Dr. Chengfei Liu

Associate Professor

Office:

EN506b

Phone: 

+61 3 9214 5035

Fax:

+61 3 9819 0823

E-mail:

cliu@swin.edu.au

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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, VIC3122
Australia

 

 

 

 

 

Research Scholarships Available

     PhD students are sought to carry out research in the areas of XML data integration, advanced database systems, workflows, and transaction management for collaborative business processes. Scholarships are available from Swinburne Research Scholarships plus fee exemption for both Australian and international students, with partial support from my current ARC Discovery Projects. For further information and application forms, please contact me.

 

Dr. Chengfei Liu joined the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at the Swinburne University of Technology as an associate professor in July 2004. He is currently the leader of Web and Data Engineering (WDE) research program and the coordinator of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) research theme in the Swinburne Centre for Information Technology Research (CITR). From 2000 to June 2004, he was a senior lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Science at the University of South Australia. From 1998 to 1999, he was a lecturer in the School of Computing Sciences at University of Technology, Sydney. From 1995 to 1997, he was a senior research scientist in the Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) located in the University of Queensland. From 1989 to 1994, and 1988 to 1989, he was an associate professor and a lecturer in Computer Science Department at East China University of Science and Technology, respectively. From January to June 2007, he was a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From January to March 2003, he was a visiting professor at the University of Aizu, Japan. From July 2001 to February 2002, he was a visiting scientist at IBM Silicon Valley Lab. Dr. Chengfei Liu obtained his PhD, MSc, and BSc all in Computer Science from the Nanjing University in 1988, 1985, 1983, respectively.  He is a member of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII).

 

Teaching Areas
Current Research Grants and Interests 
Recent Refereed Publications
Current Professional Services

Teaching Areas

o        Web Application Development – 2007S2, 2008S1

o        XML Technologies – 2004S2, 2005S1, 2005S2, 2006S1, 2006S2, 2006S3

o        Object-oriented Data Modeling – 2002S2, 2003S2, 2004S1

o        Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems 1 (Workflow Management) – 2003S2

o        Database Technology - 2002S2

o        Database M - 2002S1

o        Java Programming Lab - 2001S1

o        User Interface - 2000S2

o        Advanced Database Design - 2000S1, 2001S1

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Current Research Grants 

o        DP0878405 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC)
XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems
$255 K for 2008-2010
Investigators: A/Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), Dr. J. Liu (UniSA), Prof. J. Yu (Chinese U. HK, China)

o        LP06696607 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
An Organisation Oriented Framework for Collaborative Business Processes
$298 K for July 2006-June 2009
 Investigators: A/Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), Prof. Y. Yang (Swinburne), Dr. W. Sadiq (SAP Australia)

o        DP0557572 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC)
A Framework for Supporting Consistent and Reliable Collaborative Business Transactions
$218 K for 2005 - 2007
Investigators: A/Prof. Y. Zhang (Victoria U), A/Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), A/Prof. J. Yang (Macqurie), Prof. M. Papazoglou (Tilbury, Netherlands)

o        DP0559202 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC)
Constraints in XML Schema Integration
$253 K for 2005 – 2007
Investigators: Dr. J. Liu (UniSA), A/Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), A/Prof. M. Vincent (UniSA)

Current Research Interests

o        Workflows (Transactional Workflows, Evolution, Web Service based WfMSs)

o        XML (XML Document Design, Mapping to RDBs, Integration, Stream)

o        Advanced Transaction Models and Web Service Transactions

o        Advanced Database Systems (OO, Distributed, Multidatabases, Spatial, Data Replication)

 


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Refereed Publications

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o        J. Xu, C. Liu and X. Zhao, Resource Allocation vs. Business Process Improvement: How They Impact on Each Other? To appear in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2008), September 2008, Milan, Italy.

o        J. Wang, J. Yu, C. Liu and R. Zhou, Transforming tree patterns under DTD constraints for efficient query containment test, to appear in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2008), September 2008, Turin, Italy.

o        R. Zhou, C. Liu, J. Li, and J. Wang, Filtering Techniques for Rewriting XPath Queries Using Views, to appear in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), September 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

o        H. Huang, C. Liu, and X. Zhou, Computing Relaxed Answers on RDF Databases, to appear in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), September 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

o        J. Wang, J. Yu, and C. Liu, Contained XPATH Query Rewritings Using Views Revisited, to appear in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), September 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

o        C. Liu and X. Zhao, Towards flexible compensation for business transactions in Web service environment, to appear in Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 2008.

o        K. Nguyen, J. Cao and C. Liu, Semantic-Enabled Organisation of Web Services, Proceedings of APWeb’08, pp. 511-521, April 2008, Shengyang, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4976, Springer.

o        J. Tian, J. Liu, W. Pan, M. Vincent and C. Liu, Performance Analysis and Improvement for Transformation Operators in XML Data Integration, Proceedings of APWeb’08, pp. 214-226, April 2008, Shengyang, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4976, Springer.

o        R. Zhou, C. Liu and J. Li, Transformation from Relational Schema to XML Schema, to appear in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008), pp. 4-18, March 2008, New Delhi, India. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4947, Springer.

o        J. Li, C. Liu, J. Yu and R. Zhou, Efficient Top-k Search across Heterogeneous XML Data Sources, to appear in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008), pp. 314-329, March 2008, New Delhi, India. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4947, Springer.

o        C. Yang, C. Liu, J. Li, J. Yu and J. Wang, Semantics based Buffer Reduction for Queries over XML Data Streams, Proceedings of the 19th  Australasian Database Conference (ADC'08), pp.145-153, January, 2008, Wollongong, Australia (best paper award and student paper award).

o        J. Li, C. Liu, J. Yu, J. Liu, G. Wang and C. Yang, Computing Structural Similarity of Source XML Schemas against Domain XML Schema, Proceedings of the 19th  Australasian Database Conference (ADC'08), pp.155-164, January, 2008, Wollongong, Australia.

o        C. Liu and Y. Zhang, Distributed databases, Wiley's Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Wiley Publishers, 2008.

o        C. Liu, Q. Li, Y. Zhang, M. Indulska and X. Zhao, Introduction to the First Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007), Proceedings of the International Workshops on Business Process Management, pp.181-184, September 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4928, Springer.

o        J. Wang, J. Yu and C. Liu, On Tree Pattern Query Rewriting Using Views, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE’07), pp.1-12, December 2007, Nancy, France. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4831, Springer  (Yahiko Kambayashi best paper award).

o        X. Zhao and C. Liu, Version Management in the Business Process Change Context, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), pp.198-213, Sept. 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4714, Springer.

o        X. Zhao, C. Liu, Y. Yang and W. Sadiq, Handling Instance Correspondence in Inter-Organisational Workflows, Proc. of 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07), June 2007, Trondheim, Norway. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4495, Springer.

o        L. Li , C. Liu and J. Wang, Deriving Transactional Properties of Composite Web Services, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), pp. 631-638, July 2007, Salt Lake City, USA.

o        X. Zhao, C. Liu, and Y. Yang, Specifying Instance Correspondence in Collaborative Business Processes. Proceedings of OTM Workshops (1) 2006: 1-2, the 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS’06), Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2006, Montpellier, France. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4277 Springer.

o        Z. Yang and C. Liu, Implementing a Flexible Compensation Mechanism for Business Processes in Web Service Environment, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006). pp. 753-760, September 2006, Chicago, USA.

o        J. Liu, H. Park, M. Vincent and C. Liu, A Formalization of XML Restructuring Operations, Proceedings of ASWC’06. pp. 126-132. September 2006, Beijing, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4185 Springer.

o        X. Zhao and C. Liu, Tracking over Collaborative Business Processes, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), pp. 33-48, September 2006, Vienna, Austria. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4102, Springer.

o        C. Liu and J. Li, Designing Quality XML Schemas from E-R Diagrams, Proceedings of WAIM’06. pp. 510-521, June 2006, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4016, Springer.

o        Z. Yang and C. Liu, On the Development of a Multiple-Compensation Mechanism for Business Transactions, Proceedings of WAIM’06. pp. 583-594, June 2006, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4016, Springer

o        W. Chang, M. Guo, M. Ho and C. Liu, Fast Parallel Bio-molecular Solutions: the Set-basis Problem, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2(1/2):72-80, 2006.

o        C. Liu, M. Vincent and J. Liu, Constraint Preserving Transformation from Relational Schema to XML Schema, World Wide Web Journal 9(1):93-110, March 2006.

o        X. Zhao and C. Liu, Supporting Relative Workflows with Web Services, Proceedings of APWeb'06, pp. 680-691, January, 2006, Harbin, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3841, Springer 2006.

o        X. Zhao, C. Liu and Y. Yang, Supporting Virtual Organisation Alliances with Relative Workflows, Proceedings of APCCM 2006, pp. 115-124, January 2006, Hobart, Australia.

o        X. Zhao, C. Liu and Y. Yang, An Organisational Perspective on Collaborative Business Processes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005), pp.17-31, September 2005, Nancy, France. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3649, Springer.

o        Y. Zhang, J. Yang and C. Liu, Collaborative Business Transactions Management: Issues and Challenges, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), IEEE Computer Society, July 2005, Orlando, USA

o        X. Zhao and C. Liu, Process Integration based on Interoperability across Multiple Workflow Domains, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management 3(2): pp.199-213, 2005.

o        J. Liu, M. Vincent, C. Liu and M. Mohania, Checking Multivalued Dependencies in XML, Proceedings of APWeb'05, pp. 320-332, March, 2005, Shanghai, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3399, Springer 2005.

o        M. Vincent, J. Liu and C. Liu, Strong Functional Dependencies and a Redundancy Free Normal Form for XML, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 29(3): 445-462, September 2004.

o        X. Zhao, C. Liu and Y. Yang, A Web Services Based Architecture for Workflow Management Systems, Proceedings of DEXA’04. pp. 34-43, August/September 2004, Zaragoza, Spain. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3180, Springer.

o        M. Vincent, J. Liu and C. Liu, Mapping Normalized Relations to Normalized XML Documents, Proceedings of WAIM’04. pp. 346-356, July 2004, Dalian, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3129, Springer.

o        H. Li, C. Liu and M. Orlowska, Extended Algebra and Calculus for Object-Relational Databases, Asian Journal of Information Technology 3(5): 386-399, May 2004.

o        M. Vincent, M. Schrefl, J. Liu, C. Liu and S. Dogen, Generalized Inclusion Dependencies in XML, Proceedings of APWeb'04, pp. 224-233, April, 2004, Hangzhou, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3007, Springer 2004.

o        M. Guo, J. Cao, W. Chang, L. Li and C. Liu, Effective OpenMP Extensions for Irregular Applications on Cluster Environments, Proceedings of GCC’03, pp. 97-104, December 2003, Shanghai, China, Revised Papers, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3033, Springer 2004.

o        C. Liu, B. Lindsay, S. Bourbonnais, E. Hamel, J. Stankiewitz and T. Truong, Capturing Global Transactions from Multiple Recovery Log Files in a Partitioned Database System, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’03), pp. 987-996, 9-12 September 2003, Berlin, Germany.

o        C. Liu, M. Vincent, J. Liu and M. Guo. A Virtual XML Database Engine for Relational Databases, Proceedings of the VLDB XML Data Database Symposium (XSYM’03), pp. 37-51, 8 September 2003, Berlin, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2824, Springer.

o        M. Vincent, J. Liu and C. Liu. A Redundancy Free 4NF for XML, Proceedings of the VLDB XML Data Database Symposium (XSYM’03), pp. 254-266, 8 September 2003, Berlin, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2824, Springer.

o        C. Liu, X. Lin, M. Orlowska, and X. Zhou. Confirmation: Increasing Resource Availability in Transactional Workflows, Information Sciences 153:37-53, July 2003.

o        M. Vincent, J. Liu and C. Liu, Redundancy Free Mapping from Relations to XML, Proceedings of  WAIM’03. pp. 55-67, August 2003, Chengdu, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2762, Springer.

o        J. Liu, M. Vincent and C. Liu. Local XML Functional Dependencies, Proceedings of the fifth ACM international workshop on Web information and data management (WIDM’03), pp. 23-28, November, 2003, New Orleans, USA.

o        J. Liu, M. Vincent and C. Liu, Functional Dependencies, from Relational to XML, Proceedings of the PSI’03. pp. 319-32, 9-12 July 2003. Novosibirsk, Russia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2890, pp. 530-537, Springer.

o        C. Liu, M. Guo and J. Liu, Accessing Relational Databases via XML Schema, Proceedings of  CAiSE’03 Forum, pp. 17-20, June 2003, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria.

o        C. Liu, J. Liu and M. Guo. On Transformation to Redundancy Free XML Schema from Relational Database Schema, Proceedings of APWeb'03, pp. 35-46, April, 2003, Xi'an, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2642, Springer.

o        J. Liu and C. Liu. A Declarative Way of Extracting XML Data in XSL, Proceedings of ADBIS'02, pp. 374-387, Sept, 2002, Bratislava, Slovakia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2435, Springer.

o        M. Guo, Z. Liu, C. Liu, and L. Li. Reducing Communication Cost for Parallelizing Irregular Scientific Codes, Proceedings of PARA'02, pp. 203-216, June 2002, Espoo, Finland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2367, Springer.

o        X. Lin, X. Zhou, C. Liu, and X. Zhou. Efficiently Computing Weighted Proximity Relationships in Spatial Databases, Proceedings of WAIM'01, pp. 279-290, July 2001, Xi'an, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2118, Springer.

o        C. Liu, M. Orlowska, X. Liu, X. Zhou. Improving Backward Recovery in Workflow Systems, Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'01), pp. 276-283, April 2001, Hong Kong, SAR, China.

o        C. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Cao and X. Lin. On Incremental Global Update Support  in Cooperative Database Systems. Informatica 24(1): 27-32, 2000.

o        C. Liu, X. Lin, X. Zhou and M.Orlowska. Repository Support for Workflow Management Systems. Journal of Applied Systems Studies 1(3), 2000.

o        X. Lin, X. Zhou and C. Liu. Efficiently Computation of a Proximity Matching in Spatial Databases. Data & Knowledge Engineering 33(1): 85-102, 2000.

o        X. Zhou, X. Lin, C. Liu and J. Cao. Spatial Query Processing Using Generalized Filter. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 9(1-2): 77-92, 2000.

o        H.Li, C.Liu and M.Orlowska. Object-Relational Query Translation on a Heterogeneous Database Architecture. International Journal of Information Technology 5(1): 114-148, 1999.

o        C. Liu, X. Lin, X. Zhou and M.Orlowska,. Building a Repository for Workflow Systems. Proceedings of TOOLS-31 Asia'99, pp. 348-357. September 1999, Nanjing, China.

o        X. Lin, C. Liu, Y. Zhang and X. Zhou. Efficiently Computing Frequent Tree-Like Topology Patterns in a Web Environment. Proceedings of TOOLS-31 Asia'99, pp. 440-447, pp. 348-357. September 1999, Nanjing, China.

o        C. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Cao and X. Lin. Global Transaction Management in a Cooperative Database System. Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems (DWACOS'99), pp. 73-78. August 1999, Baden-Baden, Germany (best paper award).

o        X. Lin, X. Zhou and C. Liu. Efficiently Matching Proximity Relationship in Spatial Databases.  Proceedings of SSD'99, pp. 188-206. July 1999, Hong Kong, China.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1651, Springer.

o        C. Liu, M.Orlowska, X. Lin and X. Zhou. Confirmation: A Solution to Non-compensatability Problem in Workflow Systems. Proceedings of ICDE'99, pp. 102. March 1999, Sydney, Australia.

o        X. Zhou, Y. Zhang, X. Lin and C. Liu. On the Optimization of Complex Spatial Queries. Proceedings of CODAS'99, pp. 127-138. March 1999, Wollongong, Australia.

o        H. Li, M. Orlowska and C. Liu. A Normal Form on Functional Dependencies in Object-Oriented Data Models. Proceedings of ADC'99, pp. 77-88. January 1999, Auckland, New Zealand.

o        C. Liu, X. Zhou and M. Orlowska. Issues in Workflow and Web-based Workflow Systems. Proceedings of 1998 Asia-Pacific Web Conference, pp. 275-280. September 1998, Beijing, China.

o        C.Liu, M.Orlowska and H.Li. Automating Handover in a Dynamic Workflow Environment. Proceedings of 10th International Conference, CAiSE'98, pp. 158-171. June 1998, Pisa, Italy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1413, Springer.

o        C.Liu, H.Li and M.Orlowska. Supporting Update Propagation in Object-Oriented Databases. Data & Knowledge Engineering 26(1): 99-115, 1998.

o        H.Li, C. Liu and M.Orlowska. A Query System for Object-Relational Databases. Proceedings of ADC'98, pp. 39-50. February 1998, Perth, Australia, Springer.

o        C.Liu, M.Orlowska and H.Li. Realizing Object-Relational Databases by Mixing Tables with Objects. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, pp. 335-346. November 1997, Brisbane, Australia, Springer.

o        M.Orlowska, H.Li and C.Liu. On Integration of Relational and Object-Oriented Database Systems. Proceedings of SOFSEM'97, pp. 295-312. November 1997, Milovy, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1338, Springer.

o        H. Wing, C.Liu and R. Colomb. A Bottom-up Approach to Distributed Workflow. Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, pp. 157-173. April 1997, Brisbane, Australia.

o        D. Kuo, M. Lawley, C. Liu and M. Orlowska. A General Model for Nested Transactional Workflows. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures, pp. 18-35. September 1996, Goa, India.