Recent refereed publications appearing in scientific journals

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

  Recent refereed publications appearing in conference proceedings

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. Bipin C. Desai, ``Indexing and Searching Internet Resources'', DEXA 95, London, England, September 1995, pp. 339-348

9. 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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

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

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

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

19. 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.

  Recent Books, Proceedings, Reports

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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

  Other Publications

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

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

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

4. 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