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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, July). Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach

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..

A unified approach for the dynamic evolution of context-aware services. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2012, January). A unified approach for the dynamic evolution of context-aware services. Presented at International Conference on Innovations in Computers, Information and Communication - ICICIC 2012

Evolution pattern for service evolution in clouds. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2012, December). Evolution pattern for service evolution in clouds

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..

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, December). A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL

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, July). Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology. Presented at 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops

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, October). Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware. Presented at Fourth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware

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..

Quality Attributes Suggestion in Component Retrieval. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, C., Liu, X., & Kennedy, J. (2011, December). Quality Attributes Suggestion in Component Retrieval. Presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering

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, July). Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications. Presented at 2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops

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.

Ontology-based quality attributes prediction in component-based development (2010)
Journal Article
Li, C., Pooley, R., & Liu, X. (2010). Ontology-based quality attributes prediction in component-based development. International journal of computer science & information technology, 2, 12-29. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijcsit.2010.2502

Despite the success that Component-Based Development (CBD) has achieved so far, component mismatch remains as a big obstacle for wider and smoother component reuse. Mismatch refers that the selected component does not satisfy the functional requireme... Read More about Ontology-based quality attributes prediction in component-based development.

Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010, August). Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications. Presented at 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Context-aware computing is widely accepted as a promising paradigm to enable seamless computing. Several middlewares and ontology-based models for describing context information have been developed in order to support context-aware applications. Howe... Read More about Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications.

Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010, July). Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes. Presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Web Services

Context-awareness and adaptability are important and desirable properties of service-based processes designed to provide personalized services. Most of the existing approaches focus on the adaptation at the process instance level [1] which involves e... Read More about Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes.