University of Surrey
School of ECM
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey
GU2 5XH, UK

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Papers in press and due out in 1999/2000

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K and Miles, L. 'Decision Making and the Management of Strategic Resources: Information Flow Between Stakeholders'. In The Second International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems. Brisbane 1-6th Aug. 99.

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K. . 'Emerging Sciences and their terminologies'. In Scientific Conf. on Professional Communication, Terminology and Planned Languages: Marking the Centenary of Eugen Wüster's Birth. Vienna 24-26th Aug. 98.

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K. & Al-Jabir, S. . 'Wüster's Legacy: automatic extraction and representation of terminology from databases'. In Scientific Conf. on Professional Communication, Terminology and Planned Languages: Marking the Centenary of Eugen Wüster's Birth. Vienna 24-26th Aug. 98.

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K., Bolton, D. & Salway, A. . 'Wüster's Legacy: navigating Web-based art galleries through terminology databases'. In Scientific Conf. on Professional Communication, Terminology and Planned Languages: Marking the Centenary of Eugen Wüster's Birth. Vienna 24-26th Aug. 98.

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K. and Gillam. . 'Wüster's Legacy: information extraction and terminology'. In Scientific Conf. on Professional Communication, Terminology and Planned Languages: Marking the Centenary of Eugen Wüster's Birth. Vienna 24-26th Aug. 98.

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K. & Rogers, M. 'Establishing Coherence in Terminology Training: An Integrative Model. Au comencement était le terme: La terminologie au services des enterprises Proc. of a conference held at the Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, 24-25 October 1996).

Forthcoming. Bale, T.A., & Ahmad, K. How Infants Acquire Everyday Mathematics and Everyday Language. Proc. of the Child Language Seminar 1995, Bristol, UK. (In Press).

Forthcoming. Ahmad, K. SAFE-DIS: Safe Design of Distributed Networks. In M. Falla (ed.), 'Advances in Safety Critical Systems: Results and Achievements from the DTI/EPSRC R&D Programme in Safety Critical Systems'. 19 Pages.

Contributed Papers

1999 Ahmad, K. 'Specialist Texts and their Quirks'. In TAMA '98: Proceedings of the 4th TermNet Symposium. (January 26-27, 1998, Vienna). Vienna (Austria): TermNet. pp. 141-157. (ISBN 3-901010-19-X)

1999 Salway, A. & Ahmad, K. Multimedia Systems and Semiotics: Collateral Texts for Video Annotation. In: IEE Electronics and Communications Colloquium Digest, Multimedia Databases and MPEG-7, pp. 7/1-7/7, 29 Jan. 1999, London:IEE. UK. (ISSN 0963-3308-REFERENCE NO:1999/056.)

1998 Salway, A. & Ahmad, K. Talking Pictures: Indexing and Representing Video with Collateral Texts. In (Eds.) Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong and Klaus Netter. Twente Workshop on Language Technology 14 - Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval, December 7-8, 1998. Enschede, The Netherlands. Enschede: Universiteit Twente. pp 85-94 (ISSN 0929-0672)

1998 Ahmad, K. and Tostevin. M. H. . 'Terminology-based text summarization'. In Proceedings of the 4th INFOTERM Symposium: Terminology Work and Knowledge Transfer. Vienna 24-26th Aug. 98. Vienna:TermNet. pp 405-425. (ISBN 3-901010-21-1).

1998 Ahmad, K., Salway, A. & Lansdale, J. (An)notating Dance: Multimodal Storage and Retrieval. In (Eds.) Henry Selvaraj and Brijesh Verma, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications 1998. (Proc. ICCIMA '98, Churchill, Victoria, Australia, 1998). Singapore: World Scientific. pp 788-793 (ISBN 981-02-3352-3)

1997 Ahmad, K. 'Terminology management and knowledge processing in lesser-used languages'. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Terminology. Donostia, San Sebastian (Spain), Nov. 12-14, 1997. Bilbao: UZEI/IVAP. pp 465-494. (ISBN 84-89135-04-5)

1996 Price, R., Ahmad, K. Safety-critical design and analysis of water carrying networks. In (Ed.) Andreas Muller. Hydroinformatics '96. (Proc. of the Second Int. Conference on Hydroinformatics, Zurich, 1996). Rotterdam, Brookfield: A.A. Balkema. pp349-353 (ISBN 90-5410-852-5)

1996 Price, R., Ahmad, K. Hydroinformatics and terminology management.. In (Ed.) Andreas Muller. Hydroinformatics '96. (Proc. of the Second Int. Conference on Hydroinformatics, Zurich, 1996). Rotterdam, Brookfield: A.A. Balkema. pp 225-230 (ISBN 90-5410-852-5)

1996 Salway, A., Ahmad, K. & Collingham, S. Safe-DIS: Computer Programs for the Safe Design of Urban Drainage Networks. In (eds.) Friedhelm Sieker & Hans-Reinhard Verworn. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Urban Storm Drainage, Hannover, Germany, 1996. Hannover: Sug Verlagsgesellschaft. pp. 1575-1580. (ISBN 3-00-000860-8)

1995 Ahmad, K. 'The quality of taste: Sensory perception, knowledge and terminology.' In (Ed.) Gerhard Budin Multilingualism in Specialist Communication: 10th European LSP-Symposium. Vienna, Austria (29 Aug.-.1 Sept. 1995).' Vienna (Austria): Int. Institute for Terminology Research. pp 665-696 (ISBN 3-901010-16-5).

1995 Ahmad, K. & Holmes-Higgin, P.R. System Quirk: A unified approach to text and terminology. In Terminology in Advanced Microcomputer Applications: Proc. of the 3rd TermNet Symposium; Recent Advances and User Reports. TermNet: Vienna, Austria. pp.181-194. (ISBN 3-901010-12-2) !!! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT !!! System Quirk now available for purchase - ordering details.

1995 Ahmad, K. & Thiopoulos, C. Terminological storage and filtering of unstructured multimedia information. In (eds) Yuichiro Anzai, Katsuhiko Ogawa & Hirohiko Mori. Symbiosis of Human and Artifact: Future Computing and Design for Human-Computer Interaction. (Proc. of the Sixth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction -HCI International '95 - Tokyo Japan, 9-14 July 1995), Volume 1. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Elsevier Science Publications B.V. pp 241-247 (ISBN 0-44-81795 6; ISSN 0921-2647)

1994 Abidi, S.S.R & Ahmad, K. 'Unsupervised' category learning in a hybrid connectionist architecture. Proc. of the South East Asia Region Computer Conference '94, Karachi, Pakistan. pp 60-74.

1994 Ahmad, K. Specialist discourse and expert systems: A new dimension of terminology management. In Proc. from the conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Handelshojskole Syd, Denmark (Forelaesninger ved Handelshojskole Syd's 10 îrs jubilaeum). Kolding, Denmark: Handelshojskole Syd. pp. 52-66. (ISBN 87-89087-70-4)

1994 Saleem, M.T., Das, P. & Ahmad, K. Computerised Fertiliser Data Base: Pakistan Experience. In Proc. ICCS-IV, Lahore, Pakistan, pp.269-276.

1994 Ahmad, K., Griffin, S.M. & Shaw, P.J. A Systematic Knowledge-based Approach to Licensing Water Resources. In B. Coulbeck (ed.), Integrated Computer Applications for Water Supply and Distribution 1993. Volume 1: Methods and Procedures for System Simulation and Control., Taunton (Somerset):Research Studies Press Ltd. pp 407-424. (ISBN 0 863 801544)

1994 Ahmad, K. & Rogers, M. Text-based concept-oriented terminology - Eine Neuorientierung? In A. Grinsted & B. N. Madsen. Festskrift til Gert Engel - anledning af hans 70 îrs fardeslsdag. Kolding, Denmark: Handelshojskole Syd. pp 134-147. (ISBN 87-593-0504-5)

1994 Ahmad, K. & Rogers, M. Computerised Terminology for Translators: The role of text. In M. Brekke, O. Andersen, T. Dahl & J. Myking (eds.), Applications and Implications of Current LSP Research (9th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes, Bergen, Norway), Volume 2, pp. 840-851. (ISBN 82-7674-119-3)

1994 Griffin, S.M. & Ahmad, K. Archiving Knowledge: Before and After the Interview. In D. Lukose (ed.), Proc. of the Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory, Int. Conference on Conceptual Structures, Maryland, USA.

1993 Ahmad, K. & Holmes-Higgin, P. Knowledge as lexical entities: Issues in Representing and Resaoning. In (ed.) R. J. Collingham (ed.) Proceedings of Speech and Language Technology Club Workshop on the Unified Lexicon. 15-17 December 1993. Durham:St. Aidan College, Univ. Durham. pp 33-35.

1993 Fuchs, L., Bauwens, W., Griffin, S.M., Elgy, J. & Maksimovic, C. Advanced Computer Techniques for the Design and Renovation of Sewer Systems. In J. Marsalek & H.C. Torno (eds.), Proc. of the 6th Int. Conference on Urban Storm Drainage - Volume 2. Victoria, Canada: Seapoint Publishing, pp. 1296-1301. (ISBN 1-55056-254-1)

1993 Fulford, H., Griffin, S.M. & Ahmad, K. Resources for Knowledge Transfer and Training: The Exploitation of Domain Documentation and Database Technology. In J. Marsalek & H.C. Torno (eds.), Proc. of the 6th Int. Conference on Urban Storm Drainage - Volume 2. Victoria, Canada: Seapoint Publishing, pp. 1332-1338. (ISBN 1-55056-254-1)

1993 Griffin, S.M. & Ahmad, K. On-line Urban Drainage Education: Active Documents. In J. Marsalek & H.C. Torno (eds.), Proc. of the 6th Int. Conference on Urban Storm Drainage - Volume 2. Victoria, Canada: Seapoint Publishing, pp. 1339-1344. (ISBN 1-55056-254-1)

1993 Griffin, S.M., Bauwens, W. & Ahmad, K. UDMIA: Urban Drainage Modelling Intelligent Assistant. In J. Marsalek & H.C. Torno (eds.), Proc. of the 6th Int. Conference on Urban Storm Drainage - Volume 2. Victoria, Canada: Seapoint Publishing, pp. 1314-1319. (ISBN 1-55056-254-1)

1993 Hook, S., Ahmad, K. & Griffin, S.M. The Exchange and Storage of Lexical Resources Using Standards: MULTILEX and SGML. In Proc. of Documentation Europe '93, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (Available as Computing Sciences Technical Report CS-93-05. University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey.)

1993 Ahmad, K. & Rogers, M. Terminology and Knowledge Processing. In Y. Gambier & H. Tommola (eds.) 1992 Proc. of the Fourth Scandinavian Symposium on Translation Theory (SSOTT IV). Turku: Grafia Oy, pp.167-181. (ISBN 951-880 951 8).

1992 Ahmad, K., Davies, A.E., Fulford, H. & Rogers, M. What is a Term? The Semi-Automatic Extraction of Terms from Text. In M. Snell-Hornby, F. Pöchhacker & K. Kaindl (eds.), Translation Studies - An Interdiscipline. (Translation Studies Congress, Vienna, Austria). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (1994), pp. 267-278. (ISBN 90 272 2141 3 (Eur)/1-55619-478-1 (US)

1992 Griffin, S.M. & Ahmad, K. Intelligent Assistants and the Management of Strategic Resources. In B. Topping (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Applications for Civil and Structural Engineers - Proc. of Civil-Comp '91.

1991 Ahmad, K. & Fulford, H. 'Terminology for Interdisciplinary Fields: A New Perspective.' In (Eds.) M. Kromer-Benz & A. Manu. Terminology Work in Subject Fields: Proc. of the 3rd Infoterm Symposium - Vienna 12-14 Nov. 1991. Vienna:TermNet pp. 568-587. (ISBN 3-901010-04-1)

1991 Ahmad, K. & Griffin, S.M. The Acquisition of Knowledge for Controlling and Rehabilitating Networks. In C. Maksimovic (ed.), Proc. of the Conference on Urban Drainage and New Technologies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 17-21 June, 1991. pp 94-105. (ISBN 86-80049-04-2)

1990 Rogers, M. & Ahmad, K. The Learner, Learner's Errors and Intelligent Computer-Assisted Learning. In Stockholm Papers in English Language and Literature (Publication No. 6): Proc. of the Stockholm Conference on the Use of Computers in Language Research and Teaching. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, pp. 93-112.

1989 Ahmad, K., Holmes-Higgin, P.R. & Langdon, A. Analysis of Expert Systems for Fluid Flow in Networks using a Qualitative Reasoning Approach. In C. Maksimovic & M. Radokovic (eds.), Proc. of Hydrocomp '89, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. London: Elsevier Applied Science, pp. 394-403. (ISBN 1-85166-374-6)

1989 Ahmad, K., Langdon, A. & Frieze, P. An Expert System for Offshore Inspection and Maintenance. In B. Topping (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Applications for Civil and Structural Engineers. Edinburgh: Civil-Comp Press, pp. 221-232.

1989 Ahmad, K. Q2X: An (Expert) Systems Approach to the Quantity and Quality Management of Strategic Resources. In D. Wheeler, M.L. Richardson & J. Bridges (eds.), Watershed 89 - The Future of Water Quality in Europe. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 129-145. (ISBN 0 08 037377 1, 2 volume set)

1988 Ahmad, K., Holmes-Higgin, P.R., Hornsby, C.P.W. & Langdon, A. Fluid Flow in Networks: An Expert System/Qualitative Reasoning Approach. Papers for the Powerful Computing Systems for Fluid Flow Applications. Organised by the British Hydraulics Research Association, Cranfield, Bedford.

1988 Ahmad, K., Holmes-Higgin, P.R., Hornsby, C.P.W., Langdon, A. & Metcalfe, M.J. The Water Industry Expert Systems Club: A Review. Proc. of the UK IT '88 Conference (Swansea, UK, 4-7 July 1988)). pp. 11-14. London: Information Engineering Directorate, Deptt. of Trade and Industry.

1988 Thomas, P., Ahmad, K., Barbour, S., Judge, A. & Reeves, N. Development of a Term Bank at the University of Surrey. In G. M. Anderman & M. Rogers (eds.), Translation for Professional Purposes II: Proc. of the British Association of Applied Linguists Seminar, 1986. University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey.

1987 Ahmad, K., Hornsby, C.P.W. & Langdon, A. Expert Systems in Urban Storm Drainage. Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on Urban Storm DrainageùVolume 5: Urban Storm Water Quality, Planning and Management. Lausanne, pp. 297-302.

1987 Ahmad, K. & MacDonald, A. An expert system on tolerance in Mechanical Design. In Expert Systems for Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Detroit: Engineering Society of Detroit and the U.S. Society of Machine Intelligence, pp. 309-326.

1985 Ahmad, K., Langdon, A., Moss, W.D. & Price, R.K. Implementation Issues of Hydrological Expert Systems: A Civil Engineering Case Study. In B. Topping (ed.), Proc. of the 2nd Engineering Computing Conference. Volume 2, pp. 407-414 (ISBN 0-948749-06-7).


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