Dr. Dong Yuan (袁栋)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

SUCCESS - Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems
Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn,
Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia

Email: dyuan@swin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9214 8451    Fax: +61 3 9819 0823
Office: EN403, EN Building, Hawthorn Campus
URL: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/dyuan/

Social Activities        Research Experiences        Awards        Publications        Personal Page      

    Dong Yuan is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests include: Parallel and Distributed Computing; Cloud and Grid Computing; Data Management; Workflow Technology; Scientific Applications and E-Science; Service Computing and BPM.

Education Background

• PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Apirl 2012.
• Master of Engineering (M. Eng.) in Computer Software Theory, Shandong University (SDU), 2008
• Visiting Study, Korea University (KU), 2007.02-2007.06
• Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University (SDU), 2005

Research Experiences

Research project:

• Cost effective storage of massive intermediate data in cloud computing applications (Funding: ARC DP110101340, Duration 2011-2013)
• Novel cloud computing based on workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances (Funding: ARC LP0990393, Duration: 2010-2012)
• SwinDeW-C: cloud workflow system in cloud computing environment (Funding: Swinburne, Duration: commenced in 2008)
• SmartFlow: intelligent business process model in web service environment, Research project sponsored by National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC)

Internship experience:

• R&D Work, Shandong Dareway Software Co., LTD, China, 2006.07-2007.02
• System Programmer, Shanda Luneng Information Technology Co., LTD, China, 2005.06-2005.08

Conferences PCs:

• PC member, the 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology & Management (ICISTM 2011)
• PC member, the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2011)

Conferences Attended: ICSoC'08, ACPYS'09(ppt), IPDPS'10(ppt), CLOUD2011(ppt)

Social Activities

• Secretary General of VACPS Executive Committee (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), 2012 to date
• Member of VACPS Executive Committee (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), 2011
• PC Co-Chair (ICT/EE Session),  the 5th Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop (ACPYS2011), the University of Melbourne, November 12, 2011.
• Volunteer, 2010, the 3rd Australia-China Joint Symposium On Science, Technology and Education, http://www.focsa.org.au/
• Postgraduate Students Representative, 2009.12-2010.12, Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
• Member of VACPS (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), 2008-2009, http://www.melcnphd.org/
• Member of SwinCSSA (Swinburne Chinese Students and Scholars Association), 2008 to date, http://swincssa.spaces.live.com/

Awards and Scholarships

• 2010 CHINESE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS ABROAD (2010年"国家优秀自费留学生奖学金"), 2010, http://www.csc.edu.cn/News/651f53503dff4e698c627431d891d53b.shtml
• The Third Best Presentation Award, 4th Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop, 2010
• Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Awards (SUPRA), 2008-2011
• Research Achievements Scholarship of Shandong University, 2007
• First Class in Photo Contest of Graduate Students in Shandong University, 2006
• Shandong University Third Class Scholarship, 2004
• Outstanding Student Leaders of Shandong University, 2003
• Social Work Scholarship of Shandong University, 2002
• Prize of Activist in Social Activities of Shandong University for three years, 2001-2003

Selected Refereed Publications

Journals:

1. G. Zhang, Y. Yang, D. Yuan and J. Chen, A Trust-based Noise Injection Strategy for Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing. Software: Practice and Experience, 42(4), pp. 431-445, Apr. 2012.
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, Elsevier, vol. 84(3), pp. 354-376, 2011.
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 (pdf), Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, vol. 84(3), pp. 492-509, 2011.
4. Z. Wu, X. Liu. Z. Ni, D. Yuan, Y. Yang, A Market‑Oriented Hierarchical Scheduling Strategy in Cloud Workflow Systems (pdf), Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0578-4)
5. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, On‑demand Minimum Cost Benchmarking for Intermediate Datasets Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems (pdf), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, vol. 71(2), pp. 316-332, 2011.
6. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, G. Zhang, J. Chen, A Data Dependency Based Strategy for Intermediate Data Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems (pdf), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1636)
7. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, A Data Placement Strategy in Scientific Cloud Workflows (pdf), Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, vol. 26(8), pp. 1200-1214, 2010.
8. 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 (pdf), International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Sage, vol. 24(4), pp. 445-456, 2010.

Conferences:

1. W. Li, Y. Yang, J. Chen and D. Yuan, A Cost-Effective Mechanism for Cloud Data Reliability Management based on Proactive Replica Checking (pdf). in Proc. of 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2012), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012 (accepted on Jan. 31, 2012).
2. X. Liu, Y. Yang, D. Cao, D. Yuan, J. Chen, Managing Large Numbers of Business Processes with Cloud Workflow Systems, in Proc. of 10th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2012), Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 2012 (to appear).
3. W. Li, Y. Yang and D. Yuan, A Novel Cost-effective Dynamic Data Replication Strategy for Reliability in Cloud Data Centres. in Proc. of International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2011 (to appear).
4. X. Liu, Y. Yang, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, W. Li and D. Cao, A Generic QoS Framework for Cloud Workflow Systems. in Proc. of International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2011 (to appear).
5. K. Deng, K. Ren, J. Song and D. Yuan, A Weighted K-Means Clustering based Coscheduling Strategy towards Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflows in Collaborative Cloud Environments. in Proc. of International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2011 (to appear).
6. K. Deng, K. Ren, J. Song, D. Yuan and J. Chen, Graph-Cut Based Coscheduling Strategy towards Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflows in Collaborative Cloud Environments, Proc. of 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2011), Accepted.
7. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu and J. Chen, A Local-Optimisation based Strategy for Cost-Effective Datasets Storage of Scientific Applications in the Cloud (pdf), Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (Cloud2011), Washington DC, USA, July 4-9, 2011.
8. 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. of 16th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS2010), Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010.
9. 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, 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCgrid10), May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
10. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, A Cost-Effective Strategy for Intermediate Data Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems (pdf), Proc. of 24th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS10), Atlanta, USA, Apr. 2010.
11. 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 (pdf), Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science08), pages 374-375, Indianapolis, USA, Dec. 2008.
12. D. Yuan, H. Wang, A Process-Semantic Repository for Automatic Workflow Modeling in Web Service Environment, Proc. of 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD07), Melbourne, Australia, 2007.
13. D. Yuan, M. Du, H. Wang, L. Cui, Automatic Generation of Web Service Workflow Using A Probability Based Process-Semantic Repository,  Proc. of APWeb/WAIM 2007 Workshops, Springer LNCS 4537, pp. 504–509, 2007.

Books:

1. X. Liu, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, W. Li, D. Cao, Q. He, J. Chen, Y. Yang, The Design of Cloud Workflow Systems, Springer, 97 pages, 2012. (ISBN: 978-1-4614-1933-4) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1933-4).

Book Chapters:

1. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, Chapter 6. Computation and Storage Trade-Off for Cost-effectively Storing Scientific Datasets in the Cloud, Handbook of Data Intensive Computing, to be published by Springer in 2011.
2. X. Liu, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, J. Chen, Y. Yang, Chapter 13. SwinDeW-C: A Peer-to-Peer Based Cloud Workflow System (pdf), Handbook of Cloud Computing, Springer, pp. 309-332, 2010.

Other Publications:

1. D. Yuan, Data Management in Cloud Workflow Systems (ppt), Proc. of 2009 Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 2009.

You can also find my publications at Swinburne Research Bank.

 For more publications of Workflow Technology Team led by Prof. Yun Yang, you can visit Publications. For more information, you can visit www.swinflow.org.