Edited Conference Proceedings

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Scott D. Goodwin, Advances in Artificial Intelligence: The 17th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence-Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 3060, Springer Verlag, 2004.

Book Chapters

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Model-based Diagnosis: A Probabilistic Extension, in Anthony Hunter and Simon Parsons (Editors) Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms , Springer, 1998.

• Zhiwen Wu, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Towards Knowledge-based Chance Discovery, in Chen, C.-S.; Filipe, J.; Seruca, I.; Cordeiro, J. (Eds.) Enterprise Information Systems VII, Best paper from ICEIS 2005, Springer, 2006.

Journal Publications

• Zina Ibrahim,, Alioune Ngom and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Using Qualitative Probability in Reverse-Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Volume 8, No. 2, pp.326-333, 2011.

• Christopher Tighe and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Using Causal Knowledge to Guide Retrieval and Adaptation in Case-based Reasoning about Dynamic Processes, International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 12(No. 4), pp. 271-281, 2008.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Shakil Khan, Temporal Relevance in Dynamic Decision Networks with Sparse Evidence, International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Special Issue on Uncertain Temporal Reasoning, Vol. 23 No.2, 2005.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Baher Abdulhai, Aidong Peng, and Syed M. Tabib,  Improving the Accuracy of Vehicle Signature Re-identification Using Decision Trees, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1886 (Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicle-Highway Automation 2004), pp. 24-33, 2004.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Chance Discovery and Inductive Reasoning, Minds and Machines. Vol. 14. No. 4, pp. 441-451, 2004.

• Christopher Tighe and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Student Modeling and Distance  Education, Journal of Internet Education: Technology and Human Development, Vol. 2, pp. 47-55, 2003.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld. Temporal Reasoning and Bayesian Networks. Computational Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2000.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Changing times: a causal theory of probabilistic temporal reasoning. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 11 No.1, 1999.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Solving the Frame Problem: Book Review, Knowledge Engineering Review, 14, 181-185, September 1999.

• Qiuming Zhu and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Quantitative object motion prediction by an ART2 and Madaline combined neural network: Concepts and Experiments, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1995.

•  Qiuming Zhu and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Quantitative object motion prediction by an ART2 and Madaline combined neural network, Neural Processing Letters , January 1995.

Publications in Conference Proceedings

• Zina Ibrahim, Alioune Ngom,and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, A dynamic qualitative probabilistic network approach for extracting gene regulatory network motifs. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM’10), pp. 380 - 385, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, A Surprise-Based Qualitative Probability Calculus II, Proceedings of the Twenty-third FLAIRS International Conference, pp. 561-562, AAAI Press, 2010.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, Qualitative Motif Detection in Gene Regulatory Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine(BIBM’09), pp. 124-129, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009.

• Marwa F. Khater and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Context Evolution in Conceptual Spaces, Proceedings of the Twenty-first IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009), pp. 147-150, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Hijaz Al-Ani, Meeting Scheduling Assembles Agents in the Rectangular Forest, Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 2009.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, A Surprise-based Qualitative Probability Calculus, Proceedings of the Twenty Second Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS'2009), pp. 573-574, 2009.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, Surprise-based Qualitative Probabilistic Networks, The 10th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU'2009), pp. 228-239., 2009.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Nasr Kasrin, Integrating Causal Knowledge in Case-based Retrieval: Causal Decomposition of Cases, In Proceedings of the Thirteenth UK Workshop on Case Based Reasoning (UKCBR-2008), 2008.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, Qualitative Hidden Markov Models for Classifying Gene Expression Data, Proceedings of AI-2008 Twenty-eigth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge UK, December 2008.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Rana R. Farag, Modeling the Spread of Preventable Diseases: Social Culture and Epidemiology, Proceedings of IFIP AI 2008: The Theory and Practice of AI, 2008.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Randa El-Marakby, Spatial Clustering of Wireless Sensor Network Nodes Based on Packet Loss, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT'07), December 2007, pp. 884-888.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, On Middleware Support for Motion Awareness, Proceedings of the Third IET Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'07), Ulm, Germany, 2007.

• Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom,  Hidden Markov Models for Qualitative Spatio-temporal Reasoning, The European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2007), LNAI, Springer, 2007.

• Zina Ibrahim, and Ahmed Y. Tawfik,  An Abstract Theory and Ontology of Motion Based on the Regions Connection Calculus, Symposium of Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 2007), LNAI, Springer, 2007.

• Zina Ibrahim and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Representing Motion Uncertainty for Spatio-Temporal Vague Regions, ECAI Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 2006.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Lawrence Barsanti, Road Segment Identification in Natural Language Text, IFIP AI 2006 - Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, 2006.

• Christopher A. Tighe and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Using Causal Knowledge in Case Based Reasoning about Dynamic Processes, ICCBR-05 Workshop on Similarities, Processes and Workflows, Chicago, IL, August 2005.

• Zina Ibrahim and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, A Qualitative Spatiotemporal Abstraction of a Disaster Space, Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation(SARA’2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.

• Zhiwen Wu, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Towards Knowledge-based Chance Discovery, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005), Miami, FL, 2005.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Zina Ibrahim, Dong Liang, Robert Price, Li Qin, and Zhiwen Wu, ARK Team Description: A Change-based Approach to Urban Rescue, Proceedings of RoboCup 2004: The 8th RoboCup International Symposium. Lisbon,  Portugal, 2004.

• Zina Ibrahim and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Spatiotemporal Reasoning about Vague Regions, Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2004), 2004.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Baher Abdulhai, Aidong Peng, and Syed M. Tabib,  Improving the Accuracy of Vehicle Signature Re-identification Using Decision Trees, Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers, Washington D.C., January 2004.

• Christopher Tighe and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Student Modeling and Distance  Education,  Proceedings of the 2nd International Internet  Education Conference (IIEC'2003), 2003.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Aidong Peng, Seyed Tabib, and Baher Abdulhai, Learning Spatio-temporal Context for Vehicle Reidentification, Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, December 2002.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Shakil Khan, Temporal Relevance in Dynamic Decision Networks with Sparse Evidence, Proc. of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2002 .

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Reasoning with Temporal Patterns, The 6th International Conference Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing (ASC 2002), July 17-19, 2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Towards Temporal Reasoning Using Qualitative Probability. Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference. Pensacola, AAAI Press, 2002.

• Rabih Neouchi, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Richard Frost, Towards a Temporal Extension of Formal Concept Analysis . Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational studies of Intelligence, Ottawa, 2001.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Greg Scott. Temporal Matching under Uncertainty. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Key West, FL, 2001.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Krista Strickland. Mining Medical Data for Causal and Temporal Patterns The Fourth European Conference on the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Lyon, France, 2000.

• Wael Farag and Ahmed Y. Tawfik. On Fuzzy Model Identification and the Gas Furnace Data. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control ISC 2000 Honolulu, HI, 2000.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Trevor Barrie, Degeneration of Relevance under Uncertainty. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, May 2000. Springer LNAI Vol. 1822.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Changing Defaults in Model-Based Diagnosis , in the Proceedings of the Tenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium FLAIRS-97 , 1997

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Bidirectional Inference in Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning , in the Proc. of Time-97: Fourth International Workshop on Temporal Knowledge Representation and Reasoning , Daytona, Florida, 1997.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Irrelevance in Uncertain Temporal Reasoning, Proceedings of Time-96: Third International Workshop on Temporal Knowledge Representation and Reasoning , Key West, Florida, 1996.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Surprises in Probabilistic Reasoning, in the Proc. of the Ninth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium FLAIRS-96 , 1996.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Lifetime Information for Model-Based Diagnosis in the Proceedings of TIME'95: Second International Workshop on Temporal Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Eric Neufeld, Temporal Bayesian Networks in the Proceedings of TIME'94: International Workshop on Temporal Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

• Eric Neufeld, Greg Adams, Henry Choy, Ron Orthner, Tim Philip and Ahmed Tawfik, Part-of-speech Tagging from Small Data Sets, Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Qiuming Zhu, Neural Network Prediction of Short-term Motions of Mobile Objects in Noisy Environments, Proc. of SPIE'93 conf. on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks IV, Orlando, Florida, 1993.