Books

  1. “Multimedia Document System in Perspectives,” Edited by P. Liu and A. Ghafoor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
  2. “Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing,” by S-C Chen, R.L. Kashyap, and A. Ghafoor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Book Chapters

  1. Ghafoor and P.B. Berra, “Multimedia Database Systems,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Advanced Database Systems), edited by B. Bhargava and N. Adams, Vol. 759, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISBN 0-387-57507-3, 1993, pp. 397-411.
  2. T.D.C. Little and A. Ghafoor, “Interval-Based Temporal Models for Time-Dependent Multimedia Data,” in the IEEE Tutorial: Guided Tour of Multimedia Systems and Applications, edited by B. Furht and M. Milenkovic, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, March 1995. (Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1993, pp. 551-563).
  3. Ghafoor, “Multimedia Database Management: Perspectives and Challenges,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Advances in Databases), edited by C. Goble and J. Kean, Vol. 940, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISBN 3-540-60100-7, July 1995, pp. 12-23.
  4. Khokar, M. Shaaban and A. Ghafoor, “An Application of Network Heterogeneous Computing in Multimedia,” Heterogeneous Computing, edited by M. Eshghian, Artech House, Boston, MA, ISBN 0-89006-552-7, 1996, Chapter 10, pp. 335-354.
  5. W. Al-Khatib, M.F. Khan S. Dagtas and A. Ghafoor, “Multimedia Information System,” Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, edited by John Webster, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY.
  6. J. B.D. Joshi, M-L Shyu, S-C Chen, W. Aref, and A. Ghafoor, “A Multimedia-Based Threat Management and Information Security Framework”, accepted for publication. Book edited by E. Ferrari and B. Thuraisingham, 2006.

Journal Articles

  1. T.D.C. Little and A. Ghafoor, “Synchronization and Storage Models for Multimedia Objects,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Multimedia Communication, Vol. 8, No. 3, April 1990, pp. 413-427.
  2. P.B. Berra, C.Y.R. Chen, A. Ghafoor, C.C. Lin, T.D.C. Little and D. Shin, “Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Database Systems,” Computer Communication, Special Issue on Multimedia Communication, Vol. 13, No. 4, April 1990, pp. 217-231.
  3. T.D.C. Little and A. Ghafoor, “Interval-Based Conceptual Models for Time-Dependent Multimedia Data,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Multimedia Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1993, pp. 551-563.
  4. A. Ghafoor, “Multimedia Database Management Systems,” ACM Computing Surveys, Special Issue on Multimedia Symposium, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 592-598.
  5. Y.F. Day, M. Iino, A. Khan and A. Ghafoor, “Design and Development Issues for Multimedia Information Systems,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Special Issue on Multimedia, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1996, pp. 176-181.
  6. P.B. Berra and A. Ghafoor, Guest Editorial Note (2 Volumes): “Data and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engi-neering, Part I: Vol. 10, No. 6, November/December 1998, pp. 868-871; Part II: June/July 1999.
  7. P. Liu and A. Ghafoor, Guest Editorial Note: “Multimedia Document Systems in Per-spective,” Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, January 2000.
  8. Y.F. Day, S. Dagtas, A. Khokhar, and A. Ghafoor, “A Multi-Level Abstraction and Modeling in Video Database,” ACM Journal on Multimedia Systems, Vol. 7, No. 5, September 1999, pp. 409-423.
  9. W. Al-Khatib, F. Day, A. Ghafoor and P.B. Berra, “Semantic Modeling and Knowledge Representation in Multimedia Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January/February 1999, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 64-80.
  10. S. Dagtas, W. Al-Khatib, A. Ghafoor, and R. L. Kashyap, “Models for Motion-based Video Indexing and Retrieval,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Image Processing for Digital Libraries. Vol. 1, No. 9, January 2000., pp88-101.
  11. A. Khokhar, and A. Ghafoor, “Guest Editorial Note on Multimedia Document Management Systems,” ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, May 2004.
  12. A. Ghafoor, “Distributed Multimedia Information Systems: An End-to-End Perspective,” Jour. of Multimedia Tools and Applications, May 2007.
  13. A. Ghafoor, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhou and M. Lew, “Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Machine Learning Approaches to Multimedia Information Retrieval,” to appear in the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.
  14. W.A. Ahmed, M. N. Ayyaz, B. Rajwa, F. Khan, A. Ghafoor, and J. P. Robinson, “Semantic Analysis of Biological Imaging Data: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Journal on Semantic Computing, Vol 1, No. 1 March 2007, pp: 67-85
  15. W.A. 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,” accepted to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. (Download copy of paper)
  16. W.A. Ahmed, A. Ghafoor, and J.P. Robinson, “Knowledge Extraction for High-Throughput Biological Imaging,” IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 2007, pp: 52-62.

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