Dr. Xiao LIU - Faculty of Information and Communication ...

CV: Xiao LIU xliu@swin.edu.au
Dr. Xiao LIU
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
E-mail: xliu@swin.edu.au, xliu.swin@gmail.com
Personal Page: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/xliu/
Office Phone: (+61) 3 9214 4758, Mobile: (+61) 413 855 424
Education:
June 2007 to December 2010: PhD in Software Engineering, Swinburne
University of Technology, Australia
September 2004 to May 2007: Master of Information Management and
Information System, Hefei University of Technology, China
September 2000 to July 2004: Bachelor of Information Management and
Information System, Hefei University of Technology, China
Employment:
December 2010 to Date: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Computing
and Engineering Software Systems, Swinburne University of Technology,
Australia
Research Interests:
Workflow Management and Applications in Grid (Service)/Cloud Computing
Environments
Scientific Workflow Management and Applications
Software Verification and Validation in Workflow Systems
QoS and Resource Scheduling in Distributed Computing Systems
Cloud Computing
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Research/Development Project Experiences:
Novel cloud computing based workflow technology for managing large numbers
of process instances (Funding: ARC Linkage Project LP0990393, Duration:
2010-2012), research team member.
Cost effective storage of massive intermediate data in cloud computing
applications (Funding: ARC Discovery Project DP110101340, Duration
2011-2013), research team member.
SwinDeW-A, Agent-based coordination and negotiation technologies for
decentralised service workflow management, (Funding: ARC Discovery Project
DP0663841; Duration: 2006-2008), research team member.
An organisation oriented framework for collaborative business processes
(Funding: ARC Linkage Project LP0669660; Partners: SAP; Duration:
2006-2009), research team member.
Research and Application of GIS/GPS based Logistic Information System,
Project sponsored by Department of Communications of Anhui Province, China,
2006-2007, leader of the research and development team.
Research and Development of Dynamic Project Management System based on
Intelligent Technology, Key Project sponsored by Department of Science and
Technology of Anhui Province, China, 2006-2007, member of the research and
development team.
Selected Refereed Publications:
Book Chapters:
1. X. Liu, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, J. Chen, Y. Yang, Chapter 13. SwinDeW-C: A
Peer-to-Peer Based Cloud Workflow System, Handbook of Cloud Computing,
pages 309-332, Springer, ISBN: 978-1-4419-6523-3, 2010.
Journal Articles:
1. X. Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Jiang and J. Chen, Preventing Temporal Violations in
Scientific Workflows: Where and How, IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering (IEEE TSE), in press, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/
TSE.2010.99, 2010. SCI: 3.75.
2. X. Liu, Z. Ni, D. Yuan, Y. Jiang, Z. Wu, J. Chen, Y. Yang, A Novel Statistical
Time-Series Pattern based Interval Forecasting Strategy for Activity Durations in
Workflow Systems, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol. 84, no. 3, pp.
354-376, 2011, SCI: 1.340.
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3. X. Liu, Z. Ni, Z. Wu, D. Yuan, J. Chen and Y. Yang, A Novel General Framework
for Automatic and Cost-Effective Handling of Recoverable Temporal Violations in
Scientific Workflow Systems, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol. 84, no.
3, pp. 492-509, 2011. SCI: 1.340.
4. X. Liu, Z. Ni, J. Chen, Y. Yang, A Probabilistic Strategy for Temporal Constraint
Management in Scientific Workflow Systems, Concurrency and Computation:
Practice and Experience (CCPE), in press, 2011. SCI: 1.79.
5. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu and J. Chen, On‐demand Minimum Cost Benchmarking
for Intermediate Datasets Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems. Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 316-332, 2011.
SCI: 1.135.
6. Z. Wu, X. Liu. Z. Ni, D, Yuan and Y. Yang, A Market‐Oriented Hierarchical
Scheduling Strategy in Cloud Workflow Systems, Journal of Supercomputing
(JSC), to appear (accepted on Sept. 7, 2010). SCI: 0.687.
7. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, G. Zhang, J. Chen, A Data Dependency Based Strategy
for Intermediate Data Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems,
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), in press,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.1636/pdf, 2010. SCI: 1.79.
8. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, A Data Placement Strategy in Cloud Scientific
Workflows, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), vol. 26, no. 6, Elsevier,
2010. SCI: 2.229.
9. K. Liu, H. Jin, J. Chen, X. Liu, D. Yuan, Y. Yang, A Compromised-Time-Cost
Scheduling Algorithm in SwinDeW-C for Instance-Intensive Cost-Constrained
Workflows on Cloud Computing Platform, International Journal of High
Performance Computing Applications (JHPCA), vol. 24, no. 4, pp.445-456. SCI:
1.274.
10. Y. Jiang, Y. Liu, X. Liu, S. Yang, Integrating classification capability and
reliability in associative classification: A β-stronger model, Expert Systems with
Applications (ESA), vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 3953-3961, 2009. SCI: 2.638.
11. Y. Liu, Y. Jiang, X. Liu, S. L. Yang, CSMC: a combination strategy for multi-class
classification based on multiple association rules, Knowledge-Based Systems
(KBS), vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 786-793, 2008. SCI: 1.103.
Conference Publications:
1. X. Liu, Z. Ni, Z. Wu, D. Yuan, J. Chen, Y. Yang, An Effective Framework of
Light-Weight Handling for Three-Level Fine-Grained Recoverable Temporal
Violations in Scientific Workflows, Proc. 16 th IEEE International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS2010), pp. 43-50, Shanghai, China,
December 7-11, 2010.
2. X. Liu, J. Chen, Z. Wu, Z. Ni, D. Yuan, Y. Yang, Handling Recoverable Temporal
Violations in Scientific Workflow Systems: A Workflow Rescheduling Based
Strategy, Proc. 10 th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and
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Grid Computing (CCGrid10), pp. 534-537, May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia.
3. X. Liu, Y. Yang, J. Chen, Q. Wang and M. Li, Achieving On-Time Delivery: A
Two-Stage Probabilistic Scheduling Strategy for Software Projects, Proc.
International Conference on Software Process (ICSP09), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Vol. 5543, pp. 317-329, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.
4. X. Liu, J. Chen and Y. Yang, A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal
Constraints in Scientific Workflows, Proc. 6 th International Conference on
Business Process Management (BPM2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 5240, pp. 180-195, Milan, Italy, Sept. 2008.
5. X. Liu, J. Chen, K. Liu and Y. Yang, Forecasting Duration Intervals of Scientific
Workflow Activities based on Time-Series Patterns, Proc. 4 th IEEE International
Conference on e-Science (e-Science08), pp. 23-30, Indianapolis, USA, Dec.
2008.
6. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu and J. Chen, A Cost-Effective Strategy for Intermediate
Data Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems. Proc. 24 th IEEE
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS10), Atlanta,
USA, Apr. 2010.
7. K. Ren, X. Liu, J. Chen, N. Xiao, J. Song, W. Zhang, A QSQL-based Efficient
Planning Algorithm for Fully-automated Service Composition in Dynamic
Service Environments, Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services
Computing (SCC08), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 8-11, 2008.
8. Z. Wu, Z. Ni, L. Gu, X. Liu, A Revised Discrete Particle Swarm Optimisation for
Cloud Workflow Scheduling, Proc. 2010 International Conference on
Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS2010), pp. 184-188, Nanning,
China,11-14 Dec. 2010.
9. Y. Yang, K. Liu, J. Chen, X. Liu, D. Yuan and H. Jin, An Algorithm in
SwinDeW-C for Scheduling Transaction-Intensive Cost-Constrained Cloud
Workflows, Proc. of 4 th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
(e-Science08), pp. 374-375, Indianapolis, USA, Dec. 2008.
10. Y. Jiang, Y. Liu, X. Liu, and J. Zhang, Constructing Associative Classifier Using
Rough Sets and Evidence Theory, Proc. 2007 International Conference on Rough
Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC 2007), pp.
263-271, Toronto, Canada, May 14-16, 2007.
11. Z. Ni, F. Li, S. Yang, X. Liu, W. Zhang, and Q. Luo, Attributes Reduction Based
on GA-CFS Method, Proc. APWeb/WAIM 2007, LNCS 4505, pp. 868-875, 2007.
12. J. Li, Z. Ni, X. Liu, H. Liu, Case-Base Maintenance Based on Multi-layer
Alternative-Covering Algorithm, Proc. 5 th International Conference on Machine
Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC06), Dalian, 13-16 August 2006.
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Other Publications:
1. X. Liu, Key Research Issues in Scientific Workflow Temporal Verification, Proc.
of 2008 Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2008.
2. X. Liu, Member of Editorial Board, ICT Session Co-Chair, Proc. of 2009
Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop,
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
3. X. Liu, Member of Editorial Board, Proc. of 2010 Victorian Chinese PhD
Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop, in conjunction with the 3 rd
Symposium for Chinese and Australian Scholars On Science, Technology and
Education, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2010.
4. X. Liu, Member of Editorial Board, 2010 CS3 PhD symposium, Swinburne
University of Technology, Australia, 2009.
Professional Service:
Conference Organisation:
Local Organisation Chair, Joint Conferences of CGC2011, SCA2011, DASC2011,
SEC2011, PICom 2011, 13 th -15 th December, 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
Session Chair, 16th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Systems (ICPADS2010), Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010.
Organisation Committee Member, the 3 rd Symposium for Chinese and Australian
Scholars on Science, Technology, Education: Cooperation and Development,
6 th -8 th October, 2010, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia,
http://www.focsa.org.au/ focsa-event-2010-forum.html.
Organisation Chair, Member of Editorial Board, 2010 Victorian Chinese PhD
Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop, in conjunction with the 3 rd
Symposium for Chinese and Australian Scholars on Science, Technology,
Education: Cooperation and Development, 6 th -8 th October, 2010, Melbourne
Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Organisation Chair, Member of Editorial Board, ICT Session Co-Chair, 2009
Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop, 24 th
October, 2009, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,
http://workshop.melcnphd. org/index.php/2009.
Organisation Committee, 2010 CS3 PhD symposium, Swinburne University of
Technology, Australia, http://sites.google.com/site/cs3wiki/phd-symposium-2010.
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Reviewer/External Reviewer:
Conferences: ICSE10 (NIER), AUSPDC10, BIS09, ICSP08, ICEIS08,
ISITAE2008, GSEM07.
Journals: IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Journal
of Supercomputing, Sensors.
Teaching and Tutoring Experience:
Tutoring for Web Programming HIT3323, FICT, Swinburne University of
Technology, Jan. 2011 ~ Feb. 2011.
Tutoring for PHP and MySQL HIT6323, FICT, Swinburne University of
Technology, Mar. 2008 ~ Jun. 2008.
Tutoring for senior undergraduate students: Graduation Course work of
Information System Development, School of Management, Hefei University of
Technology, Feb. 2006 ~ Jun. 2006.
Tutoring for senior undergraduate students: Bachelor Thesis, Department of
Information Management and Information System, Hefei University of
Technology, Feb. 2006 ~ Jun. 2006.
Tutoring for first year master students: Introduction to Geographic Information
System, Institute of Intelligent Management, Hefei University of Technology,
Dec. 2006 ~ Apr. 2007.
Social Organisations:
Executive Vice-President, 2010 to Date, VACPS (Victoria Association of Chinese
PhD Students and Young Scholars), http://www.melcnphd.org/.
Secretary General of Advisory Board, 2010 to Date, SwinCSSA (Swinburne
Chinese Students and Scholars Association), http://swincssa.spaces.live.com/.
President, 2008 to 2010, SwinCSSA (Swinburne Chinese Students and Scholars
Association), http://swincssa.spaces.live.com/.
Executive Committee Member, 2009 to Date, VACPS (Victoria Association of
Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), http://www.melcnphd.org/.
Executive Committee Member, 2008 to Date, VCSSA (Victorian Chinese
Students and Scholars Association), http://melbourne.china-consulate.org/chn/
jykj/xstt/.
Awards and Scholarships:
2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Aborad,
http://www.csc.edu.cn/Chuguo/5124eca1ce0847b1a211dabb13ee7b47.shtml.
2010 EII PhD School Travel Bursary, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing,
Service Computing & Social Networks, 23 November 2010 - 27 November 2010,
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The University of Queensland, http://eii.edu.au/phd-school-10.
Organisation Committee Excellence, the Third Symposium for Chinese and
Australian Scholars on Science, Technology and Education, 6 th -8 th October, 2010,
Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Organisation Committee Excellence, the Fourth Victorian Chinese PhD Students
and Young Scholars Research Workshop (FOCSA Symposium PhD Session),
2010.
Best Paper Runner-up, Centre for Complex Software Systems and Service (CS3)
PhD Symposium 2010, Swinburne University of Technology, 2010.
Best Organisation Award, the Melbourne Gala for 60th Anniversary of the
Founding of P. R. China, 2009.
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), Australia Government,
2007-2010.
Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Awards (SUPRA), Swinburne
University of Technology, 2007-2010.
Presentation Award, 2008 Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars
Research Workshop, Monash University, 2008.
Excellent Graduates, ANHUI Province, China, 2007.
Excellent Graduates, HFUT, 2007.
Excellent Student, HFUT, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Second Class Scholarship (Top10%), HFUT, 2001.
Third Class Scholarship (Top15%), HFUT, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Second Prize, GIS based Distributed Workflow System, 2006 Annual Research
Symposium for Postgraduate Students, HFUT, 2006.
Second Prize, GPS Vehicle Monitoring and Control System Based on
GIS-WebService, the 10 th "HuBinBei" Extracurricular Scientific and Technical
Demo Competition, HFUT, 2005.
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Referees:
Professor Yun Yang
Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Phone: +61 3 9214 8752
Fax: +61 3 9819 0823
E-mail: yyang@swin.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/yyang
Professor Chengfei Liu
Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Phone: +61 3 9214 5035
Fax: +61 3 9819 0823
E-mail: cliu@swin.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/cliu/
Dr. Jinjun Chen
Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Phone: +61 3 9214 8739
E-mail: jchen@swin.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/
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