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Ph.D. Thesis: Discovery of Causality and Acausality from Temporal Sequential Data

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Pending Patent:

Richard Harris, Geordie Rose, Kamran Karimi, Systems and Methods for Quantum Computation Using Real Physical Hardware, Number WO/2010/151581A2, Download PDF.

Refereed Journal Papers:

• Kamran Karimi, Challenges of Upgrading a Virtual Appliance,
  Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, Volume 3, Number 7, 2012.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0546
• Kamran Karimi, Neil G. Dickson, Firas Hamze, M.H.S. Amin, Marshall Drew-Brook, Fabian A. Chudak, Paul I. Bunyk, William G. Macready, Geordie Rose, Investigating the Performance of an Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Processor,
  Quantum Information Processing, Volume 11, Number 1, 2012.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4147
• M. W. Johnson, M. H. S. Amin, S. Gildert, T. Lanting, F. Hamze, N. Dickson, R.Harris, A. J. Berkley, J. Johansson, P. Bunyk, E. M. Chapple, C. Enderud, J. P. Hilton, K. Karimi, E. Ladizinsky, N. Ladizinsky, T. Oh, I. Perminov, C. Rich, M. C. Thom, E. Tolkacheva, C. J. S. Truncik, S. Uchaikin, J.Wang, B.Wilson, G. Rose, Quantum annealing with manufactured spins,
  Nature, Volume 473 Number 7346, 2011.
• Neil G. Dickson, Kamran Karimi, Firas Hamze, Importance of Explicit Vectorization for CPU and GPU Software Performance,
  Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 230, Issue 13, 2011.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0024
• Kamran Karimi, Neil G. Dickson, Firas Hamze, High-Performance Physics Simulations Using Multi-Core CPUs and GPGPUs in a Volunteer Computing Context,
  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications., Volume 25, issue 1, 2011.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0023
• Firas Hamze, Neil Dickson, Kamran Karimi, Robust Parameter Selection for Parallel Tempering,
  International Journal of Modern Physics C, Volume 21, issue 5, 2010.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2840
• R. Harris, M.W. Johnson, T. Lanting, A.J. Berkley, J. Johansson, P. Bunyk, E. Tolkacheva, E. Ladizinsky, N. Ladizinsky, T. Oh, F. Cioata, I. Perminov, P. Spear, C. Enderud, C. Rich, S. Uchaikin, M.C. Thom, E.M. Chapple, J. Wang, B. Wilson, M.H.S. Amin, N. Dickson, K. Karimi, B. Macready, C.J.S. Truncik, G. Rose, Experimental Investigation of an Eight-Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor,
  Physical Review B 82 02411, 2010.
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1628
• Xing Li, Howard J. Hamilton, Kamran Karimi, Liqiang Geng, The Multi-Tree Cubing Algorithm for Computing Iceberg Cubes,
  Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Volume 33, Number 2, October 2009. pp. 179-208.
• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Generation and Interpretation of Temporal Decision Rules,
  International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM), Volume 3, 2011. pp. 314 -323
  A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3334

Refereed Conference Papers:

• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton,Using Dependence Diagrams to Summarize Decision Rule Sets,
  The Twenty-first Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI'2008), Windsor, Canada, May 2008. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Mohsen Sharifi, Transparent Distributed Programming under Linux,
  The 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS'2006), St. John's, Canada, May 2006.
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• Kamran Karimi, Mehran Mehrandezh, and Howard J. Hamilton, A Proposal for Self-Recognition in Robot Programming,
  The 18th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'2005) , Saskatoon, Canada, May 2005.
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• Howard J. Hamilton and Kamran Karimi, The TIMERS II Algorithm for the Discovery of Causality,
  The Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'2005), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 2005. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Using TimeSleuth for Discovering Temporal/Causal Rules: A Comparison of Methods,
  The Sixteenth Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI'2003), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2003. pp. 175-189. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi, Back to the Future: Changing the Direction of Time for the Discovery of Causality,
  Student Paper at The Sixteenth Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI'2003), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2003. pp. 624-626. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Distinguishing Causal and Acausal Temporal Relations,
  The seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'2003), Seoul, South Korea, April/May 2003. pp. 234-240. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, TimeSleuth: A Tool for Discovering Causal and Temporal Rules,
  14th IEEE International Conference On Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'2002), Washington DC, USA, November 2002. pp. 375-380.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Discovering Temporal Rules from Temporally Ordered Data,
  The Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2002), Manchester, UK, August 2002. pp. 25-30. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, RFCT: An Association-Based Causality Miner,
  The Fifteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2002) , Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2002. pp. 334-338. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Logical Decision Rules: Teaching C4.5 to Speak Prolog,
  The Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2000), Hong Kong, December 2000. pp. 85-90. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Learning With C4.5 in a Situation Calculus Domain,
  The Twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence (ES'2000), Cambridge, UK, December 2000. pp. 73-85. This paper is published by Springer-Verlag London.
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• Kamran Karimi, Julia A. Johnson and Howard J. Hamilton, A Proposal for Including Behavior in the Process of Object Similarity Assessment with Examples from Artificial Life,
  The Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'2000), Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 2000. pp. 603-607. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Finding Temporal Relations: Causal Bayesian Networks vs. C4.5,
  The Twelfth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'2000), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 2000. pp. 266-273. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi, Howard Hamilton and Scott Goodwin, Divide and (Iteratively) Conquer!,
  The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2000. pp. 595-601.
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• Kamran Karimi, The Iterative Multi-Agent Method for Solving Complex Search Problems,
  The Thirteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2000), Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 2000. pp. 369-378. This paper appears in the LNCS Series, © Springer-Verlag.
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• Kamran Karimi, Michael Schmitz and Mohsen Sharifi, DIPC: A Heterogeneous Distributed Programming System,
  The Third International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'97), Tehran, Iran, December 1997. pp. 126-130.
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• Kamran Karimi and Mohsen Sharifi, DIPC: A System Software Solution for Distributed Programming,
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications Conference (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June/July 1997. pp. 218-221.
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• Kamran Karimi and Mohsen Sharifi, DIPC: The Linux Way of Distributed Programming,
  The 4th International Linux Conference, Würzburg, Germany, May 1997.
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Professional Journal Papers:

• Mohsen Sharifi and Kamran Karimi, DIPC: The Linux Way of Distributed Programming, Linux Journal, Issue 57, January 1999. pp. 10-17.

Workshop Papers:

• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, From Temporal Rules to One Dimensional Rules,
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Causality and Causal Discovery, Technical Report CS-2004-02, Kamran Karimi (Ed.). Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2004. pp 30-44.
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Publicly Available Papers (unpublished):

• Kamran Karimi, A Brief Introduction to Temporality and Causality. http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2449
• Kamran Karimi, Neil G. Dickson, Firas Hamze, A Performance Comparison of CUDA and OpenCL. http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2581

Technical Reports:

• Kamran Karimi, Reversibility in Evolutionary Algorithms,
  Technical Report 06-015, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 2006.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, An Extension to the TIMERS Method,
  Technical Report CS-2005-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 2005.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Problem Solving with Limited Knowledge: Pruning Attributes in Classification Rules,
  Technical Report CS-2004-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 2004.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Discovering Causality and Acausality in Temporal Data,
  Technical Report CS-2003-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, February 2003.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Learning Causal Rules,
  Technical Report CS-2001-03, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 2001.
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• Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton, Temporal Rules and Temporal Decision trees: A C4.5 Approach,
  Technical Report CS-2001-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 2001.
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