Ed Knorr's Publications

Knorr, Edwin M. "Worked Examples, Cognitive Load, and Exam Assessments in a Senior Database Course", Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '20), Portland, Oregon, March 2020. PDF download from ACM Digital Library

Knorr, Edwin M. "Reforming a Database Course to Address Cognitive Load Using Worked Examples", Proceedings of the 24th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE '19), Calgary, AB, Canada, May, 2019. PDF download from ACM Digital Library

Knorr, Edwin M.; Dalla Riva, Guilio Valentino; and Vakarelov, Orlin. "Anatomy of a Data Science Course in Privacy, Ethics, and Security", Proceedings of the 23rd Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE '18), Victoria, BC, Canada, May, 2018. PDF Download from ACM Digital Library

Knorr, Edwin M. and Thompson, Christopher. "In-Lab Programming Tests in a Data Structures Course in C for Non-Specialists", Proceedings of the 48th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '17), Seattle, Washington, March 2017. PDF Download from ACM Digital Library

Knorr, Edwin M. and Thompson, Christopher. "Engagement and Sustainability in a Data Structures Course in C for Non-Specialists", Proceedings of the 21st Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE '16), Kamloops, BC, Canada, May, 2016. PDF Download from ACM Digital Library

Acton, Donald and Knorr, Edwin M. "Different Audiences but Similar Engagement Goals: In-Progress Work on Two Course Transformations", Proc. Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE), North Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2013. PDF download

Acton, Donald and Knorr, Edwin M. "A Plan for Transforming Systems and Database Courses in Computer Science", Poster Presentation, UBC CWSEI End-of-Year Event, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April, 2013. PDF download

Thompson, Chris and Knorr, Edwin M. "Introducing Pair Programming in Intermediate C to Non-Specialists", Poster Presentation, UBC CWSEI End-of-Year Event, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April, 2013. PDF download

Knorr, Edwin M. "Steps towards a Scientific Approach to a Database Course Transformation: Data Collection and Analysis", Proc. Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE), Kelowna, BC, Canada, May 7-8, 2010. PDF download

Knorr, Edwin M. "Course Management System (CMS) Evaluation and Strategy at UBC: A Viewpoint from the Faculty of Science", Proc. Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE), Calgary, Canada, May 5, 2006, 22 pages. PDF download

Kou, Weidong; Poon, Simpson; and Knorr, Edwin M. "Smart Cards and Applications", Chapter 5 in "Payment Technologies for E-Commerce", Weidong Kou (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Knorr, Edwin M. "Outliers and Data Mining: Finding Exceptions in Data", PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, April, 2002. PDF Document

Knorr, Edwin M.; Ng, Raymond T.; and Zamar, Ruben. "Robust Space Transformations for Distance-based Operations", Proc. SIGKDD, San Francisco, August 26-29, 2001, pp. 126-135. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M.; Ng, Raymond, T; and Tucakov, Vladimir. "Distance-Based Outliers: Algorithms and Applications", The VLDB Journal, 8(3), February, 2000, pp. 237-253. Compressed Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "Finding Intensional Knowledge of Distance-Based Outliers", Proc. VLDB, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 7-10, 1999, pp. 211-222. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets", Proc. VLDB, New York, August 24-27, 1998, pp. 392-403. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "A Unified Approach for Mining Outliers", Proceedings of the 7th CASCON Conference, Toronto, November 10-13, 1997, pp. 236-248. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "A Unified Notion of Outliers: Properties and Computation", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Newport Beach, CA, August 14-17, 1997, AAAI Press, pp. 219-222. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M.; Ng, Raymond T.; and Shilvock, David L. "Finding Boundary Shape Matching Relationships in Spatial Data", Advances in Spatial Databases, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Spatial Databases, Berlin, Germany, July 15-18, 1997, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1262, pp. 29-46. Postscript, compressed

Knorr, Edwin M. "On Digital Money and Card Technologies", UBC Technical Report 97-02, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, January 20, 1997. Postscript or just the ASCII Abstract

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "Finding Aggregate Proximity Relationships and Commonalities in Spatial Data Mining", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 6, December, 1996, pp. 884-897. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M.; Ng, Raymond T.; and Shilvock, David L. "Performing Boundary Shape Matching in Spatial Data", Proceedings of the 6th CASCON Conference, Toronto, November 12-14, 1996, pp. 115-122. Postscript

Knorr, Edwin M. and Ng, Raymond T. "Extraction of Spatial Proximity Patterns by Concept Generalization", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Portland, OR, August 2-4, 1996, AAAI Press, pp. 347-350. Postscript