Relevant Publications

  1. M. Woo, N. Prabhu and A. Ghafoor, “Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi­media Services in a Mobile Communication Environment,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Mobile Computing Networks, Vol. 13, No. 5, June 1995, pp. 913-922.
  2. S. Baqai, M. Woo and A. Ghafoor, “Network Resource Management for Enter­prise-wide Network to Support Multimedia Service,” IEEE Communications, Vol. 34, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 78-85.
  3. S. Baqai, M.F. Khan, S. Seiichi, M. Woo and A. Ghafoor, “Quality-based Evaluation of Multimedia Synchronization Protocols for Distributed Multimedia In­formation Systems,” IEEE Journal on the Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 14, No. 7, September 1996, pp. 1388-1403.
  4. Z. Ali and A. Ghafoor, “Synchronized Delivery of Multimedia Information over ATM Networks,” Communications of the ACM. Vol. 43, No. 11es, November 2000, pp. 239-248.
  5. H. Fahmi, W. G. Aref, M. Latif, B. Shafiq, A. Ghafoor, P. Liu and L. Hsu, "Distributed web-based framework for real-time multimedia object communication," International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 16 no. 2, March 2001.
  6. H. Fahmi, M. Latif, S. Sedigh-Ali, A. Ghafoor, P. Liu, and L.H. Hsu, "Proxy Servers for Scalable Interactive Video Support," IEEE Computer, Vol. 34, No. 9, September 2001, pp. 54-60.
  7. B. Shafiq, H. Fahmi, S. Baqai, A. Khokhar and A. Ghafoor, “Wireless Network Resource Management for Web-Based Multimedia Document Services’, IEEE Communication Magazine, Vo. 41, No. 3, March 2003, pp:138-145.
  8. A. Bashandy, E. K. Chong, and A. Ghafoor, “Generalized Quality of Service Routing Protocol Using Intelligent Resource Allocation Scheme" IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Intelligent Services and Applications in Next Generation Networks, Vol. 23, No. 2, February 2005, pp: 450-463.
  9. Sheikh, W.; Shafiq, B.; Paul, R.A.; Ghafoor, A, “Provision of multimedia services in a mobile ad hoc network”, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, Oct. 2003, pages:87 – 93
  10. W. Sheikh, and A. Ghafoor, “Quality-of-Service Routing in Heterogeneous Networks with Optimal Buffer and Bandwidth Allocation,” Proceedings of the IEEE 42nd Annual International Conference on Communications, England, May 2007.pp: 480-485.
  11. W. Sheikh, A. Bashandy and A. Ghafoor, “A Combined Approach for QoS based Multicast Routing and Resource Allocation,” Proceedings of the IEEE 40th Annual International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
  12. A. Ghafoor, “Distributed Multimedia Information Systems: An End-to-End Perspective,” Jour. of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2007, pp: 31-56.
  13. J. Joshi, W. Aref, A. Ghafoor, and E. Spafford, “Security Models for the Web-based Applications,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 38-44.
  14. J. Joshi, A. Ghafoor, W. Aref, and E. Spafford, “ Digital Government Security Infrastructure Design Challenges,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 34, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 66-72
  15. R. Bhatti, J. B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino, and A. Ghafoor, “XML-based RBAC Policy Specification for Secure Web-Services,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 37, No. 4, April 2004, pp: 41-49
  16. R. Bhatti, E. Bertino and A. Ghafoor, “XFEDERATE: A Policy Engineering Framework for Federated Access Management", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 5, May 2006, pp: 330-346
  17. R. Bhatti, B. Shafiq, M. Shehab, and A. Ghafoor, “Distributed Access Management in Multimedia  IDCs,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 38, No. 9, September 2005, pp: 60-69.
  18. Mohamed Shehab, Kamal Bhattacharya, and Arif Ghafoor, “Web Services Discovery in Secure Collaboration Environments,” ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, November 2007, pp: 5.2 – 5.22.
  19. Rafae Bhatti, Arjmand Samuel, Mohammad Y. Eltabakh, Haseeb Amjad, Arif Ghafoor, “ Engineering a Policy-Based System for Federated Healthcare Databases”, IEEE Transactions of Data and Knowledge Engineering , Volume 19, Number 9, pp1288-1304, September 2007
  20. R. Bhatti, J. B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino, and A. Ghafoor, “X-GTRBAC: An XML-based Policy Specification Framework and Architecture for Enterprise-Wide Access Control,” ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol. 8 No. 2, May 2005, Page(s):  187-227.
  21. R. Bhatti, E. Bertino, A. Ghafoor, “An Integrated Approach to Federated Identity and Privilege Management in Open Systems,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2007, pp: 81-87.
  22. A. Samuel, A. Ghafoor, and E. Bertino, “Context-Aware Adaptation of Access Control Policies,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12, No. 1, January/February 2008, pp:51-54.
  23. R. Bhatti, E. Bertino, A. Ghafoor, “A Trust-based Context-Aware Access Control Model for Web Services,” International Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Special Issue on Web Services, Vol. 18, No. 1, July 2005, pp: 83-105
  24. R. Bhatti, B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino and A. Ghafoor, "Access Control in Dynamic XML-Based Web Services with X-RBAC," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, June 2003, Las Vegas, NV, pp:243-249
  25. R. Bhatti, E. Bertino, and A. Ghafoor, “A Trust-based Context-Aware Access Control Model for Web Services, “ in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS04), San Diego, CA, July 2004
  26. J. B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino, U. Latif, and A. Ghafoor, “A Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2005, pp: 4-23.
  27. J. B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino, and A. Ghafoor, “Analysis of Expressiveness and Design Issues for a Temporal Role Based Access Control Model" IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Securing Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, April-June 2005, Page(s): 157-175.
  28. B. Shafiq, J. B. D. Joshi, E. Bertino, and A. Ghafoor,” Secure Interoperation in a Multidomain Environment Employing RBAC Policies,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 17, No. 11, November 2005, Page(s): 1557-1577.
  29. M. Shehab, A. Ghafoor, and E. Bertino, “Secure Collaboration in a Mediator-Free Distributed Environment" IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Oct. 2008, Volume: 19 , No. 10, pp: 1338-1351
  30. B. Shafiq, A. Masood, J. Joshi and A. Ghafoor, “A Role-Based Access Control Policy Verification Framework for Real-Time Systems,” in the Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Sedona, AZ, February 2005, pp: 13-20
  31. Arjmand Samuel, Shahab Baqai, Arif Ghafoor, “XML-Based Policy Engineering Framework for Heterogeneous Network Management,” 10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2007, Sapporo, Japan, October 10-12, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4773 Springer 2007, pp: 244-253
  32. A. Masood, A. Mathur and A. Ghafoor, “Conformance Testing of Temporal Role Based Access Control Systems,’’ accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (on-line publication, July 2008)
  33. A. Masood, R. Bhatti, A. Ghafoor, A. Mathur, "Scalable and Effective Test Generation for Role Based Access Control Systems" accepted to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (on-line publication May 2009)
  34. W. Ahmed, S. Leavesley, B. Rajwa, M. Ayyaz, A. Ghafoor, and J. P. Robinsom, “State-of-the-art in Information Extraction and Quantitative Analysis for MultiModality Biomedical Imaging” Proceedings of the IEEE (Special Issue on Multimodality Biomolecular Imaging), Vol. 96, No. 3, March 2008, pp: 512-531.
  35. W. Ahmed, D. Lenz, J. Liu, J. P. Robinson, and A. Ghafoor “XML-based Data Model and Architecture for a Knowledge-based Grid-enabled Problem Solving Environment for High-throughput Biological Imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology for Bioengineering, March 2008, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp: 226- 240
  36. Raymond Paul, I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani, Jing Dong, Wei-Tek Tsai, Krishna Kavi, Arif Ghafoor, Jaideep SrivastavaAn, “Ontology-Based Integrated Assessment Framework for High-Assurance Systems”, The IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008
  37. S. Sedigh-Ali, A. Ghafoor, and R.A. Paul, "Software Engineering Metrics for COTS-Based Systems," IEEE Computer, Vol. 34, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 44-50.

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