Recent Publications

Christie, J, R.Klein, and C.Watters. Accepted by International Journal of Human Computer Studies. September 2003. draft

Watters,C., J.Duffy and K.Duffy.Using Large Table on Small Display Devices. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. 2003. Vol 58. 21-37

B.MacKay and C.Watters. The Impact of Migration of Data to Small Screens on Navigation. IT & Society. 2003. 1(3). 90-101.

C.Watters and G.Amoudi. GeoSearcher: GeoSpatial Ranking of Search Engine results. Proc. of ASIST Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 2002. Preprint

C.Watters, W.Zheng, and E.Milios. Filtering for Medical News Items. To be presented at ASIS conference, Nov. 2002.

Pan, Y., Sensen, C.W., Heywood, M. and M. Shepherd. Integration of Exon Predictions Using Multilayer Perceptron and Mixture of Experts Neural Networks. The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. Edmonton, Canada. 3-7 August 2002. (poster)

Bin Tang, Malcolm I. Heywood, and Michael Shepherd. Input Partitioning to Mixture of Experts. 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Honolulu, Hawaii. 12-17 May 2002. Letter of acceptance 14 January 2002.

Shepherd, M., Watters, C. and Ajitha T. Marath. Adaptive User Modeling for Filtering Electronic News. 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 7-10 January 2002. CD-ROM publication.

Paterson, G., Shepherd, M., Wang., X., Watters, C. and D. Zitner. Using the XML-based Clinical Document Architecture for Exchange of Structured Discharge Summaries. 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 7-10 January 2002. CD-ROM publication.

Wang, X., Gao, Q., Shepherd, M. and M. Smith. 2001. A Web-Based Query Interface for Health Care Data Warehouses. International Transactions in Operational Research. 8(2): 221-234.

Shepherd, Michael, Duffy, J.F., Watters, C. and Nitin Gugle. 2001. The Role of User Profiles in News Filtering. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 149-160.

Michael Shepherd, Anil Dhonde, Carolyn Watters. Building Trust for E-commerce: Collaborating Label Bureaus. The Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce. Hong Kong. 26-28 April 2001.

M. Shepherd, C. Watters, J. Duffy, and R. Kaushik. Browsing and Keyword-Based Profiles: A Cautionary Tale. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 6-9 January 2001.

Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd and Marshall Conley. The Potential for Effective Web Content Control Based on Present Technology. Presented at the KnowRight2000 + InfoEthics Europe Conference. 27-29 September 2000, Vienna, Austria.

M.Shepherd and C.Watters for Industry Canada Content Filtering Technologies and Internet Service Providers: Enabling User Choice

J.Duffy, M.Shepherd, C.Watters, and N.Gugle. Evaluation of User Profiles for Reading News. Journal of American Society for Information Science. Accepted June 2000.

C.Watters and D.Comeau. Adaptive Portals with Wireless Components. to appear in Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web. Quebec City, June 19-21. 2000.

M.Shepherd, C.Watters, and D.Zitner. Medical Portals: Web access to medical information. Proc. of the Thirty-third Hawaii Internat Conf. on System Sciences Maui, Hawaii. 2000.

C.Watters and M.Shepherd. Adaptive Medical Portals. ACM SIGIR Workshop on Customized Information Delivery San Fransisco. August. 1999.

C.Watters. Information Retrieval and the Virtual Document. Journ. of American Soc for Information Science. Aug. 1999.

C.Watters, M.Shepherd, L.Manchester, and T.Chaisson. An Evaluation of Two Metaphors for the Presentation of Electronic News. Accepted to Electronic Publishing, November 1997. Download copy