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Technical Report List (part B)

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Ball, M.D.:

1987-203
"Holographic Imaging of S.E.M. Data", by J. Kulick, M.D. Ball, S.A. Benton, C. Gallerneault, E. Krantz, L. Wilson and S. Whitmarsh. 5 pages.

Banger, C.:

1981-123
"GPAS Pascal Graphics Package Users Manual", by C. Banger, June 1981. 16 pages.

Barnard, David:

1996-396 available in PDF (131.310 Kbytes) and Postscript (145.610 Kbytes)
"The Text Encoding Initiative: Flexible and Extensible Document Encoding", by David T. Barnard and Nancy M. Ide.
1995-384 available in PDF (262.336 Kbytes) and Postscript (308.091 Kbytes)
"Polylogarithmic Parallel Parsing", by James P. Schmeiser and David T. Barnard, April 1995.
1995-378 available in PDF (106.230 Kbytes) and Postscript (122.568 Kbytes)
"Producting a Top-Down Parse Order with Bottom-Up Parsing", by James P. Schmeiser and David T. Barnard, March 1995. 6 pages.
1995-375 available in PDF (169.557 Kbytes) and Postscript (182.335 Kbytes)
"Lessons Learned from Using SGML in the Text Encoding Initiative", by David T. Barnard, Lou Burnard and C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, February 1995.
1995-372 available in PDF (296.238 Kbytes) and Postscript (343.989 Kbytes)
"Tree-to-Tree Correction for Document Trees", by David T. Barnard, Gwen Clarke and Nicholas Duncan, January 1995. 44 pages.
1994-371 available in PDF (227.160 Kbytes) and Postscript (226.506 Kbytes)
"A Simple Functional Language Compiler ", by David T. Barnard, October 1994. 26 pages.
1991-322
"Parallel Parsing of LL", by D.T. Barnard and D.B. Skillicorn.
1991-315
"The Document-To-Document Correction Problem", by N. Duncan and D. Barnard.
1991-308
"A Review of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)", by D. Barnard, I. Macleod and B. Nordin.
1991-299
"Bibliography on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and Related Issues", by Robin Cover, Nicholas Duncan and David T. Barnard.
1990-289
"A Survey Of Parallel Compilation", by D. B. Skillicorn and D. T. Barnard.
1990-288
"Deriving Associative Operators For Language Recognition", by David Barnard, J. P. Schmeiser and D. B. Skillicorn.
1990-281
"Bibliography On Structured Text", by Nicholas Duncan and David T. Barnard.
1990-280
"Workshop on Parallel Compilation Proceedings", by David T. Barnard and David B. Skillicorn.
1990-273
"Compact Representation of Text Files", by David Alex Lamb and David T. Barnard, March 1990.
1990-267
"Parallel Compilation: A Status Report", by D.T. Barnard and D.B. Skillicorn, January 1990.
1989-265
"Adding Hypertext Links to an Archive of Documents", by Eanass Fahmy and David T. Barnard, December 1989.
1989-262
"An Archive of Structured Texts", by David Barnard and Ian A. Macleod, December 1989.
1988-211
"SL Parses the LR Languages", by D.T. Barnard and J.R. Cordy, February 1988. 18 pages.
1988-210
"MODE: A Generic Knowledge Base of Organizational Decision Making Activities", by A.R. Reuber and D.T. Barnard. 25 pages.
1988-209
"Parallel Parsing on the Connection Machine", by D.B. Skillicorn and D.T. Barnard, January 1988. 9 pages.
1987-204
"SGML-Based Markup for Literary Texts: Two Problems and Some Solutions", by David Barnard, Ron Hayer, Maria Karababa, George Logan and John McFadden. 18 pages.
1981-127
"Hierarchic Syntax Error Repair for LR Grammars", by D.T. Barnard and R.C. Holt, October 1981. 28 pages.
1981-126
"Experience with Verification of Parallel Modula Programs", by Alan Cheuk-Wai Ma and D.T. Barnard, September 1981. 24 pages. Ma is from Bata Shoe Co..
1981-125
"Syntax Error Handling Techniques", by D.T. Barnard, September 1981. Computer Systems Research Group, Univ. of Toronto (on leave from C&IS Queen's). 23 pages.
1981-124
"A Kernel for Office Information System Implementation", by D.T. Barnard and I.A. Macleod, August 1981. 26 pages.
1980-98
"Design, Analysis and Implementation of a Parallel Alpha-Beta Algorithm", by S.G. Akl, D.T. Barnard and R.J. Doran, April 1980. 51 pages.
1980-113
"A Modular Design of a General Framework for Interactive Systems", by D.L. Batten, D.T. Barnard and I.A. Macleod, December 1980. 26 pages.
1980-103
"The Towers of Hanoi: An Exercise in Non-Recursive Algorithm Development", by D.T. Barnard, June 1980. 18 pages.
1979-87
"Searching Game Trees in Parallel", by S.G. Akl, D.T. Barnard and R.J. Doran, November 1979. 36 pages.

Barrowman, David:

1995-394 available in PDF (211.596 Kbytes) and Postscript (519.402 Kbytes)
"The Performance of SQL Queries on an X.500 Directory System", by David Barrowman and Patrick Martin, November 1995. 28 pages.

Batten, D.L.:

1980-114
"A Modular Design for Interactive Systems", by D.L. Batten, December 1980. 126 pages.
1980-113
"A Modular Design of a General Framework for Interactive Systems", by D.L. Batten, D.T. Barnard and I.A. Macleod, December 1980. 26 pages.

Becker, H.S.:

1983-150
"Universal Relation Theory as Applied to Bibliographic Data", by R.G. Crawford, H.S. Becker and J.E. Ogilvie, September 1983. 13 pages.

Belzile, Chantal:

1986-180
"R-Net: A Hard Real-Time Distributed Programming System", by Chantal Belzile, Michael Coulas, G.H. MacEwen and Genevieve Marquis, May 1986. 29 pages.

Benoit, Darcy:

2003-469 available in PDF (166.357 Kbytes) and Postscript (783.332 Kbytes)
"Today.s DBMSs: How autonomic are they?", by Said Elnaffar, Wendy Powley, Darcy Benoit and Pat Martin, September 2003. 9 pages.

Benton, S.A.:

1987-203
"Holographic Imaging of S.E.M. Data", by J. Kulick, M.D. Ball, S.A. Benton, C. Gallerneault, E. Krantz, L. Wilson and S. Whitmarsh. 5 pages.

Bermond, J. C.:

1991-310
"De Bruijn Bus Networks and Their Generalization", by F O. Ergincan, R.W. Dawes and J. C. Bermond.

Blevis, Eli:

1991-311
"A Case-Based Approach to Decision Support", by N. Duncan, E. Blevis and J. Glasgow.
1990-294
"An Approach To Interactive Creative Reasoning Systems", by Eli Bernard Blevis.
1988-212
"The Nial AI Toolkit", by M.A. Jenkins, J.I. Glasgow, E. Blevis, R. Chau, E. Hache and D. Lawson. 15 pages.

Blostein, Dorothea:

2010-574 available in PDF (429.743 Kbytes) and Postscript (6.922 Mbytes)
"DiffLDA: Topic Evolution in Software Projects", by Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Dorothea Blostein, July 2010. 24 pages.
1997-404
"N-grams: A Well-structured Knowledge Representation for Recognition of Graphical Documents.", by Edward Lank and Dorothea Blostein, January 1997.
1995-373 available in PDF (247.770 Kbytes) and Postscript (1.721 Mbytes)
"Practical Use of Graph Rewriting", by Dorothea Blostein, Hoda Fahmy and Ann Grbavec, January 1995. 40 pages.

Blouin, S.:

2000-440 available in PDF (1.035 Mbytes) and Postscript (3.599 Mbytes)
"An Application of Discrete-Event Theory to Truck Dispatching", by S. Blouin, M. Guay and K. Rudie, September 2000.

Bowles, Natalie Alexandra:

2004-485 available in PDF (417.377 Kbytes) and Postscript (4.697 Mbytes)
"Enforcing Resource-Aware Policies Using Run-time Monitoring", by Natalie Alexandra Bowles, January 2004. 103 pages.

Brace, C.M.:

1977-46
"Automatic Rib Detection in Chest Radiographs", by C.M. Brace, January 1977. 114 pages. Published jointly as: Technical Note 26, Image Processing Laboratory.

Bradbury, Jeremy S.:

2006-524 available in PDF (240.650 Kbytes) and Postscript (1.679 Mbytes)
"Discovering Architectural Mismatch in Distributed Event-based Systems using Software Model Checking", by L. Ruhai Cai, Jeremy S. Bradbury and Juergen Dingel, October 2006. 15 pages.
2006-520 available in PDF (241.746 Kbytes) and Postscript (2.419 Mbytes)
"Mutation Operators for Concurrent Java (J2SE 5.0)", by Jeremy S. Bradbury, James R. Cordy and Juergen Dingel, November 2006. 22 pages.
2006-519 available in PDF (658.453 Kbytes) and Postscript (1.754 Mbytes)
"ExMAn: A Generic and Customizable Framework for Experimental Mutation Analysis", by Jeremy S. Bradbury, James R. Cordy and Juergen Dingel, October 2006. 9 pages.
2006-518 available in PDF (226.717 Kbytes) and Postscript (883.444 Kbytes)
"Using Mutation for the Assessment and Optimization of Tests and Properties", by Jeremy S. Bradbury, August 2006. 8 pages.
2004-477 available in PDF (601.998 Kbytes) and Postscript (3.161 Mbytes)
"Organizing Definitions and Formalisms for Dynamic Software Architectures", by Jeremy S. Bradbury, March 2004. 49 pages.

Browse, Roger:

2002-458 available in PDF (1.429 Mbytes) and Postscript (495.949 Kbytes)
"Using Competitive Learning to Handle Missing Values in Astrophysical Datasets", by R.A. Browse, D.B. Skillicorn and S.M. McConnell, August 2002. 15 pages.
1988-222
"Invocation Matching Using Geon Structure", by Ian G.R. Smith and Roger A. Browse. N.A.
1985-165
"A Framework for Robotic Perception", by R.A. Browse and S.J. Lederman, January 1985, N.A.
1984-162
"Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence", by J.I. Glasgow and R. Browse, August 1984. 34 pages.

Bruda, Stefan D.:

2001-446 available in PDF (267.304 Kbytes) and Postscript (275.552 Kbytes)
"On the Relation Between Parallel Real-Time Computations and Sublogarithmic Space", by Stefan D. Bruda and Selim G. Akl, June 2001. 15 pages.
2000-438 available in PDF (288.563 Kbytes) and Postscript (357.361 Kbytes)
"Pursuit and Evasion on a Ring: An Infinite Hierarchy for Parallel Real-Time Systems", by Stefan D. Bruda and Selim G. Akl, September 2000. 19 pages.
2000-435 available in PDF (319.265 Kbytes) and Postscript (353.105 Kbytes)
"Real-time computation: A formal definition and its applications", by S.D. Bruda and S.G. Akl, February 2000. 23 pages.
1999-429 available in PDF (163.565 Kbytes) and Postscript (144.700 Kbytes)
"On the power of real--time Turing machines: k tapes are more powerful than k-1 tapes", by S.D. Bruda and S.G. Akl, July 1999. 8 pages.
1999-428 available in PDF (228.721 Kbytes) and Postscript (222.493 Kbytes)
"Towards a meaningful formal definition of real--time computations", by S.D. Bruda and S.G. Akl, July 1999. 16 pages.
1999-424 available in PDF (193.333 Kbytes) and Postscript (192.006 Kbytes)
"Parallel real-time numerical computation: Beyond speedup III", by S.G. Akl and S.D. Bruda, May 1999. 16 pages.
1999-423 available in PDF (171.040 Kbytes) and Postscript (170.218 Kbytes)
"Parallel real-time cryptography: Beyond speedup II", by S.G. Akl and S.D. Bruda, May 1999. 13 pages.
1999-421 available in PDF (152.209 Kbytes) and Postscript (144.468 Kbytes)
"Parallel real-time optimization: Beyond speedup", by S.G. Akl and S.D. Bruda, January 1999. 12 pages.
1998-420 available in PDF (252.384 Kbytes) and Postscript (285.097 Kbytes)
"A Case Study in Real-Time Parallel Computation: Correcting Algorithms", by Stefan D. Bruda and Selim G. Akl, December 1998.
1998-418 available in PDF (206.039 Kbytes) and Postscript (213.516 Kbytes)
"The Characterization of Data-Accumulating Algorithms", by S.D. Bruda and S.G. Akl, August 1998.
1998-417 available in PDF (208.371 Kbytes) and Postscript (205.665 Kbytes)
"On the data-accumulating paradigm", by S.D. Bruda and S. G. Akl, April 1998.

Burnard, Lou:

1995-375 available in PDF (169.557 Kbytes) and Postscript (182.335 Kbytes)
"Lessons Learned from Using SGML in the Text Encoding Initiative", by David T. Barnard, Lou Burnard and C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, February 1995.

Burnfield, R.:

1980-105
"RAID: A Program for the Recovery, Alteration and Inspection of Diskettes", by R. Burnfield, June 1980. 19 pages.