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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)
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010). Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies (WI-IAT 2010) (611-614). https://doi.org/10.1109/wi-iat.2010.25

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)
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010). Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes. In Proceedings of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’10) (219-226). https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2010.16

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.

CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010). CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications. In CICIS'10 Proceedings (209-216). https://doi.org/10.1109/cisis.2010.21

In a pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic context model. Many different approaches to modeling the context exist, but... Read More about CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications.

A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2009). A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems. In Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference (249-254). https://doi.org/10.1109/compsac.2009.142

The evolving concepts of mobile computing, context-awareness, and ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing user's experience of services. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to provide an overview of recent developments and implementations... Read More about A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems.

A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Li, C., Liu, X., & Kennedy, J. (2009). A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval. In S. Abrahão, J. Verner, T. Jiang, A. Kiumi, T. Kim, & D. Ślęzak (Eds.), Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2009 (50-60). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10619-4_7

Despite the success that Component-Based Development has achieved so far, component mismatch remains as a major hurdle for wider and smoother component reuse due to the lack of effective and automated approaches to component specification and retriev... Read More about A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval.

A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., & Ye, H. (2008). A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses. In J. Lee, D. Liang, & Y. C. Cheng (Eds.), The Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (281-286). https://doi.org/10.1109/sose.2008.14

Electronic commerce is fast expanding all over the world. Currently most B2C (business to customer) electronic commerce focuses on retailing and other online services, such as online banking. Compared with large-scale enterprises and organizations, s... Read More about A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses.

Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation (2008)
Journal Article
Feng, Y., Liu, X., Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008). Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. IET Software, 2(2), 149. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen%3A20070049

As a solution to eliminating component mismatches, a generative aspect- oriented approach to component adaptation is presented. The approach enjoys high level of automation and capability of deep level adaptation, which is achieved in an aspect-orien... Read More about Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation.

Semantics-Based Component Repository: State of Arts and a Calculation Rating Factor-based Framework. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Li, C., Liu, X., & Kennedy, J. (2008). Semantics-Based Component Repository: State of Arts and a Calculation Rating Factor-based Framework. In Proceedings of Computer Software and Applications Conference (751-756). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.40

Nowadays, Component-Based Development (CBD) has been widely used in software engineering. As a core activity in the CBD process, component retrieval has attracted extensive research attention. Despite the research efforts so far, one major problem st... Read More about Semantics-Based Component Repository: State of Arts and a Calculation Rating Factor-based Framework..

A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (2008). A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks. In 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting

Wireless mesh networks, also known as “community wireless networks”, have been attracting much attention due to its promising technology. It is becoming a major avenue for the fourth generation of wireless mobility. This is due to the revaluation of... Read More about A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks..

Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation (2008)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008). Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 31(1/2), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2008.017721

When building service oriented systems, it is often the case that existing web services do not perfectly match user requirements in target systems. To achieve smooth integration and high reusability of web services, mechanisms to support automated ev... Read More about Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation.

Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Zhou, S., & Liu, X. (2007). Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old. . https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.176

This discussion concerns ?metrics?. More specifically, we discuss quantitative metrics for evaluating Internet applications: what should we quantify, monitor and analyse in order to characterise, evaluate and develop Internet applications based on re... Read More about Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old..

A product line based aspect-oriented generative unit testing approach to building quality components (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Feng, Y., Liu, X., & Kerridge, J. (2007). A product line based aspect-oriented generative unit testing approach to building quality components. In 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) (403-408). https://doi.org/10.1109/compsac.2007.35

The quality of component-based systems highly depends on how effectively testing is carried out. To achieve the maximal testing effectiveness, this paper presents a product line based aspect oriented approach to unit testing. The aspect product l... Read More about A product line based aspect-oriented generative unit testing approach to building quality components.

Achieving dependable component-based systems through generative aspect oriented component adaptation. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2006). Achieving dependable component-based systems through generative aspect oriented component adaptation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (45-48). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2006.106

Mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applications are often inevitable and have been a major hurdle of component reusability and smooth composition. Although component adaptation has acted as a key... Read More about Achieving dependable component-based systems through generative aspect oriented component adaptation..