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My Research Peer Reviewed Journals
  1. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, An Innovative Lossless Compression method for Discrete-Color Images, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 24, No.1, pp. 44 - 56.2015
  2. Saif alZahir and Dhawal Singh, A Fast Wavelet Packets and PCA Based Image indexing and Authentication Method, IEEE-CCECE, Halifax, NS, Canada, pp. 1223-1227, May 2015
  3. Saif alZahir and Radwa Hammad, “New Gage for Measuring Image Quality”, IEEE-CCECE, Halifax, NS, Canada, pp. 1228-1233, May 2015
  4. Saif alZahir and Radwa Hammad, mHealth Portable Systems and Platforms, Springer, Book Chapter, Mobile Health: A Technology Road Map, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-12816-0, pp 472-488, March 2015
  5. Saif alZahir, A fast New Rotation Insensitive WP-Based Method for Image Indexing and Retrieval, IGI, in Computer Vision and Image Processing in Intelligent Systems and Multimedia Technologies, ISBN13: 9781466660304, pp 234-246, April 2014
  6. Saif alZahir and laura Kombo, Towards a Global Code of Ethics for Engineers, IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology, Ethics’2014, Chicago, USA, May 23-24, 2014.
  7. Saif alZahir and Radwa Hammad, Smartphones and Wireless Technology Driven Remote Health Delivery, Conference on Rural Health through Knowledge, Research and Collaborative Action, IDC Northern Research Days and Canadian Rural Health Research Society (CRHRS) Conference, Prince George, BC November 13-15, 2013.
  8. Saif alZahir and M. Naqvi, “An Efficient Lossless/Lossy Bi-level Image Compression Scheme”, International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 37-50, December 2013
  9. Saif alZahir and Wahed Islam, “Audio Watermarking Scheme Using IMFs and HHT”, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, (IJDCF), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 55-67, December 2013
  10. Saif alZahir and Faramarz Kashanchi, “A New Image Quality Measure”, IEEE – CCECE, Regina, SK, Canada, pp. 1-5, May 2013
  11. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, "An Efficient Block Entropy Based Compression Scheme for Systems-on-a-Chip Test Data", Journal Signal Processing Systems, Springer, November, 2011
  12. Saif alZahir, "A Universal Lossless Compression Algorithm for Textual Images", Optical Engineering Journal SPIE, Vol. 51, No. 03, March 2012
  13. Aiman ElMaleh, Saif alZahir, and Issam Khan, “Test Data Compression Based on Geometric Shapes”, Test Data Compression, Journal on Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, pp 376-391, April 2011.
  14. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, “Entropy-based Assessment of Written Albanian Language”, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics JQL, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 18, Issue 1, Pages 89 – 106, 2011
  15. Saif alZahir and Han Donker, A Novel Regression Based Model for Detecting Anemia Using Color Microscopic Blood Images, Journal of Software Engineering & Applications, Scientific Research, Vol. 3, pages 756-761, September, 2010
  16. S. Zahir and R. Ward, “ A New Edge Preserving Binary Images Resizing Technique”, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 11, No. 3, June 2002
  17. S. Zahir, P. Nasiopoulos, and V. Leung,” A High Quality VBR MPEG System for Internet and Broadcasting Applications”, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 43, No. 3, August 1997, PP 531-537
  18. Y. Sherif and S. Zahir, " Communication Systems for Load Management, " IEEE Transaction on PAS, Vol. PAS 104, No. 12, Dec 1985
  19. Y. Sherif and S. Zahir," On Power Line Carrier Communications (PLC)", Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 24, No. 4, Pergamon, Great Britain, 1984
  20. Su, S., H. Donker and S. Zahir, (2009), Merger control regulations in emerging economies: the case of China, International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 370-388.
  21. Donker, H., B. Santen and S. Zahir, (2009), Ownership Structure and the Likelihood of Financial Distress in the Netherlands, Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 19, No. 19-21, pp. 1687-1696.
  22. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2009), The returns to bidding firms in corporate takeovers: splitting up the pie, International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 340-357.
  23. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2008), Takeovers, corporate control, and the return to target shareholders, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 106-133.
  24. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2008), The Characteristics of Bidding Firms and the Likelihood of Cross-border Acquisitions, Journal of Global Business Management, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 214-219.
  25. Donker, H, and S. Zahir, (2008) Towards an impartial and effective corporate governance rating system, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 83-93.
  26. Donker, H., D. Poff and S. Zahir, (2008), Values, Codes and Profitability: A Look at the Canadian Context, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 527-537.
  27. Donker, H. and Zahir, S., (2007), Corporate Governance failure: Lessons from recent mergers and acquisitions, Corporate Finance Review, September/October, pp. 5-11.
  28. Saif alZahir and Brian Huffman, The Corporate Response to International Terrorism: The Why and How of Geopolitical Evaluation, Journal of Contemporary Business Issues, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003
  29. Saif alZahir and Wahed Islam, A Balanced Semi-Blind Digital Watermarking Scheme Using DWT, ALHOSN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2011 accepted for publication – in press.
  30. Saif alZahir and Kal Dhou, Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier, in press.
  31. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, A Model for Anonymous Text Authorship Expose’ Journal on Digital Investigation, Elsevier, in press.
  32. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, A Universal Codebook Compression Technique for Linear Test Vectors, IEEE Transaction on VLSI, in press.

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
  1. Saif alZahir, “Visibly Accurate Model-Based Binary Image Compression Scheme”, IEEE – ICSIPA, Kula Lumpur, Nov. 2011
  2. Saif alZahir, “A Fast Lossless Compression Algorithm for Arabic Textual Images”, IEEE – ICSIPA, Kula Lumpur, Nov. 2011
  3. S. alZahir and W. Islam, “A New Wavelet-Based Image Watermarking Technique”, IEEE- International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE2011, Las Vegas, pp 744-745, Jan 2011.
  4. Saif alZahir, “Color Maps and Graphs Compression”, IEEE-International Conference on Image processing, ICIP, pp 489-492, Hong Kong, September 2010
  5. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, A Fast Lossless Compression Scheme for Digital Map Images Using Color Separation, IEEE – ICASSP, Dallas TX, pages 1318-1321, March 2010.
  6. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, Lossless Compression of Maps, Charts, and Graphs via Color Separation, Data Compression Conference, UT, March 2010. Poster Session
  7. H. Donker, B. Santen, and S. Zahir, “Ownership structure and the likelihood of financial distress in the Netherlands”, Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA) in Rotterdam, 2008
  8. May Siksik, H. Alnuweiri, S. Zahir, “A Novel Adaptive Method for Minimizing Handoff Delays in Mobile IPv6 Networks”, IEEE-CCECE 07, April 2007
  9. Saif Zahir and Kal Dhou, A New Chain Coding Based Method for Binary Image Compression and Reconstruction, EUROSIP-Picture Coding Symposium, Portugal, PSC - Conference Proceedings, November 2007
  10. S. Zahir, ”A Low Complexity Wavelet-Packets Based Image Signature for Indexing and Retrieval”, IEEE-CCECE, Ottawa, Canada, pp 2076-2080, May 2006.
  11. Saif Zahir, Rejaul Chowdhury and Geoffery Payne, “Automated Assessment of Erythrocyte Disorders Using Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE-ISSPIT, Vancouver, BC, pp.776-780, August 2006.
  12. Saif Zahir and Rejaul Chowdhury, “A hybrid 2-3-3 Bits-Based Image Encoding Scheme”, IEEE-ISSPIT, Vancouver, pp. 781-786, August 2006,
  13. Lele Zhou and Saif Zahir,” A New Efficient Context-Based Relative –Directional Chain Coding”, IEEE – ISSPIT, Vancouver, BC, pp. 787-790, August 2006
  14. Lele Zhou and Saif Zahir,”A Novel Shape Coding Scheme For MPEG-4 Visual Standard” IEEE-ICICIC, Beijing, China, pp. 585-589, August 30-September 1, 2006.
  15. Lele Zhou and Saif Zahir,” A New Efficient Algorithm for Lossless Binary Image Compression Scheme,” IEEE-CCECE, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 624-628, May 2006.
  16. Saif alZahir, “A Perceptually Perfect Image Resizing Scheme”, IEEE-ICCE Proceedings, Las Vegas, USA, January 2005
  17. Yasser Fallah, Saif alZahir, and Hussein Alnuweri, “A Fast Rate Control Mechanisim for Video Streaming Applications”, IEEE-ICCE Proceedings, January 2005.
  18. May Siksik, H. Alnuweiri, S. Zahir, “A Detailed Characterization of the Handover Process using Mobile IPV6 in 802.11 Networks”, IEEE Pacific Rim - Communications, Computers and signal Processing, pp. 312-315, August 2005
  19. May Siksik, H. Alnuweiri, S. Zahir,” Performance Evaluation of Micro-Mobility Management Using Mobile IPV6”, WirelessCom, Hawaii, pp.13-16, June 2005
  20. Saif Zahir and Syed Naqvi,” A New Rectangular Partitioning Based Lossless Binary Image Compression Scheme”, IEEE-CCECE, Saskatoon, May, 2005
  21. S. Zahir and M. Naqvi,” A Near Minimum Sparse Pattern Coding Based Scheme for Binary Image Compression ”, IEEE-ICIP 2005, Genoa, Italy, September 2005
  22. S. Zahir and M. Naqvi,” A New Rectangular Partitioning Based Lossless Binary Image Compression Scheme”, IEEE-CCECE, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2005
  23. Y. Fallah, S. Zahir, and H. Alnuweri, “A Fast Rate Control Mechanism for Video Streaming Applications”, Proceedings, IEEE-ICCE, January 2005
  24. S. Zahir, Lele Zhou, M. Naqvi,” A Step-by-Step Visualization of Interactive Data Compression Algorithm for eLearning”, Proceedings WCCCE05, PG, May 2005
  25. Han Donker and Saif Zahir, Corporate Governance Ratings: A Single Score or More? Proceedings Emerging Issues in Business and Technology, November, pp. 172-179, 2005
  26. Saif Zahir, “A Near Optimal Predictive Image Encoding Algorithm”, Proceedings IEEE-ICENCO, Cairo-Egypt, December 2004. (voted as best paper – in the Session)
  27. A. Paquet, S. Zahir, and R. Ward, “Wavelet Packets-Based Image Retrieval“, IEEE-ICASSP 2002, Orlando, Florida, pp 3640-3643, May 2002
  28. S. Zahir, A.El-Maleh, and Esam Khan,” A Geometric-Primitives-BasedCompression Scheme for Testing”, IEEE-VTS, Los Anglos, April 29-May 4, 2001
  29. A. El-Maleh, S. alZahir, and Esam Khan, ”An Efficient Test Vector Compression Technique Based on Geometric Shapes”, IEEE-ICECS, September 2001, Malta
  30. S. Zahir, A. Agha, and R. Ward, “A Near Exact Bi-level Image Expansion Scheme”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP-2000, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000.
  31. A. Agha, R. Ward, and S. Zahir, “ Image Expansion Using Segmentation-Based method”, IEEE PASRIM - Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, August 23-25, 1999.
  32. L. Ghouti, M. Suhail, and S. Zahir, “A Multiresolution-Based Technique for Intelligent Defect Classification” 26th Annual Review of Progress in Qualitative Nondestructive Evaluation QNDE Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 25-30, 1999.
  33. S. Zahir and M. Kanefsky,“ A Novel Near Information Preserving Adaptive Image Encoder”, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signals and Image Processing (NSIP), Mackinac Island, MI, September 8-10, 1997.
  34. S. Zahir and H. Alnuweri, ”VBR MPEG-2 Encoded Video over ATM Broadband Satellite Networks”, Proceeding SPIE International Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Dallas TX, Nov. 2-7, 1997.
  35. S. Zahir, S. Lee, and M. Kanefsky," A Segmentation-Based Prediction Algorithm for coding of Images," Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Utah-USA, March 1994.
  36. S. Zahir, M. Simaan, and M. Kanefsky," Properties of the Adapted Mean and Alpha Trimmed Mean Filters for Binary Image Applications," Proc. International Conference on Simulation and Modeling, IASTED-ISMM, Pittsburgh, May 1993.

Books and Book Chapters
  1. Saif alZahir, Prediction Theory: The Case of Image Information Reserving, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-8473-4777-4, Germany, 2012
  2. Saif alZahir and Radwa Hammad, mHealth Portable Systems and Platforms, Springer, Book Chapter, Mobile Health: A Technology Road Map, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-12816-0, pp 472-488, March 2015
  3. Saif alZahir, A fast New Rotation Insensitive WP-Based Method for Image Indexing and Retrieval, IGI, in Computer Vision and Image Processing in Intelligent Systems and Multimedia Technologies, ISBN13: 9781466660304, pp 234-246, April 2014.
  4. Saif alZahir, M-Learning: Accessibility and limitations for people with Disabilities, IGI Global, Chapter 13, pp180-193, ISBN 978-1-61520-923-1, 2011
  5. Saif alZahir, "Oceanographic Atlas for Kuwaiti Waters", Atlas Book, ISBN 99906-41-19-6, March 2004.
  6. Saif Zahir, Cyberpower for economic and social development in the Arab world. Chapter-20, New Economic Developments and their impact on Arab economies. Elsevier Science B.V. ISBN 0-444-50233-5, 1999

Other Papers (reviewed by conference committee)
  1. Saif Zahir and Mhamed Zineddine, “Towards a Dynamic Average Score for Arab Universities Admission” Proceedings of the 34 Conference, Abu Dhabi, AD, UAE. April 2011
  2. Saif Zahir and Marko Savic, “Towards an Arab Initiative for Trans-border Mobility of University Faculty and Students as a Response to Globalization”, Proceedings of the 34 Conference, Abu Dhabi, AD, UAE. April 2011
  3. S. Zahir, Lele Zhou, M. Naqvi,” A Step-by-Step Visualization of Interactive Data Compression Algorithm for eLearning”, Proceedings WCCCE05, PG, May 2005
  4. L. Williams and S. Zahir,“ Designing GUI for Computer Novice Users in Higher Education”, Proceedings WCCCE’ 04, May 2004
  5. S. Zahir," A Proposed Model for Scientific and Technological Information Network in the Arab States" International Conference on Information and Technical Innovation, UNESCO, IDRC, ISTIC, and WFEO, Beijing, China, May 1989
  6. S. Zahir, "Some Aspects of Remote Sensing as Applied to Urban Planning," Proceedings French-Jordanian Symposium on Remote Sensing, March 1986