| 1997 | SP | Secure Software Architectures. | Mark Moriconi, Xiaolei Qian, Robert A. Riemenschneider, Li Gong |
| 1996 | EDBT | Correct Schema Transformations. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1996 | ICDE | Query Folding. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1996 | SP | A Security Model of Dynamic Labeling Providing a Tiered Approach to Verification. | Simon N. Foley, Li Gong, Xiaolei Qian |
| 1996 | SP | View-Based Access Control with High Assurance. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1995 | DBSEC | Towards a MAC Policy Framework. | Xiaolei Qian, Teresa F. Lunt |
| 1995 | ICDE | Query Interoperation Among Object-Oriented and Relational Databases. | Xiaolei Qian, Louiqa Raschid |
| 1994 | EDBT | A Model-Theoretic Semantics of the Multilevel Relational Model. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1994 | SP | The complexity and composability of secure interoperation. | Li Gong, Xiaolei Qian |
| 1994 | SP | Inference channel-free integrity constraints in multilevel relational databases. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1993 | SIGMOD | A Logical Semantics for Object-Oriented Databases. | Jos Meseguer, Xiaolei Qian |
| 1993 | SP | Detection and elimination of inference channels in multilevel relational database systems. | Xiaolei Qian, Mark E. Stickel, Peter D. Karp, Teresa F. Lunt, Thomas D. Garvey |
| 1992 | DBSEC | Toward a Tool to Detect and Eliminate Inference Problems in the Design of Multilevel Databases. | Thomas D. Garvey, Teresa F. Lunt, Xiaolei Qian, Mark E. Stickel |
| 1992 | DBSEC | Tuple-level vs Element-level Classification. | Xiaolei Qian, Teresa F. Lunt |
| 1992 | VLDB | Integrity Maintenance in Object-Oriented Databases. | H. V. Jagadish, Xiaolei Qian |
| 1990 | VLDB | Synthesizing Database Transactions. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1988 | ICDE | An Effective Method for Integrity Constraint Simplification. | Xiaolei Qian |
| 1988 | SIGMOD | A Transaction Logic for Database Specification. | Xiaolei Qian, Richard J. Waldinger |
| 1987 | ICDE | Modeling Asynchrony in Distributed Databases. | Gio Wiederhold, Xiaolei Qian |
| 1987 | VLDB | Integrity Constraint Reformulation for Efficient Validation. | Xiaolei Qian, Douglas R. Smith |
| 1986 | VLDB | Knowledge-based Integrity Constraint Validation. | Xiaolei Qian, Gio Wiederhold |
| 1985 | ER | Data Definition Facilities of Critias. | Xiaolei Qian, Gio Wiederhold |