Publikationer/Publications

My publications (together with links to their abstracts) are orded after the year of print. Many of the publications can be downloaded (pdf-format), while others are copyrighted and therefore not available electronically.

Contact me (Lena.Kallin.Westin@cs.umu.se) if you have questions.

1. J. Börstler, H.B. Christensen, J. Bennedsen, M. Nordström, L. Kallin Westin, J.E Moström, M.E. Caspersen. Evaluating OO Example Programs for CS1, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Madrid, Spain, Jun, to appear.
2. J. Börstler, M. Nordström, L. Kallin Westin, J.-E. Moström, J. Eliasson: Transitioning to OOP—A Never Ending Story. In Reflections on the Teaching of Programming, J. Bennedsen, M.E. Caspersen, M. Kölling (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4821, Springer, 86-106, 2008.
3. P. Eklund och  L. Kallin Westin, Preprocessing perceptrons and multivariate reference values, In Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications, P. Berka, J. Rauch, D. A. Zighed (editors)  IGI Global Inc, in print.
4. J.  Börstler, M. Nordström, L. Kallin Westin, J. E. Moström, H. B. Christensen, J. Bennedsen, An Evaluation Instrument for Object-Oriented Example Programs for Novices, UMINF 08.XX, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, in print
5. J. Eliasson, L. Kallin Westin, and M. Nordström, Investigating students' confidence in programming and problem solving, 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE2006), Oct. 2006 San Diego, CA, USA, M4E-22--M4E27, 2006.
6. L. Kallin Westin, and M. Nordström, SI - Small Scale Advantages, UMINF 06.23, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2006
7. J. Eliasson, L. Kallin Westin, and M. Nordström, Investigating students' change of confidence during CS1 - four case studies, UMINF 06.13, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2006
8. L. Kallin Westin, och M. Nordström, Teaching OO Concepts - A new Approach, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE2004), Savannah, GA, F3C-6--F3C-11, 2004.
9. L. Kallin Westin, Preprocessing perceptrons, Ph. D. Thesis, UMINF 04.10, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2004
   
10. L. Kallin Westin, Missing data and the preprocessing perceptron, UMINF-04.02, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2004.
11. L. Kallin Westin, trainGPP - Users' manual, UMINF-04.01, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2004.
12. P. Eklund, L. Kallin Westin, Preprocessing perceptrons and multivariate reference values, submitted, 2003.
13. Kallin Westin, Lena och Nordström Marie, Supplemental Instruction (SI) - Applied on the course Object-Oriented Programming Methodology, UMINF 03.01., Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2003. (pdf)
14. Lena Kallin Westin och Marie Nordström, Två projekt som hjälper elever bli studenter, In En öppen högskola - vilka kunskaper och vilket lärande, Proceedings of Universitetspedagogisk konferens in Umeå, February 19-20, pp 34-47, 2003.
15. L. Kallin Westin, Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis - Evaluating discriminance effects among decision support systems UMINF-01.18, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2001.
16. P. Eklund, L. Kallin Westin, Preprocessing for informative, efficient and small networks, In proceedings from Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, pages 1776-1780, 2001.
17. L. Kallin Westin, Analysing the diagnostic performance of the preprocessing perceptron using ROC curves, In proceedings from Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications, June 19-22, Wales, pages 182-188, 2001.
18. Lena Kallin Westin och Marie Nordström, Förändrade villkor i undervisningen - Vad ska vi kunna det här för - kommer det på tentan?, UMINF-01.24., Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 2001. (swedish, pdf). This paper was also presented att Högskoleverkets kvalitetskonferens in Norrköping, September 25-27, 2001.
19. Lena Kallin Westin och Lena Palmquist (editors), Från siffror till surfning - könsperspektiv på informationsteknik, Studentlitteratur, 2001.
20. Lena Kallin Westin och Marie Nordström, Vad ska vi kunna det här för - kommer det på tentan?, Lärarens liv - Vision och verklighet, Proceedings of Universitetspedagogisk konferens in Umeå, February 15-16, pp 141-156, 2001
21. P. Eklund, L. Kallin, G. Sélen. Computational Intelligence for medical Information Analysis and refinement. In H. N. Teodorescu, A. Kandel and L. C. Jain, editors, Soft Computing in Human-Related Sciences, CRC Press, 1999.
22. L. Kallin, Studenters åsikter om studiemiljön vid institutionen för datavetenskap, UMINF-99.05, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 1999. (swedish,(pdf)).
23. L. Kallin, Artificiell intelligens sedd ur ett könsperspektiv, In L. Kallin and L. Palmquist, editors, Från siffror till surfning - könsperspektiv på informationsteknik, pages 37-68, UMINF-99.04, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 1999. (swedish, pdf)
24. L. Kallin, R. Räty, G. Selén, K. Spencer, A comparison of numerical risk computational techniques in screening for Down's syndrome, In P. Gallinari och F. Fogelman Soulie, editors, Industrial Applications of Neural networks, pages 425-432, World Scientific, 1998
25. L. Kallin P. Eklund. The Generalised Perceptron is a Fuzzy Neuron and a Fuzzy Rule, In D. Mancini, M. Squillante, and A. Ventre, editors, New trends on Fuzzy Systems, World Scientific, pages 253-265, 1998.
26. L. Kallin. Applied Neural Logic. Licentiate thesis, UMINF 98.11, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 1998.
27. J. Bohlin, P. Eklund (Ed.), T. Hellström, L. Kallin, T. Riissanen, and J. Zhou. Lecture Notes in Computational Intelligence, 2ed, Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, January, 1998. (pdf)
28. J. Bohlin, P. Eklund (Ed.), M. Fogström, L. Kallin, T. Riissanen, H. Virtanen and J. Zhou. Lecture Notes in Computational Intelligence, Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, January, 1997.
29. L. Kallin, M. Nordström, L. Palmquist, Att utbilda tjejer i datavetenskap - erfarenheter och reflexioner, P-O. Ågren editor, IT i universitetsundervisningen - Erfarenheter från Datavetenskap, Informatik och Pedagogik, Pedagogiskt fortbildningsmaterial för universitetslärare 1997:1, pages 52-70, 1997. (swedish, pdf)
30. L. Kallin, M. Nordström, L. Palmquist, Att utbilda tjejer i datavetenskap - erfarenheter och reflexioner, Konferensrapport, Universitetspedagogisk konferens i Umeå 20-21 februari 1997, pages 308-321, 1997. (Also published as UMINF-97.13) (swedish, pdf)
31. L. Anttila, P. Eklund, L. Kallin, P. Koskinen, T.-A. Penttilä, The Generalised Preprocessing Perceptron for Medical Data Analysis: A Case Study for the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, In R. Trappl, editor Cybernetics and Systems'96 - Proceedings of the 13th European Meeting on Cybernetics ans Systems Research, vol 1, pages 597-602, 1996.
32. L. Anttila, P. Eklund, L. Kallin, P. Koskinen, T.-A. Penttilä, The Generalised Preprocessing Perceptron for Medical Data Analysis: A Case Study for the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, UMINF-96.11, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 1996. (pdf)
33. L. Kallin, R. Räty, G. Selén, K. Spencer, A comparison of numerical risk computational techniques in screening for Down's syndrome,UMINF-95.24, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, 1995.
34. L. Kallin, Vad kvinnliga studenter vid institutionen för Datavetenskap tycker och tänker om sin utbildning och sitt arbete., Unpublished work, 1995. (swedish, html)