Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (159)

TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2013). TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications 2013 (215-223). https://doi.org/10.1109/Gr

Much research has been conducted focusing on improving resource utilization efficiency in data centers in the context of Green Cloud Computing (GCC). While virtualization enables better resource provision and utilization for various computational res... Read More about TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs..

Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2013). Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing. In Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'13) (244-247). https://doi.org/10.1109/cloudcom.

Pricing Intelligence as a service (PINaaS) can be seen as the brokerage of user requirements to pricing of available resources in a cloud computing environment. Users of both public and private clouds have to consider the price of services they consu... Read More about Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing.

Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Chalmers, K., & Liu, X. (2013, June). Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal. Presented at International Conference on Information So

Model Driven based approach for Service Evolution in Clouds will mainly focus on the reusable evolution patterns' advantage to solve evolution problems. During the process, evolution pattern will be driven by MDA models to pattern aspects. Weaving th... Read More about Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal..

Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture. (2013)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., Chalmers, K., & Liu, X. (2013). Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture. International Journal for e-Learning Security, 3, 340-349. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijels.2046.4568.2013.0042

In this paper we will provide some discovered evolution patterns and its detailed underlying constitution components. Following the featured orientated model driven product line engineering approach for service evolution in clouds, an analysis on... Read More about Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture..

Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nussbaumer, N., & Liu, X. (2013). Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach. In 2013 IEEE 37th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW),. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSACW.2013.71

Cloud computing has gained immense momentum during recent years and has ultimately become a viable solutions not only for larger firms, but also for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For smaller companies to stay competitive, many have there... Read More about Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach..

Jabber-based cross-domain efficient and privacy-ensuring context management framework. (2013)
Journal Article
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2013). Jabber-based cross-domain efficient and privacy-ensuring context management framework. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 4, 84

In pervasive environments, context-aware applications require a global knowledge of the context information distributed in different spatial domains in order to establish context-based interactions. Therefore, the design of distributed storage, retri... Read More about Jabber-based cross-domain efficient and privacy-ensuring context management framework..

Evolution pattern for service evolution in clouds. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2012). Evolution pattern for service evolution in clouds. In The 7th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2012)

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution pat... Read More about Evolution pattern for service evolution in clouds..

Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era. (2012)
Book
Yang, H., & Liu, X. (2012). Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era. IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0897-9

With the rapid development of computing hardware, high-speed network, web programming, distributed and parallel computing, and other technologies, cloud computing has recently emerged as a commercial reality. Software Reuse in the Emerging Cloud Comp... Read More about Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era..

Dynamic evolution of service architecture in mobile cloud applications. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, H., Sun, J., & Liu, X. (2012). Dynamic evolution of service architecture in mobile cloud applications. In F. Leymann, I. Ivanov, M. van Sinderen, & T. Shan (Eds.), CLOSER 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and

A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, H., Sun, J., & Liu, X. (2012). A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL. In Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (61-69). https://doi.org/10.1109/APSCC.2012.29

With the rapid increase of Web Service applications, the reliability of web service and service composition has drawn particular attention from researchers and industries. Many methods for testing and verifying the reliability have been discussed, ho... Read More about A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL..

Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Zhao, H. (2012). Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology. In 6th IEEE International Workshop Quality-Oriented Reuse of Software (IEEE QUORS’12) (328-333). https://doi.org/10.1109/compsacw.2012.66

Cloud Computing introduces a revolutionary paradigm of computing to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), by provisioning various types of computational resources and applications as on-demand services. While presenting cloud services semantically usi... Read More about Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology.

Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2012). Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware. In Proceedings of Internetware'12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2430475.2430492

Along with the green attentions and efforts on energy efficiency of computer hardware and embedded systems, software relevant sustainability issues are becoming increasingly focused, as a part of Green Information Technology (GIT). Undoubtedly, softw... Read More about Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware..

Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools. (2011)
Book
Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2011). Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools. IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-735-7

Recently, rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software systems are emerging, among which service based systems, cloud computing, pe... Read More about Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools..

Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., Smith, S., & Zhao, H. (2011). Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications. In 2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW), (351-355). ht

Protecting user's privacy is one of the main concerns for the deployment of pervasive computing systems in the real world. In pervasive environments, the user context information is naturally distributed among different spatial or logical domains. Ma... Read More about Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications.

An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments (2011)
Journal Article
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2012). An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16(6), 741-755. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-011-0422-0

In pervasive environments, context management systems are expected to administrate large volume of contextual information that is captured from spatial to nonspatial elements. Research in context-aware computing produced a number of middleware system... Read More about An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments.

Recognize contextual situation in pervasive environments using process mining techniques (2010)
Journal Article
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2011). Recognize contextual situation in pervasive environments using process mining techniques. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-010-0038-7

Research in pervasive computing and ambience intelligence aims to enable users to interact with the environment in a context-aware way. To achieve this, a complex set of features describing different aspects of the environment has to be captured and... Read More about Recognize contextual situation in pervasive environments using process mining techniques.