Dr. Marie Khair received her Ph.D. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is a full time member in the rank of associate professor at the faculty of Natural and applied sciences at Notre Dame University – Louaize. Her main research interests cover mainly design and implementation of database systems, database systems security, information systems security, medical information systems, distributed and grid databases, access control policies, and Semantic web.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Polytechnic school, Aristotle’s University of Thessalonica, Greece, 1996.

B.S., Lebanese University, Lebanon, 1990.

Refereed Journal Articles

Ioannis Mavridis, Christos Georgiadis, George Pangalos, Marie Khair (2001) Access control based on attribute certificates for medical Intranet applications. Journal of Medical Internet Research, Issue 1, Volume 3.

Pangalos G., Khair M., Bozios L. (1994) Enhancing medical database security. Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1994, pp 159- 171.

Conference Proceedings

Bechara M, and Khair M. (2008) Secure Diagonal Replication in Grid Database. Current Trends in the Theory and Applications of Computer Science, CTTACS07, Beirut: Notre Dame University Press, pp. 81-93.

Bassam Aoun and Marie Khair (2007) Mining the web for learning the ontology. The 2nd international conference on software and data technologies, ICSOFT 07, Barcelona, Spain, pp 189-193.

Bechara M, and Khair M. (2006)Trust-Based Diagonal Replication on Grid Databases.The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2006), Yarmouk University, Jordan, December 19-21,

Pangalos G., Khair M., Mavridis I. (2000) Security Considerations in Designing Distributed Medical Databases. Honorary Volume dedicated to Professor Emeritus I. D. Mittas, Aristotle’s University of Thessalonica, Thessalonica, Greece, pp 391- 406.

Mavridis I., Georgiadis C., Pangalos G. and Khair M. (2000) Using Digital Certificates for Access Control in Clinical Intranet Applications. Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (MEDNET 2000), Brussels, Belgium, pp 173-174.

Khalil N, Eid D., Khair M. (1999) Availability and Reliability Issues in Distributed Databases using Optimal Horizontal Fragmentation Database and Expert Systems Applications, 10th international conference, DEXA’99, Florence, Italy, pp 771 – 780.

Mavridis I., Pangalos G. and Khair M. (1999) eMEDAC: Role-based Access Control Supporting Discretionary and Mandatory Features. Proceedings of 13th IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Database Security, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 63 – 78.

Mavridis I., Pangalos G., Khair M. and Bozios L. (1999) Defining Access Control Mechanisms for Privacy Protection in Distributed Medical Databases. Proceedings of IFIP Working Conference on User Identification and Privacy Protection, Stockholm, Sweden, pp 111-127.

Tzelepi S., Pangalos G., and Khair M. (1999) Classification of Multimedia Medical Records for Improved Access Control. Proceedings of EUROREC99 Conference, Seville, Spain, pp 234-239.

Mavridis I., Pangalos G. and Khair M. (1999) A Role-Based Security Policy for Access Control in Electronic Health care Record. Proceedings of EUROREC99 Conference, Seville, Spain, pp 240 -245.

Khair M., Mavridis I. and Pangalos G. (1999) Design of Secure Distributed Database Systems with Application to the Healthcare Environment. Proceedings of 2nd International Al Shaam Conference on Information technology, Damascus, Syria.

Mavridis I., Pangalos G. and Khair M. (1999) An Implementation of RBAC Features for Medical Databases Access Control. Health Care Information Management Conference, HC99, Harrogate United Kingdom.

Khair M., (1999) An Implementation of RBAC Features for Medical Databases Access Control. National council for Scientific research and Lebanese Association for the advancement of science, 13th Science Meeting, Beirut: LAU, pp 75-76.

Khair M. (1999) Security Issues in the Lebanese National Infrastructure. Lebanese Information Infrastructure: Vision and Promises, Lebanon: Balamand University Press.

Khair M., Mavridis I., Pangalos G. (1998) Design of Secure Distributed medical Database Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Database and Expert Systems Applications, 9th International Conference, DEXA’98, Vienna, Austria, pp. 492- 500.

Tzelepi S., Pangalos G., Khair M. (1997) Data Protection Issues of Medical Image Databases. The sixth Panhellenic  Informatics conference, Athens, pp 271-278.

Tzelepi S., Pangalos G., Khair M. (1997) Security of Medical Image Databases. The Fourteenth International Congress on Medical Informatics in Europe, MIE 97, pp 470-474.

Khair M., Pangalos G., Andria F., Bozios L. (1997) Implementing Security on A Prototype Hospital Database. The Fourteenth International Congress on Medical Informatics in Europe, MIE 97,pp 176-180.

Pangalos G., Khair M., and Tzelepi S. (1996) Integrating content-based security constraints in a medical image database. EuroPACS’96, the 14th International EuroPACS Meeting, pp157-160.

Khair M. (1996) Design and implementation of a secure medical database. Proceedings of the 1st meeting of the IKAROS Greek Computer Society's human network for the Security, Quality, and Reliability in Information & Communication Technologies.

Pangalos G., Khair M. (1996) Design of secure medical database systems. IFIP/SEC’96, 12th international information security conference, Samos, Greece, pp 387- 401.

Pangalos G., Gritzalis D., Khair M., Bozios L. (1995) Improving the security of medical database systems. IFIP/SEC'95 International Conference on Information Systems  Security, pp 2-25.

Pangalos G., Khair M., Bozios L. (1995) An integrated secure design of a medical database system.  MEDINFO'95, The 8th World Congress on Medical Informatics, Vancouver, Canada.

Pangalos G., Pomportis A., Khair M., Bozios L. (1994) Development of secure medical database systems, procedures. Conference on database and expert systems applications, DEXA '94, pp680-689.