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  Bipin C. DESAI

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  Selected refereed journals publications


  • R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, P. S. Yu, and B. C. Desai, ``Correlated network data publication via differential privacy'', The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Vol. 23-4, 653-676, 2014

  • R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, P. S. Yu, and B. C. Desai, ``Correlated network data publication via differential privacy'', The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Vol. 23-4, 653-676, 2014

  • R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, N. Mohammed, B. C. Desai, and K. Wang, ``Privacy-preserving trajectory data publishing by local suppression'', Information Sciences (INS): Special Issue on Data Mining for Information Security, 231: 83-97, May 2013. Elsevier.

  • M. M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B. C. Desai, ``An Integrated Content - Based Retrieval and Expert Fusion - Based Decision Support System for Automated Melanoma Recognition of Dermoscopic Images'', Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 479-486, 2010.

  • M. M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B. C. Desai, ``A Unified Image Retrieval Framework on Local Visual and Semantic Concept - Based Feature Spaces'', Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier), vol. 20, pp. 450 - 462, 2009

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai, and P. Bhattacharya, ``Medical Image Retrieval with Probabilistic Multi-Class Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Adaptive Similarity Fusion'', Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 83-158, 2008

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai, and P. Bhattacharya, ``Medical Image retrieval with probabilistic multi-class support vector machine classifiers and adaptive similarity fusion'', Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics(CMIG), vol. 32, pp. 95-108, 2008.

  • M. M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B. C. Desai, ``A Framework for Medical Image Retrieval using Machine Learning \& Statistical Similarity Matching Techniques with Relevance Feedback'', IEEE Trans. On Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59-69, 2007.

  • Niculae Stratica, Leila Kosseim and Bipin C. Desai (2005). ``Using semantic templates for a natural language interface to the CINDI virtual library'', Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal. Volume 55, Issue 1, October 2005, p. 4-19. Elsevier.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Rajabihan Shayan Nader, R. Shinghal, Youquan Zhou, ``CINDI: A System for Cataloging Searching and Annotating Documents in Digital Libraries''. Library-trend, Vol. 48-1, Summer 1999.

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Supporting Discovery in Virtual Libraries'', Journal of the American Society of Information Science(JASIS), 48-3, 1997, pp. 190-204.

  • P. G. Chander, R. Shinghal, Bipin C. Desai, T. Radhakrishnan, ``An Expert System to Aid Cataloging and Searching Electronic Documents'', Expert Systems and Applications, 12(4), 1997, pp. 405-416.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Boutros S. Boutros, ``A Prudent Commit Protocol for Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management System'', Information and Software Technology, 38, 1996, pp. 581-599.

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Report of the Navigation Issues Workshop'', Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27-2, November 1994, pp. 332-333.

  • Robert Caillau, Bipin C. Desai, ``Report of the Priorities Workshop'', Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27-2, November 1994, pp. 334-336.

  • B.C. Desai, R. Pollock, ``MDAS: A heterogeneous distributed database management system'', Information and Software Technology, 34(1):28-41, January 1992.

  • B.C. Desai, P. Goyal and F. Sadri, ``Composite B-Tree: An Access Aid for Query Processing and Integrity Enforcement'', The Computer Journal (The British Computer Society), 35:A215-A225, 1992.

  • B.C. Desai and R. Pollock, ``MDAS: Multiple Schema `Integration Approach'', IEEE Data Engineering, 13(2):16-21, June 1990, Invited paper.

  • B.C. Desai, ``Performance of a Composite Attribute and Join Index'', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 15(2):142-152, February 1989.

  • B.C. Desai and R. Pollock and P.J. Vincent, ``A Natural Language Interface to a Multiple Databased Office Information System'', SIGOIS Bulletin, 9(4):19-33, October 1988.

  • B.C. Desai, P. Goyal and F. Sadri, ``Composite Index in DDBMS'', Journal of the Systems and Software, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., 8(2):105-119, 1988.

  • B.C. Desai, P. Goyal and F. Sadri, ``Fact Structure and its Application to Updates in Relational Databases'', Information Systems, 12(2):215-221, 1987.

  • B.C. Desai, P. Goyal and F. Sadri, ``Non-First Normal Form Universal Relations: An Application to Information Retrieval Systems'', Information Systems, 12(1):49-55, 1987.

  Selected refereed publications in conference proceedings

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``The state of Data'', Proc. of the 18th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, Eds. Ana Almeida et. al, Porto, Portugal, July 2014, ACM

  • Ming Lu, Zhao Kunsheng, Bipin C. Desai ``ConfSys: A Kaizen Conference Management System'', Proc of C3S2E'13, Porto, PT, July 2013, ACM

  • R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, B. C. Desai, and N. M. Sossou, ``Differentially private transit data publication: a case study on the Montreal transportation system'', In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 213-221, Beijing, China: ACM Press, August 2012.

  • R. Chen, N. Mohammed, B. C. M. Fung, B. C. Desai, and L. Xiong, ``Publishing set-valued data via differential privacy'', The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 4(11):1087-1098, August 2011. VLDB Endowment.

  • R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, and B. C. Desai, ``Differential private trajectory data publication'', CoRR, 2011.

  • Rui Chen , Alirio Perez , Krishma Dutta , Bipin C. Desai ``CINDI: A Digital Library for Academics'' Proc. of C3S2E-09 (Published by ACM and BytePress), Montreal, May 2009(also available form ACM Portal)

  • B. C. M. Fung, M. Cao, B. C. Desai, and H. Xu. ``Privacy protection for RFID data'' In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): Database Theory, Technology, and Applications (DTTA), pages 1528-1535, Honolulu, HI: ACM Press, March 2009.

  • Tongyuan Wang , Bipin C Desai ``Issues in Pattern Mining and their Resolutions'' Proc. of C3S2E-09 (Published by ACM and BytePress), Montreal, May 2009(also available form ACM Portal)

  • Min Huang , Yuwei Feng , Bipin C.Desai ``CONFSYS2: An Improved Web-based Multi-Conference Management System'', Proc. of C3S2E-09 (Published by ACM and BytePress), Montreal, May 2009(also available form ACM Portal)

  • Rahman, M. M., Bhattacharya, P. and Desai, B. C. ``A Multiple Expert-based Melanoma Recognition System for Dermoscopic Images of Pigmented Skin Lesions'', 8th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2008), Athens, Greece, Oct. 8-10, 2008.

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``IDEAS, The pre-teen years'', Proc. of IDEAS08, Published by ACM and BytePress, Sept. 10-12, 2008, Coimbra, Portugal, (also available form ACM Portal)

  • Rui Chen, Bipin C. Desai, ``An enhanced web robot for the CINDI system'' Proc. of the 2008 C3S2E conference 2008, (Published by ACM and BytePress), Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 12 - 13, 2008, pp. 133-135,(also available form ACM Portal)

  • Tongyuan Wang, Bipin C. Desai, Huzhan Zheng, Yanjiang Qiao, ``Knowledge discovery in Chinese medicine'' Proc. of the 2008 C3S2E conference 2008, Published by ACM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 12 - 13, 2008,(also available form ACM Portal)

  • M. M. Rahman, Varun Sood, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya, ``Cross-Modal Interaction and Integration with Relevance Feedback for Medical Image Retrieval'', 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), Singapore, Jan 9-12, 2007, To appear in Proceedings of LNCS.

  • M. M. Rahman, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya, ``Visual Keyword-based Image Retrieval using Correlation-Enhanced Latent Semantic Indexing, Similarity Matching & Query Expansion in Inverted Index'', Tenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS06), Delhi, India, Dec. 11-14, 2006, To appear in the IEEE IDEAS'06 Proceedings.

  • M. M. Rahman, Varun Sood, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya, ``CINDI at ImageCLEF 2006: Image Retrieval & Annotation Tasks for the General Photographic and Medical Image Collections'', CLEF working notes , Alicante, Spain, Sep. 2006, To appear in Proceedings of LNCS.

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai and P. Bhattacharya, ``Image Retrieval with Machine Learning-Based Pre-filtering & Region-Based Similarity Matching'', International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong , August 20-24, 2006

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai and P. Bhattacharya, ``A Feature Level Fusion in Similarity Matching to Content-Based Image Retrieval'', Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion , Florence, Italy, 10-13 July, 2006

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai and P. Bhattacharya, ``Image Retrieval-Based Decision Support System for Dermatoscopic Images'', Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), June 22-23, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 285-290, 2006

  • Tao Wang, Bipin C. Desai, ``Extracting Document Semantics for Semantic Header'', 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, May 2006.

  • M. M. Rahman, B. C. Desai and P. Bhattacharya, ``Supervised Machine Learning based Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005'', 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Workshop on Cross Language Evaluation (CLEF), Vienna, AUSTRIA, Sept. 2005. Proceedings to appear in Springer Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS).

  • M. M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B.C. Desai, ``Probabilistic Similarity Measure in Image Databases with SVM-based Categorization & Relevance Feedback'', International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), Toronto, Canada, September 2005. Proceedings in LNCS 3656, pp. 601-608, 2005.

  • M. M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B. C. Desai, ``Statistical Similarity Measures in Image Retrieval Systems with Categorization & Block Based Partition'', IEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2005, In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society pp. 92- 97, 2005.

  • M.M. Rahman, P. Bhattacharya and B.C. Desai, ``Similarity Searching in Image Retrieval with Statistical Distance Measure and Supervised Learning'', International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR), Bath, UK, September 2005. Proceedings in LNCS 3686, pp. 315-324, 2005.

  • M. M. Rahman, Tongyuan Wang, Bipin C. Desai, ``Medical image retrieval and registration: towards computer assisted diagnostic approach'', IDEAS Workshop On Medical Information Systems : The Digital Hospital , IDEAS'04-DH, Beijing, China, September 1-3, 2004, In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society, pp. 78- 89, 2004

  • Niculae Stratica, Bipin C. Desai, ``Schema-Based Natural Language Semantic Mapping'', Springer-Verlag Gm ISSN: 0302-9743, Volume 3136 / 2004 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2004, Salford, UK, June 23-25, 2004.

  • Zhengwei Gu, Xin Jin, Bipin C. Desai ``CONFSYS: The CINDI Conference Support System'', Proceedings of IDEAS'03, Hong-Kong, 2003, IEEE.

  • Stella Budrean, Yanhong Li, Bipin C. Desai ``High Availability Solutions for Transactional Database Systems'', Proceedings of IDEAS'03, Hong Kong, 2003, pp78-89 , IEEE.

  • Niculae Stratica, Leila Kosseim, Bipin C. Desai, ``NLIDB Templates for Semantic Parsing'' Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 8th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, June 2003, Burg (Spreewald), Germany. LNI 29 GI 200 3, ISBN 3-88579-358-X, pp235-241

  • Niculae Stratica, Leila Kosseim, Bipin C. Desai, ``A Natural Language Processor for Querying CINDI'', SSGRR 2002, L'Aquila, Italy, July 2002.

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Search and Discovery on the Web'',SSGRR 2002, L'Aquila, Italy, July 2002.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Sami S. Haddad Abdelbaset Ali, ``Automatic Semantic Header Generator'',ISMIS2000, Springer-Verlag, Charlotte, NC, 2000 pp.444-452

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``EConsumer'', SSGRR 2000, L'Aquila, Italy, July 2000.

  • Bipin C. * Bipin C. Desai, Rajjan Shinghal, Nader Shyan, Youquan Zhou ``CINDI: A System for Cataloguing, Searching, and Annotating Electronic Documents in Digital Libraries``, ISMIS'00, Springer-Verlag, Charlotte, NC, Oct. 2000

  • Bipin C. Desai, Rajjan Shinghal, Nader Shyan, Youquan Zhou ``CINDI: A System for Cataloguing, Searching, and Annotating Electronic Documents in Digital Libraries``, ISMIS'99, Springer-Verlag, Warsaw, Poland, June 1999.

  • Barry Eaglestone, Bipin C. Desai, Robert Holton, Eric Gulatee, ``Temporal Database Support for Cooperative Creative Work'', IDEAS98, Cardiff, July '98, IEEE Press, pp. 266-227.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Khaled A. Jababo, ``An OODBMS Graphical Development Environment'', IDEAS97, Montréal, August '97, IEEE Press, pp. 33-42.

  • John Velissarios, Bipin C. Desai, ``A Pseudo One-Time-Pad-Based Security System'', 9th Annual Canadian Information Technology Security Symposium, Ottawa, May 12-16, 1996, pp.453-482, also available in CD-ROM from CSE, Ottawa, Ont.

  • Bipin C. Desai, R. Shinghal, ``Modelling Expert Search of Virtual/Digital Libraries'', ISMIS '96, Zakopane, Poland, June 1996. pp. 41-52.

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Indexing and Searching Virtual Libraries'', An invited refereed white paper prepared for the CIC-Forum on 'America in the Age of Information', in Compendium of Draft White Papers, Bethesda, MD, July, 1995, pp. 87-90

  • Bipin C. Desai, Stan Swiercz, ``WebJournal: Visualization of a Web Journey'', Proc. Advances in Digital Libraries, Washington, May 1995, pp. 21-37.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Georgios. Ioanni Kouklakis, ``A Natural Language Generation System for a Heterogeneous Distributed Database System '', ISMIS '93, Trondheim, Norway, July 1993.

  • B.C. Desai, ``MODULA-2 and operating systems concepts'', Proceedings 2nd European MODULA-2 Conference, Leicester, England, September 1992.

  • B.C. Desai and L. Zhang, ``Multilevel Interface to a Distributed Database System'', 6th International Symposium ISMIS'91, Charlotte, NC, in [Lecture Notes in AI], No. 542, Springer-Verlag, (Eds. Z.W. Ras, M. Zemankova), 122-131, 1991.

  • B.C. Desai and R. Pollock, On Schema Integration in a ``Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management System'', COMPSAC'89 Proceedings, Orlando, FL 218-224, 1989.

  • B.C. Desai, C. Frasson and J. Vaucher, ``Intelligent Interfaces for Office Information Systems'', Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.4 Workshop on Office Knowledge: Representation, Management and Utilization, F. Lochovsky, ed., Toronto, Canada, 83-85, August 1988.

  • B.C. Desai, C. Frasson and J. Vaucher, ``Integrated Intelligent Interfaces for Office Information Systems'', Proceedings of the COMPINT-MONTECH'87, Montréal, November 1987.

  • B.C. Desai and P.J. Vincent, ``A Modular NL Interface for Easy Portability'', Proceedings of the COMPINT-MONTECH'87, Montréal, November 1987.

  • B.C. Desai, J. McManus and P.J. Vincent, ``A Portable Natural Language Interface'', Proceedings of the NCC, Chicago, ILL, June 1987.

  • B.C. Desai, P. Cook, C.A. Ellis, C. Frasson, J. Mylopoulos and N. Naffah, ``Artificial Intelligence in Office Information Systems'', Proceedings of the NCC, Chicago, ILL, 49-52, June 1987.

  Selected Books, Proceedings, Reports

  • "Proceedings of 7th C3S2E", General Chair: Bipin C. Desai, Montreal, QC, CANADA, ACM, August 2014,

  • "Proceedings of 6th C3S2E", General Chair:Bipin C. Desai, Editors: Ana Almeida, Jorge Bernardino, Sudhir Mudur, Porto, PT, ACM, July 2013,

  • "Proceedings of 5th C3S2E", Editors: Bipin C. Desai, Sudhir Mudur, Emil Vassev, Montreal, QC, CANADA, ACM, May 2012,

  • "Proceedings of 4th C3S2E", Editors: Bipin C. Desai, Alan Abran, Sudhir Mudur, Montreal, QC, CANADA, ACM, May 2011,

  • "Proceedings of 3rd C3S2E", Editors: Bipin C. Desai, Carson Lueng, Sudhir Mudur, Montreal, QC, CANADA, ACM, May 2010,

  • "Proceedings of C3S2E", Editors: Bipin C. Desai, Carson Lueng, Montreal, QC, CANADA ACM, May 2009,

  • "Proceedings of C3S2E", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Montreal, QC, CANADA ACM, May 2008,

  • "IDEAS'14, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", General chair: Bipin C. Desai, Eds.: Ana Almeida, Jorge Bernardino, Elsa Gomez, Porto, PT, ACM, July, 2012

  • "IDEAS'13, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", General Chair: Bipin C. Desai, Prog. Ch.: Jorge Beranrdino, Josep L Larriba-pey, Barcelona, Spain, ACM, Oct. 2013

  • "IDEAS'12, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Jorge Beranrdino, Jaraslov Pokorny, Prague, Czech Republic, ACM, Sept. 2012

  • "IDEAS'11, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Isabel Cruz, Jorge Beranrdino, Lisboa, Portugal, ACM, Sept. 2011,

  • "IDEAS'10, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Jorge Beranrdino, Montreal, Canada, ACM, August. 2010

  • "IDEAS'09, Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Cetraro, Italy, ACM, Sept. 2009,

  • "IDEAS'08, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editor: Bipin C. Desai, Coimbra, Portugal, Sept. 2008,

  • "IDEAS'07, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Editors: Bipin C. Desai, Ken Barker, Banff, AB, Canada, Sept. 2007,

  • Bipin C. Desai, Shyam K Gupta(Eds), "IDEAS'06, Proceedings of the Tenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposim", Delhi, India, Dec. 2006, to be published by IEEE

  • Bipin C. Desai, Gottfried Vossen(Eds), "IDEAS'05, Proceedings of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium", Montreal, Canada, July 2005, published by IEEE

  • Bipin C. Desai,(Ed.) "IDEAS'04DH, Proceedings of the IDEAS workshop on Digital Hospital", Beijing, China, Sept. 2004, published by IEEE

  • Bipin C. Desai, Jorge Bernardino,(Eds), "IDEAS'04, Proceedings of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposim", Coimbra, Portugal, July 2004, published by IEEE

  • Bipin C. Desai, Wilfred Ng, (Eds), "IDEAS'03, Proceedings: International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, 2003", Hong Kong, July 2003, published by IEEE

  • "IDEAS'02, Proceedings: International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, 2002'', General Chair Bipin C. Desai, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002, published by IEEE

  • Michel Adiba, Christine COllett, Bipin C. Desai(Editors) ``Proceedings of the 2001 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS2001", Grenoble, France, IEEE Press, July 2001.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Yasushi Kiyoki, Motomichi Toyoma(Editors) ``Proceedings of the 2000 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS2000", Yokohama, Japan, IEEE Press, September 2000.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Gösta Grahne (Editors) ``Proceedings of the 1999 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS99", Montréal, IEEE Press, August 1999.

  • Barry Eaglestone, Bipin C. Desai, J. Shao (Editors) ``Proceedings of the 1998 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS98", Cardiff, IEEE Press, July 1998.

  • Bipin C. Desai, Barry Eaglestone, (Editors) ``Proceedings of the 1997 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS97", Montréal, IEEE Press, August 1997, ISBN 0-8186-8114-4

  • Bipin C. Desai, Brian Pinkerton, (ed) ``Proceedings of the WWW III Workshop on Web-wide Indexing/Semantic Header or Cover Page", Darmstadt, Germany, April 1995, also available on the Web from http://www.cs.concordia.ca/ faculty/bcdesai/www3-wrkA/www3-wrkA-Proc.ps.gz

  • B.C. Desai, An Introduction to Database Systems, Textbook, West Publishing, 1990.


  Other Publications

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Multi-level Data Base Access System'',Report for CRIT/CWARC, Department of Communication, Government of Canada, 1991

  • Bipin C. Desai, ``Multi-level Data Base Access System'',Report for CRIT/CWARC, Department of Communication, Government of Canada, 1991

  • B.C. Desai, ``Multiple Data Base Access System'', Report for CRIT/CWARC, Department of Communication, Government of Canada, 1989.

  • B.C. Desai, ``Issues in the Design and Implementation of a Portable Natural Language Interface System'', Report for CRIT/CWARC, Department of Communication, Government of Canada, 1988

 
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