Published works:

Books and Volumes Edited

• Robert Fraser, ed. Proceedings of the 5th Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing and Engineering (CSCBCE), Waterloo, ON, Canada, May 20-22, 2010. [PDF] [via CSCBCE]

Journal Papers

• Francisco Claude, Gautam K. Das, Reza Dorrigiv, Stephane Durocher, Robert Fraser, Alejandro López-Ortiz, Bradford G. Nickerson and Alejandro Salinger. An Improved Line-Separable Algorithm for Discrete Unit Disk Cover. Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (DMAA), 2(1), pp. 77-87, 2010. [Preprint PDF] Electronic version of an article published [DOI No: 10.1142/S1793830910000486] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [via DMAA] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser and Selim G. Akl. Accelerating machines: A review. International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), 23(1), pp. 81-104, 2008. [Preprint PDF] [via informaworld (Taylor & Francis)] [Google Scholar]

Conference Papers

• Gautam K. Das, Robert Fraser, Alejandro López-Ortiz and Bradford G. Nickerson. On the Discrete Unit Disk Cover Problem. Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), LNCS 6552/2011, pp. 146-157, 2011. [PDF] [via Springer] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser and Patrick K. Nicholson. Hausdorff Core of a One Reflex Vertex Polygon. Proceedings of the 22nd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), pp. 183-186, 2010. [PDF] [via CCCG] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser. Online Pattern Matching in Sparse Matrices and Contact Maps. Proceedings of the Fifth Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing and Engineering (CSCBCE), pp. 76-80, 2010. [PDF] [via CSCBCE]
• Francisco Claude, Reza Dorrigiv, Stephane Durocher, Robert Fraser, Alejandro López-Ortiz and Alejandro Salinger. Practical Discrete Unit Disk Cover Using an Exact Line-Separable Algorithm. Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), LNCS 5878, pp. 45-54, 2009. [Preprint PDF] [via Springer] [Google Scholar]
• Reza Dorrigiv, Stephane Durocher, Arash Farzan, Robert Fraser, Alejandro López-Ortiz, J. Ian Munro, Alejandro Salinger and Matthew Skala. Finding a Hausdorff Core of a Polygon: On Convex Polygon Containment with Bounded Hausdorff Distance. Proceedings of the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS), LNCS 5664, pp. 218-229, 2009. [Preprint PDF] [via Springer] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser. Protein Planes. Proceedings of the Second Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC), London, ON, 2007. [Preprint PDF]
• Robert Fraser and Janice Glasgow. A Demonstration of Clustering in Protein Contact Maps for alpha Helix Pairs. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA), Warsaw, LNCS 4431, pp. 758-766, 2007. [Preprint PDF] [via Springer] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser and Janice Glasgow. Introducing Hippy: A visualization tool for understanding the alpha-helix pair interface. Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP), pp. 571-576, Las Vegas NV, 2006. [Preprint PDF] [Google Scholar]
• Robert Fraser, James Stewart and Janice Glasgow. Automated determination of interhelical angles for protein alpha helices from coordinate data. Proceedings of the 2006 First Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC), Kingston ON, 2006. [PDF] [Google Scholar]
• Maryam Mahdaviani, Nando de Freitas, Bob Fraser, and Firas Hamze. Fast computational methods for visually guided robots. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 138-143, Barcelona, 2005. [PDF] [via IEEE] [Google Scholar]

Posters

• Robert Fraser and Alejandro López-Ortiz. Two-dimensional string matching techniques for protein contact maps. 16th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, 2008.
• Robert Fraser, Alejandro Salinger, Reza Dorrigiv, Joseph Horton and Alejandro López-Ortiz. Defensive Strategies for a Soccer Goalkeeper with a Single Adversary. 18th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), 2008.
• Robert Fraser and Janice Glasgow. Determination of Packing of alpha-Helix Pairs from Protein Contact Maps. 2008 Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC).
• Robert Fraser, Mireille Gomes and Janice Glasgow. The packing attribute of alpha helices as an advisor to evaluate proposed protein structures. In the 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) / 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) (ISMB/ECCB), Poster: E042, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
• Robert Fraser and Janice Glasgow. Prediction of alpha helix packing from contact maps. 16th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Victoria BC, 2006.
• Alan Ableson, Jim Davies, Robert Fraser, Tony Kuo, Emily Lam, Steve Sedfawi, Stephen Taylor, Eduardo Zuviria and Janice Glasgow. Protein structure from contact maps: a hierarchical approach. Presented at:
  
  • 2006 First Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC), Kingston ON, 2006.
  • 13th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Detroit, 2005.
  • 15th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Quebec City, 2005.

Others

• Robert Fraser. Collaboration, Collusion and Plagiarism in Computer Science. Univeristy Teaching Research Project, University of Waterloo, 2011.[PDF]
• Robert Fraser. A Tale of Two Helices: A study of alpha helix pair conformations in three-dimensional space. Master's thesis, Queen's University, 2006.[PDF]
• Robert Fraser and Selim G. Akl. Accelerating Machines. Queen's University Technical Report No. 2006-510, Kingston ON, 2006.[PDF]
• Robert Fraser. TIME Letters, TIME, 167(19), May 8, 2006. [HTML] Also the original, longer, but much more clear letter: [HTML]
• Robert Fraser. Determination of heavy metal contamination in waters from a landfill site in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. Undergraduate thesis, Carleton University, 1999.