PUBLICATIONS – since 2007
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS
Sampalli, Tara, Michael Shepherd, Jack Duffy. Clinical vocabulary as a boundary object in
multidisciplinary care management of multiple chemical sensitivity, a complex and
chronic condition. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2011: 4 1-12. 30 March
2011,
Alhenshiri, Anwar, Brooks, Stephen, Shepherd, Michael and Carolyn Watters. Augmenting the
Perception of Web Search Results. Journal of Information Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 18-30,
January 2011.
Sampalli, Tara, Michael Shepherd, Jack Duffy and Roy Fox. An Evaluation of SNOMED CT® in
the domain of complex chronic conditions, Journal of Integrated Care. Volume 10: Jan – Mar
2010. http://www.ijic.org/index.php/ijic
Bogdan Superceanu, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Chris Skedgel, Michael Shepherd and Ingrid
Sketris. The Rate of Prescribing Gastrointestinal Prophylaxis with either a Proton Pump inhibitor or a
H2-receptor Antagonist in Nova Scotia Seniors Starting Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug
Therapy. The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology. Volume 24 Issue 8: 481-488. August 2010.
Abidi, Samina and Michael Shepherd. 2008. A Clinical Practice Guideline-based Ontology Driven
Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up. The Journal on Information
Technology in Healthcare 2008; 6(1): 23–32
Rekha Gaikwad, Ingrid Sketris, Michael Shepherd and Jack Duffy. 2007. Evaluation of accuracy of
drug interaction alerts triggered by two electronic medical record systems in primary healthcare.
Health Informatics Journal. Vol 13, No, 3, pp. 163–177.
Kellar, M., Watters, C. and M. Shepherd. 2007. A Field Study Characterizing Web-Based
Information Seeking Tasks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology. Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 999-1018.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Abidi, S., Shepherd, M. and Jafna Cox. Computerizing Comorbid Clinical Guidelines Using
OWL Ontology: A Decision Support System for Cardiac Diseases. 2nd Advances in Health
Informatics Conference, 25-27 April 2012, Toronto, Canada.
Sampalli, T., Shepherd, M. and J. Duffy. Enabling Interoperability Through An Ontology
Approach In The Heterogeneous Domains Of Complex Chronic Conditions. HealthINF 2012. 14 February 2012. Vilamoura, Portugal.
Abidi, S., Cox, J., Abidi, SSR and M. Shepherd. Using OWL Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines
Based Comorbid Decision Support. 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 47 January 2012. Hawaii.
Alhenshiri, A., Waters, C. and M. Shepherd. Building Support for Web Information Gathering
Tasks. 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2012. Hawaii.
Alhenshiri, A., Shepherd, M., and Carolyn Watters. Improving How Users Organize Web
Information For Gathering Tasks. WEBIST 2011. 6-9 May 2011. Noordwijkerhout, The
Netherlands.
Mason, J., Shepherd, M., Duffy, J., and Vlado Kesˇelj. Classifying Web Pages By Genre:
Dealing with Unbalanced Distributions, Multiple Labels, and Noise. WEBIST 2011. 6-9 May
2011. Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Alhenshiri. A., Shepherd, M. and C. Watters. User Behaviour during Web Search as Part of
Information Gathering. 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January
2011. Hawaii
Iqbal, A.M., Shepherd, M. and S.S.R. Abidi. Michael Shepherd and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi An
Ontology-based Electronic Medical Record for Chronic Disease Management, 44th
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2011. Hawaii
Sampalli, T., Shepherd, M. and J. Duffy. A Patient Profile Ontology in the
Heterogeneous Domain of Complex and Chronic Health Conditions, 44th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2011. Hawaii
Alhenshiri, A., Shepherd, M., Watters, C. and M. Bliemel. Information Gathering within
Websites: Visualized Links for Navigation (VLN). 10th International Conference on Intelligent
Systems Design and Applications. 29 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2010. Cairo, Egypt.
Alhenshiri, A., Watters, C., and M. Shepherd. Web Information Gathering Tasks: A Framework
and Research Agenda. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information
Retrieval. 25-28 October 2010. Valencia, Spain.
Alhenshiri, A., Watters, C., Shepherd, M., and S. Brooks. Augmenting the Visual Presentation
of Web Search Results. Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management
(ICDIM 2010). 5-8 July 2010. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada.
Mason, J., Shepherd, M., and J. Duffy. Classifying Web Pages by Genre: An n-gram Based
Approach. The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence. 15-18 September 2009.
Milan, Italy.
Mason, J., Shepherd, M., and J. Duffy. Classifying Web Pages by Genre: A Distance Function
Approach. WEBIST 2009. Lisboa, Portugal. 23-26 March 2009.
Sampalli, T., Shepherd, M. and R. Fox. Boundary objects in the multidisciplinary care
management of chronic conditions: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Information Technology and
Communications in Health, Victoria, Canada, 19-22 February 2009.
Mason, J., Shepherd, M. and J. Duffy. An N-gram Based Approach to Automatically Identifying
Web Page Genre. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 5-8 January
2009. Accepted 15 September 2008.
Patterson, K., Watters, C. and M. Shepherd. Document Retrieval using Proximity-based Phrase
Searching. 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 7-10 January 2008.
Dong, L., Watters, C., Duffy, J. and M. Shepherd. An Examination of Genre Attributes for Web
Page Classification, 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 7-10
January 2008
Abidi, R.R., Abidi, Samina and M. Shepherd. Ontology-based Modeling of Clinical Practice
Guidelines: A Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up Interventions at
Primary Care Settings. MEDINFO. 20-24 August 2007. Brisbane.
Marath, S., Shepherd, M., van Zanten, S., Duffy, J. and C. Watters. Evaluation of Health
Information on the Web. International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries. 21-23
February 2007. Bangalore, India.
Abidi, Samina and M. Shepherd. A CPG-Based Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support
System for Breast Cancer Follow-up. Information Technology and Communications in Health
(ITCH). 15-18 February 2007. Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Sharma, A., Shepherd, M. and H. Chen. Enabling the Semantic Reasoning in the Health Level 7
Clinical Document Using the Web Ontology Language. Information Technology and
Communications in Health (ITCH). 16-18 February 2007, Victoria, BC.