCAI

                                Program Committee – First IEEE
COMPDEC Conference

1984                        Panel Session – First IEEE COMPDEC
Conference

                                Reviewer – 24th ACL Conference

                                Panel Session – Fifth
CSCSI/SCEIO Conference

                                Session Organizer – CIPS National
Conference

                                Guest Editor for Computers and
Mathematics 11(5), Special Issue on Practical Art. Int. Sys

1984-85                   Reviewer for INFOR

1985                        Reviewer for Ninth IJCAI

                                Program Chairman
Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding

                                Program Committee – Second IEEE
COMPDEC Conference

1985                       Tutorial Leader on Natural Language
Interfaces – Second IEEE COMPDEC

1986                        Program Committee – Sixth
CSCSI/SCEIO National Conference

                                Program Committee – Third IEEE
COMPDEC Conference

1986-                       Reviewer – IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering

                                Reviewer – ACM SIGIR

1987                        Program Co-Chairman – Seventh
CSCSI/SCEIO National Conference

1988                        Program Committee – Fourth IEEE
COMPDEC Conference

                                Program Committee –
Computational Intelligence Conference – Milan, Italy.

                                Reviewer – IEEE Software, IEEE
Computer, ACM Information Systems, ACMTODS

1989                        Reviewer – IEEE Software, IEEE
Computer, ACM Information Systems, IEEE PAMI

                                Panel Organizer – 11th IFIP
Congress ’89 on Knowledge Based Systems

1990                        Program Chairman for 7th
International IEEE Data Engineering Conf. – Kobe, Japan

                                Program Chairman for 3rd
International Computational Intelligence Conf. – Milan, Italy

                                Panel Organizer – 6th
International IEEE Data Engineering Conf. – Los Angeles, CA.

                                Program Committee for
CSCSI/SCEIO

                                Reviewer for NSERC, SSHRC, BC Science, CSCSI, IEEE PAMI, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer,

                                Computers and Mathematics,…

1991-                       Advisory Board – International
Conference on the App’l of AI in Engineering

                                Program Committee, ICCI’91
Conference

                                General Chairman for 8th
International IEEE Data Engineering Conf. – Phoenix, AZ.

                                CIAR-PRECARN Associate

1992-                       Steering Committee for IEEE Data
Engineering Conference

                                Editorial Board – IEEE Expert

1992                        Program Committee, ICPADS’92 (Int.
Conf. on Parallel & Distributed Systems) – Hsinchu, TW

1992                        Vice Chair – 13th Int. Conf. on
Distributed Computing Systems – Pittsburgh

1993 – 97                 Editorial Board – IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering

                                Program Committee, Data &
Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing & Engr., Hong Kong

1994                        Program Committee, Int. Conference
on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (TAI-6)

1994 –                      Program Committee, VLDB 20, Santiago, Chile

                                Reviewer and Panelist, Expert
Systems and Databases, National Science Foundation, U.S.A.

                                Program Committee, IPCCC’95

                                NSERC CORC committee

1994-95                   Program Committee, First Int. Conf on
Knowledge Discovery & Database Mining (KDD-95)

1995-96                   Program Committee, Second Int. Conf on
Knowledge Discovery & Database Mining (KDD-96)

1995                        Program Committee, Int. Conference
on Rough Sets (RST-95)

1995                        Program Committee, Int. Conference
on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (TAI-7)

1996-97                   Program Committee, Third Int. Conf on
Knowledge Discovery & Database Mining (KDD-97)

1997                        Program Committee, Pacific Assoc.
for Comp. Linguistics (Pacling-97)

1997                        Program Committee, Rough Sets and
Soft Computing (RSSC-97)

1998                        Program Committee, Cdn Society for
Comp. Studies of Intelligence Conf.  (CAI-98)

1998                        Program Committee, Int. Conf. on
Knowledge Based Computer Systems, India  (KBCS-98)

1998                        Program Committee, Int. Conf. on
Knowledge Systems and Dist. Intell., Beijing  (KSDI-98)

1998                        Program Committee, IEEE KDEX Workshop, Taiwan

1999                        Program and General Chairman,
PACLING’99. Waterloo.

2000                        Program Chairman, SNLP’2000, Thailand.

                                Steering Committee for IEEE Data
Mining Conference

                                Program Co-Chairman, IEEE
Data Mining Conference, San Jose, California

                                Program Committee, World
Computer Congress (WCC’2000) in Beijing, August 20-25, 2000.

                                Program Committee, Computational
Intelligence; Methods & Applications (CIMA 2001)

                                Program Committee, CDN
Artificial Intelligence (CSCSI/SCEIO 2001

2001                        
Program Committee (reviewer) for CSCSI/SCEIO’2001, SNLP’2002 in Bangkok, ISMIS’2002,

                                IEEE  International Workshop on
Natural Language processing and Knowledge Engineering

                                (NLPKE’2001), RSCTC’2002, CIMA
2001 and IEEE KDEX Workshop Taiwan.

2002                        Program
Committee (reviewer) for CSCSI/SCEIO’2002, ISMIS’2003, RSCTC’2002

2003                        Program Co-chair,PAKDD’04

                                Program Committee (reviewer) for
CSCSI/SCEIO’2003, ISMIS’2004, RSCTC’2004

                                General Chair, IEEE
WI/IAT’03

                                General Chair,
PACLING’2003

2004                        Program Co-chair, IEEE
WI/IAT’04

Program Committee (reviewer) for PAKDD’05,
ISMIS’2005, FDM05, WI/IAT 2005 – Vice Chair, CSCSI/SCEIO’2004, RSFDGrC
2005, X CIARP, ACL 2005, IEEE GrC

2005                        Program
Committee (reviewer) for PAKDD’06, RSKT2006, IEEE GrC, WSEAS Working Group on
DATA MINING                                                                                      

 

Government Related

1981                        Reviewer – National Science
Foundation Grants

1984                        Site visitor for NSERC

1985                        Site visit committee chairman for
NSERC

1985                       Co-Chairman of Planning Committee –
B.C. Advanced Systems Institute

1986-                                                                                          Member
of Scientific Advisory Board – B.C. Advanced Systems Institute

1988 – 1990             Member of the Interdisciplinary NSERC
Grants Selection Committee

1988                                                                                           Site
visitor for NSERC

1988 – 1989             Member of PRECARN’s IRIS research
committee for Centres of Excellence

1989 –                      member of the IRIS NCE Research
Committee and Project Leader for IRIS

1989 – 1991             NRCC Advisory Committee for Artificial
Intelligence

1990 – 1991             Member of B.C. SPARK Committee on
Information Technology

1990 – 1992             Area Coordinator (knowledge-based
systems) of the IRIS NCE & Project Leader for IRIS

1991                                                                                           Site
visitor for NSERC

1991                        Member of the Interdisciplinary
NSERC Grants Selection Committee (1 extra year)

1991 – 1994             Area Coordinator (knowledge-based
systems) of the IRIS NCE & Project Leader for IRIS

                                invited member of NSERC workshop
on mission statement for information technology

1993 – 1997             Theme Coordinator (human-machine
interfaces) of the IRIS II NCE proposal & Project Leader for

                                IRIS II

1993 – 1997             Canadian Genome Assessment of Technology
(CGAT) management board

1993 –                      1997                                                           Member
of Telecom’s Policy Cmte, Regina Economic Development Authority (REDA)

1993 – 1997             Member of the Provincial
Telecommunications Committee – Provincial Secretary (SK)

1994 – 1997             Member of the Board – CANARIE

1994 – 1997             Member of the Board – CanTech

1994 – 1996             Member of PACE (Provincial Action
Committee on Economics)

1996                        Member of NSF Review Committee

1995                        Member of the Collaborative Grants
Panel – NSERC Committee

1996 – 1998             Member of the Strategic Panel for
Information Technology – NSERC Committee

1998                        Member of NSF Review Committee for
KDI (Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence)

1998 – 2002             Member of the Canadian Foundation for
Innovation Panel

1998 – 2002             Member of the CITO Review Panel

1998                        Member of the Steacie Awards
Committee

1999 – 2003            Member of the Canada Research Chairs
Interdisciplinary Committee

2002                        Member of the Steacie Awards
Committee

2003                        Site visit chair for NSERC Networks
Proposal

2004 –                                                                                         Member
of the NSERC CHRP (Cdn Health Research Projects) Committee

2004                        Member of the Steacie Awards
Committee

 

 

Other

1982 – 1984             President, Canadian Society for the
Computational Studies of Intelligence

1984                        Elected member of the Fifth
Generation steering committee (NSERC)

1984 – 1985             Consultant to Boeing Computer Services, Bellevue, Washington

1985 – 1990             President, Canadian Society for Fifth
Generation Research

1987                        Consultant to AAL Autometrics Ltd.

1989                        External Reviewer of University of Saskatchewan’s Computational Science Department

                                External Reviewer of University
of Ottawa/Carleton joint Ph.D. program in Computing

1989 – 1993             Board of Directors for Centre for Image
and Sound Research (CISR)

1990                        External Reviewer of University of Regina’s Computer Science Department for CIPS

1991 – 1993             Member of Research Committee for Centre
for Image and Sound Research (CISR)

1991 – 1994             President, Cdn Assoc for Computer
Science/Assoc Informtique Canadienne (CACS/AIC)

1993                        External Reviewer of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science

1994                        Consultant to Showbase Media, Aylmer, Quebec

1995 – 1996             External Reviewer of University of
Victoria’s Computer Science Department (Chair of cmte)

1996                        External Reviewer of BCIT’s Bachelor
of Technology Degree (Chair of cmte)

1996                        External Reviewer of Carleton University’s Computer Science Department

1996                        External Reviewer of Acadia Univ’s
Graduate Program in Computer Science (Chair of cmte)

1998 – 1999             Consultant to Open Text Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario

1999 – 2001             External Reviewer of Sultan Qaboos University’s Computer Science Department (Oman)

1999 – 2002             Global Information Networking Institute
– member of the Scientific Advisory Board

2001 – 2002            Consultant to Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2001 –                     Consultant to Mahidol University

2001 –                     Consultant to King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

2001 – 2004            President, PACLING

2003 – 2005            Academic Advisor to Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2004                        External Reviewer of Hong Kong Baptist University’s Computer Science Department

2005                        External Reviewer of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Physics & Computing Department

 

References

*Dr. Gordon McCalla                                                             Professor
B. Chandrasekaran, Director L.A.I.R.

Department of Computer Science                                      Computer
& Information Science Department

University of Saskatchewan                                                  The
Ohio State University

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W0                                   Columbus, Ohio 43210

 

*Prof. Alan Mackworth                                                           *Dr.
Tom Calvert, VP Research

Department of Computer Science                                      Technical University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia                                                 301
– 10334 152A Street

Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5                                 Surrey, BC   V3R 7P8

 

*Dr. Johnny Wong                                                                                  

School of Computer Science                                               

University of Waterloo                                                            

Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1                                                                   

 

* could comment especially
well on administrative capabilities as well as academic abilities

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