Conference Proceedings
Edited and Text Books
Journal papers
Book chapters
Conference papers
Technical reports

Conference Proceedings

• IEEE International Symposium of Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'01)

Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Douglas Schmidt (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
IEEE Publisher, ISBN 0-7-7695-1300-X

• IEEE International Symposium of Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00)

Pamela Drew (Boeing Company, USA)
Robert Meersman (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
Roberto Zicari (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany)
IEEE Publisher, ISBN 0-7695-0819-7

• IEEE International Symposium of Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'99)

Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
Robert Meersman (Free University Of Brussels, Belgium)
Richard Soley (OMG, USA)
Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA)
IEEE Publisher, ISBN 0-7695-0182-6

Edited Books &Textbooks

• Distributed Object Computing: The CORBA perspective.

Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA)
John Wiley. Scheduled for February 2001.
 
• Database Security: Status and Prospect.

Bhavani Thuraisingham (MITRE, USA)
Klaus R. Dittrich (University of Zurich, Zwitzerland
Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia)
Kluwer Academic Publisher.2001
 
• Object-Oriented Data Modelling Themes

Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Prof. Stefano Spaccapietra (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia)
MIT Press. 2000.
 
• Semantics of Multimedia Systems

Robert Meersman (Free University Of Brussels, Belgium)
Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Scott Stevens (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dec. 1999. 472 pp.
ISBN 0-7923-8405-9.
To purchase, contact Kluwer academic publisher
Price: $170.00

Journal papers

• Controlling Aggregation in Distributed Object Systems: A Graph-based Approach

Zahir Tari
Andrew Fry
(RMIT University, Australia)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), November 2001.
 
• Cache Management in CORBA Distributed Object Systems

Zahir Tari
Qi Tang Lin
Herry Hamidjaja
(RMIT University, Australia).
Special issue on "Caching in Distributed Systems"
IEEE Concurrency, July-September, 8(3), pp. 48-55, 2000.
 
• ARM+ : A Hybrid Data Mining Algorithm

Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
R. Wu (RMIT University, Australia)
DKE Journal, 2000. To appear.
 
• Type Safety in the Context of Method Updates

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Xue Li (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Ling Liu (Georgia Tech., USA)
Kluwer International Journal on Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 13(3), 1999, pp. 279-298.
 
• A Context-based Approach for the CORBA Trading Service

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Greg Craske (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
IEICE Transactions on Information Systems, volume E-82-D, no.1, 1999, pp. 208-223.
 
• QAL: A Query Algebra for Objects

Iztok Savnik (University of Lubjana, Slovenia)
Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
T Mohoric  (University of Lubjana, Slovenia)
Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 30(1), May 1999, pp. 57-94.
 
• Mobile Computing: Overview and Current Status

Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia)
Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
(also Guest Editors)
Special issue of Australian Computer Journal (ACJ) on Mobile Computing, 30(2), pp. 42-52, May 1998.
 
• A Role-based Access Control for Intranet Security

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Hans Chan (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
IEEE Internet Computing, 1(5), 1997, pp. 24-34.
• Using Agents for Secure Access to Data in the Internet

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
IEEE Communications, 35(6), June 1997, pp. 136-140.
 
• Dependency Constraints and Normal Forms for Object-Oriented Schemata

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
John Stokes (Queensland University Of Technology, Australia)
Stefano Spaccapietra ((Swiss federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
ACM Transaction on Database Systems (TODS), 22(4), Dec. 1997, pp. 513-569.
 
• A Framework for Method Evolution and Behaviour Consistency in Object-Oriented Databases

Zahir Tari (Queensland Univesrity of Technology, Australia)
Xue Li (Queensland Univesrity of Technology, Australia)
Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 6(2), 1996, pp. 279-305
 
• An Overview of Reflection and Its Use in Cooperation

David Edmond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Mike Papazoglou (Queensland Univesrity of Technology, Australia)
Zahir Tari (Queensland Univesrity of Technology, Australia)
Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (ICIS), 4(1), 1995, pp. 3-44.
 
• Method Evolution Framework for Object-Oriented Systems

Zahir Tari (Queensland Univesrity of Technology, Australia)
Xue Li (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Int. Jnl of Computing and Informatics (Informatica), 18(3), 1994, pp. 257-276.
 
• Null Values in Data Base Systems

Zahir Tari (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
Alex Techvtchenko (University of Moscou, USSR)
DECUS Newsletter, January 1993

Book chapters

• Towards Robust Mobile Middleware for Large Scale Distributed On-line Applications

Z. Tari, P. Bertok and A. Vora (RMIT University)
In: L. Ee Peng and K. Siau (eds.), Idea-Group Publishing. 2002.
 
• CODAR – A POA-based CORBA Database Adaptor for Web Service Infrastructures

Z. Tari, S. Setiawan (RMIT University)
K. Tari (University of Bejaia, Algeria)
In: D. Taniar (eds.), Idea-Group Publishing. 2002.
 
• Teaching Object-Oriented Databases

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA)
Greg Craske (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
In: "Succeeding with Object-Oriented Databases", Akmal Chaudri and Roberto Zicari (eds), John Wiley & Son, 2000.
 
• Supporting Cooperative Databases with Distributed Objects

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia)
Iztok Savnik (Friburg University, Germany)
In: Parallel and Distributed Systems: Theory & Applications, J.L. A. Castro (ed.), 1999.
 
• The Reengineering of Relational Databases based on Key and Data Correlations

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA)
John Stokes (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Slimane Hammoudi (University of Rennes, France)
In: Searching for Semantics: Data Mining, Reverse Engineering, etc. , S. Spaccapietra and F. Maryanski (eds.), Chapman & Hall, 1998.
 
• Designing Security Agents for the DOK Federated Database System

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
In: Database Security XI: Status and Prospects, T.Y. Lin and X. Qian (eds), Chapman & Hall, 1998.
 
• Aggregation in Federated Databases: The DOK Approach

Zahir Tari
In: Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Y. Kambayachi and K. Yokota (eds), World Scientific Co., 1997 (ISBN 981-02-3090-7), pp. 100-107.
 
• Security Enforcement in the DOK Federated Database System

Zahir Tari (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
George Fernandez (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia)
In: Database Security X: Status and Prospects, P Samarati & R Sandhu (eds.), Chapman & Hall, 1997, pp. 23-42 (ISBN 0 412 80820 X)
 
• Object-Oriented Technology for Inter-Schema and Language Mappings

Mike Papazoglou (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Zahir Tari (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Nick Russel (Queendland University of Technology, Australia))
In: Object-Oriented Multidabase Systems: A Solution for Advanced Applications, O Bukhres and A K Elmagardmid (eds.), Prentice Hall , 1995, pp. 203-245 (ISBN 0 13 103813 2)
 
• Interoperability between New Database Languages

Zahir Tari (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
In: Interoperable Database Systems DK Hsiao, EJ Neuhold, R Sacks-Davis (eds), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), 1993, pp. 207-222 (ISBN 0 444 89979 4)

Conference papers

• Dynamic Task Assignment in Server Farms–Better Performance by Task Grouping

L. Tan and Z. Tari
Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Taormina (Italy), July 2002.
• Predicate-Based Caching Scheme for Wireless Environments

P. Chou and Z. Tari
Proc. of International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Spain, 2002.
• Designing a Query and Object Cache Management System for CODAR Database Adapter

Z. Tari, V. Dupin and K. Tari
Proc. of International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Spain, 2002.
• A CORBA Cooperative Cache Approach with Popularity Admission and Routing Mechanism

Zahir Tari and Herry Hamidjadja
Proc. of Australian Database Conference (ADC), 2002.
• Dynamic Workflow Management in CORBA Distributed Object Systems

Z. Tari and V. Pande
Proces. of the Int. Symposium on  Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE), Limerick (Ireland), 2000.
• A Caching Approach to improve CORBA Performance

Z. Tari, Q. Lin and H.  Hamidjaja
Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Internet 2000 (IWI200), Taipei, April 2000.
• A Query Propagation Approach to Improve CORBA Trading Service Scalability

Z. Tari and G. Craske
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Distributed and Computer Systems (ICDCS'00). Taipei, April 2000.
• A Caching Protocol to Improve CORBA Performance

S. Wagner and Z. Tari
Proc. of the Australian Database Conference (ADC'00), Canberra, January 2000;
• A CORBA Object-based Caching with Consistency

Z. Tari, S. Hammoudi and S. Wagner
Proc. of the Int. Conference on Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA'99), Florence, Sept. 1999, pp. 322-331.
• DOK-Trader: A CORBA Persistent Trader with Query Routing Facilities.

G. Craske, Z. Tari and K. Kumar
Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'99), Edinburgh, Sept. 1999, pp. 230-241.
• A Property-based Clustering Approach for the CORBA Trading Service.

G. Craske and Z. Tari
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Distributed and Computer Systems (ICDCS'99), Texas, June 1999, pp. 517-527.
• Achieving Reliability of Distributed Applications in a Wireless Multi-Network Environment

A Zaslavsky, Y.M. Sung, Z Tari
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDCS'98), Las Vegas, October 1998.
• An Efficient Trader Using Attribute Clustering Technique in Distributed Object Systems

B Fan, K Kumar and Z Tari
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Parralel and Distributed Processing Technique and Applications (PDPTA98), Las Vegas, 1998.
• Querying Objects with Complex Static Structure

I Savnik and Z Tari
Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS'98), Roskilde (Danemark), May 1998. Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag
• Dealing with Version Pertinence to Design an Efficient Schema Evolution Framework

B Benatallah and Z Tari
Proc. of Int. Database Engineering and Application Symposium (IDEAS'98), Cardiff (UK), July 1998.
• Class Versioning for the Schema Evolution

X Li and Z Tari, Proc. of the Australian Database Conference (ADC), Perth, 1998, pp. 117-128.
• Towards Cooperative Databases: A Distributed Object Approach

Z Tari, A. Zaslavsky, H. Smidth, I. Savnik, and W. Cheng
Proc. of the Int Conf. on Information, Systems, Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS), Caracas, 1997.
• Designing the Reengineering Service for the DOK Federated Database System

Z Tari and J Stokes
Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'97), Birmingham, 1997, pp. 465-475
• A Framework for Aggregation Constraint Monitoring in Federated Databases

Z Tari and P. Ratnasingham
Proc. of the Australian Computer Science (ACS) cconference, Sydney, 1997, pp. 287-296
• Towards Cooperative Databases: The DOK Approach

Z Tari, W Cheng, K Yetongnon and I Savnik
Proc. of Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), Dijon, 1996, pp. 595-600
• The DOK Project: Towards the Integration of Heterogeneous and Distributed Multimedia Databases

Z Tari, K Yetongnon, I Savnik, W Cheng, G Fernandez
Proc. of the Int Conf. on Information, Systems, Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS), Orlando, 1996, pp. 852-860
• Querying Conceptual Schemata of Object-Oriented Databases

I Savnik and Z Tari
Proc of the DEXA Workshop, Zurich, 1996, pp. 384-390
• Using Schema Information for Querying Databases

I Savnik, Z Tari and T Mohoric
Proc of the Int Workshop on Reasoning about Structured Objects: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases, Bielefeld, Germany, 1995
• Packaging Knowledge into Metaobjects

D Edmond, M Papazoglou, N Russell, Z Tari
Proc of the Int Workshop on Reasoning about Structured Objects: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases, Bielefeld, Germany, 1995
• R-OK: A Reflective Model for Distributed Object Management

D Edmond, M Papazoglou and Z Tari
Proc of Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE'95), Taiwan, 1995, pp. 34-41
• Using Reflection as a Means of Achieving Cooperation

D Edmond, M Papazoglou and Z Tari
Proc. of the FGCS'94 Workshop on Heterogeneous Knowledge-Bases, Tokyo, Dec. 1994
• Method Restructuring and Consistency Checking in Object-Oriented Systems

Z Tari and X Li
Proc of Int Conf in Entity Relationship Conference (ER'94), Manchester, 1994, pp. 152-170
• Consistency Checking of Evolving Methods

X Li and Z Tari
Proc of Int Conf on Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA'94), Athens, 1994, pp. 135-144
• ERC++: A Conceptual Model based on Object and Logic Paradigms

Z Tari
Proc of ACM Conf on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'93), Washington, 1993, pp. 625-634.
• On the Design of Object-Oriented Databases

Z Tari
Proc of the 11th Int Conf on Entity Relationship Approach (ER'92), Karlsruhe, 1992, pp. 389-405
• SUPER-Visual Interaction with an Object-Based ER Model

A Auddino, Y Dennebouy, Y Dupont, E Fontana, S Spaccapietra and Z Tari
Proc of the Int 11th Conf on Entity Relationship Approach (ER'92), Karlsruhe, 1992, 340-356.
• Designing Object-Oriented Databases with a Semantic Data Model and a Rule Model

Z Tari
Proc of the Int Conf on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'92), Valencia, 1992, pp. 108-114
• A Practical Approach for Designing Object-Oriented Databases

Z Tari and A Haddak
Proc of the 2nd Int Conf on Computer Science Conference on Data and Knowledge Engineering: theory and applications, Hong Kong, Dec. 1992
• SUPER: a Comprehensive Approach to DBMS Visual User Interfaces

A Auddino, Y Dennebouy, Y Dupont, E Fontana, S Spaccapietra and Z Tari
Proc of the Int Conf on Visual Database Systems, Budapest, Oct. 1991
• Database Visual Environments based on Advanced Data Models

A Auddino, E Amiel, Y Dennebouy, Y Dupont, E Fontana, S Spaccapietra and Z Tari
Proc of the Int Conf On Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), Roma, May 1992.

Technical reports

1. Explanation in Frame-Based Systems

Z Tari
PhD thesis (in French), University of Grenoble, 1985-1989
2. Knowledge Base Navigation: Guided Examination of the Knowledge Base

M A Durillon and Z Tari
Esprit Project, EPSILON's research report, No 530, May 1989
3. Reflective Approaches: A Survey D Edmond, M Papazoglou and Z Tari

Technical Report, Reflective Project, Queensland University of Technology, School of Information Systems, 1993.
(short version of this paper has been published in the ICIS journal - see above)
4. The Risk Analysis Project
• The Security Architecture (Vol 1)
• Risiko Daten Speicher (RDS) (Vol 2)
• Platform Domain (Vol 3)
• Information Assets and Process Domain (Vol 4)
• Mappings (Vol 5)
• QUT-NT Prototype for Risk Analysis (Vol 6)
A Anderson, W Caelli, D Longley, V Murthy, M Papazoglou and Z Tari
Queensland University of Technology, Information Security Research Center, 1994
This report is a confidential document.