Dr. Xiao Liu (刘晓)

Sessional Lecturer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Member of IEEE, ACS

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: xliu@swin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9214 4758
Fax: +61 3 9819 0823

Office: EN510C, EN Building, Hawthorn Campus
URL: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/xliu/

Social/Professional Activities        Research/Teaching Experience        Awards        Publications        Useful Links        Personal Page      

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Xiao Liu received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 2011. He received his Master and Bachelor degree from the School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2007 and 2004 respectively, all in Information Management and Information System. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre of Computing and Engineering Software System at Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests include workflow management systems, cloud computing, scientific workflow, business process management and quality of service.

*I am currently looking for an on-going or permanent academic position at the Lecturer/Assistant Professor level. CV (English, 中文简历)

What's New

• Social: On 18/03/2012, I was elected as the President of VACPS Executive Committee (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), http://haiwaihome.com/blog-2178-464.html.
•  Conference Organisation: PC Chair, the 5th Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop (ACPYS2011), the University of Melbourne, November 12, 2011. The workshop will feature in 10 main topics including various disciplines. Please find the call for paper here. The workshop program is now available at here.
• Projects: A new ARC Discovery Project has been granted to our group: DP110101340, Prof. Yun Yang, Dr Jinjun Chen, Prof. John Grundy, Project Title: Cost effective storage of massive intermediate data in cloud computing applications
• Journal: We got a paper accepted by Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, JPDC (A*), titled "On‑demand Minimum Cost Benchmarking for Intermediate Datasets Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems".
• Journal: We got a paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, TSE (A*), titled "Preventing Temporal Violations in Scientific Workflows: Where and How".
• Awards: Best PhD Thesis 2010, Faculty of ICT, Thesis Title: A novel probabilistic temporal framework and its strategies for cost effective delivery of high QoS in scientific cloud workflow systems.
• Media report: Swinburne PhD recipient to publish book, Swinburne Staff Bulletin, 18 August 2011, a media report on the book to be published by Morgan Kaufmann.

Education Background

• PhD, Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Supervisory Team: Prof. Yun Yang (Coordinate Supervisor), Prof. Chengfei Liu, Dr. Jinjun Chen, Jun. 2007 to Feb. 2011 (awarded on 24th Feb. 2011).
• Master of Management, System Management and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China, 2004-2007.
• Bachelor of Management, Information Management and Information System, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China, 2000-2004.
• Diploma (second major), Oral and Written English, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China, 2003-2004.

Academic/Social/Working Experiences                BACK TO TOP

Employment:

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level A6), Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Feb. 2012 to date
• Sessional Lecturer, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Dec. 2011 to Feb. 2012.
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level A5), Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Dec. 2010 to Dec. 2011.
• I have done the training for the following courses as requests for higher education staff: ESOS Compliance, Whistleblower Protection Training, OH&S Training, Privacy Compliance, EEO Training

Associations:

• NEW! President, 2012 to Date, VACPS (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), http://www.melcnphd.org/
• Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, Australian Computer Society
• Executive Vice-President, 2010 to Date, VACPS (Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars), http://www.melcnphd.org/
• President, 2008 to 2010, SwinCSSA (Swinburne Chinese Students and Scholars Association), http://swincssa.spaces.live.com/.
• Executive Committee Member, 2008 to 2010, VCSSA (Victorian Chinese Students and Scholars Association), http://melbourne.china-consulate.org/chn/jykj/xstt/
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Conference Organisation:

• NEW! PC Chair, the 5th Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop (ACPYS2011), the University of Melbourne, November 12, 2011.The workshop will feature in 10 main topics including Architecture and Civil Engineering, Biomedical and Health Science, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Material Science and Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Science, Business, Finance and Economics, Management, Law and Sciences, Education and Social Sciences. Please see the call for paper here.
• Workshop co-chair, DASC2011, Local organisation, SCA2011, DASC2011, EmbeddedCom2011, PICom2011, co-located with CGC2011 (2011 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing), December 12 -14, 2011, Sydney, Australia.  Please visit respective conference websites for call for paper and submission guidelines.

• Publicity Chair, DASC2011 and EmbeddedCom2011.
• Session Chair, 2011 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), December 12 -14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. 
• Session Chair, 16th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS2010), Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010.
• Organisation Committee Member, The Third Symposium for Chinese and Australian Scholars On Science, Technology, Education: Cooperation and Development (FOCSA10), 6th -8th October, 2010, Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia, http://www.focsa.org.au/focsa-event-2010-forum.html, in conjunction with the Fourth Victorian Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Research Workshop (FOCSA Poster Session).
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Conference and Journal PC/Reviewer: More...

• Editorial Board:
•     ISRN Software Engineering, http://www.hindawi.com/isrn/se/
• Reviewer for Journals: 
•     IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
•     Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
•     World Wide Web (WWWJ)
•     Journal of Grid Computing (JGC)
•     Journal of Supercomputing (TJS)
•     Sensors
• PC Member:
•     4th International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems, AP2PS 2012, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/AP2PS12.html
•     11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, SE2012, http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-780.html
•     5th  International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, BIFE2012, http://www.gip.hk/bife2012/index.htm
•     2012 IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics, ICCSSII 2012, http://www.iccsii.org/
•     6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2011, http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/fcst2011/
•     3rd International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems, AP2PS 2011, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/AP2PS11.html
•     2011 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, BIFE2011, http://imd.ccnu.edu.cn/bife2011/home.html 
• Reviewer for Conferences: ICSSP12, ICSE12, ICSE10 (NIER Track), AUSPDC10, BIS09, ICSP08, ICEIS08, ISITAE2008, GSEM07

Research/Development Projects:                BACK TO TOP

• NEW! Cost effective storage of massive intermediate data in cloud computing applications (Funding: ARC Discovery Project DP110101340, Duration 2011-2013).
• Novel cloud computing based on workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances (Funding: ARC LP0990393, Duration: 2010-2012). (I am currently involved in this project as a PostDoc)
• SwinDeW-A, Agent-based coordination and negotiation technologies for decentralised service workflow management, (Funding: ARC DP0663841; Partners: University of Wollongong; Duration: 2006-2008).
• An organisation oriented framework for collaborative business processes (Funding: ARC LP0669660; Partners: SAP; Duration: 2006-2009).
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Teaching Experiences:

• I am currently involved in the training for Graduate Certificate of Learning and Teaching (GCLT) supported by Swinburne (2012-2013).
• Coordinator, Summer Scholarship Project, "Benchamarking the Cloud" (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ict/success/scholarships/#10), FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Dec. 2011 to Feb. 2012.
• Convenor/Lecture, Web Programming HIT3323, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Jan. 2012~ Feb. 2012 (Summer Course). (Demos Download: here)
• Tutor, HET123/HET723/HIT3323/HIT6323 Web Programming/Internet and WWW 2, March 2012 ~ May 2012.
• Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering Project A HIT3158, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, March 2011 ~ June 2011.
• Teaching Assistant, Research Methods HIT4010/HIT9010, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Mar. 2011 ~ June 2011.
• Tutor, Web Programming HIT3323, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Jan. 2011 ~ Feb. 2011 (Summer Course).
• Tutor, PHP and MySQL HIT6323, FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Mar. 2008 ~ Jun. 2008.
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Presentation/Seminar/Invited Talk:

• Conference Presentation: BMP08 (PPT), eScience08 (PPT), ICSP09 (PPT), CCGrid10(PPT), ICPADS10 (PPT)
• Workshop/Seminar: ACPYS08 (PPT)
• Invited Talk (as a visiting scholar): HFUT08 (PPT), HFUT09 (PPT) , HFUT10(PPT), Shanghai Jiaotong University (PPT), HFUT11, Institute of Software (Chinese Academy of Science).

Research Interests             BACK TO TOP

• Scientific Workflow Management and Applications
• Cloud Computing
• Software Verification and Validation in Workflow Systems
• Workflow Management and Applications in Grid (Service)/Cloud Computing Environments
• QoS and Resource Scheduling in Distributed Computing Systems (Grid and Cloud)
• Service Oriented Computing (SLA, Negotiation, Engineering, Composition)

Awards and Scholarships                BACK TO TOP

• NEW! Excellent Award, the 6th "ChunHuiBei" Innovative and Entrepreneurial Contest, Guangzhou, China, Dec. 2011. http://cyds.cscse.edu.cn/publish/portal6/tab655/info14770.htm
• Innovation Team Award and Leading Talent Award, the 2011(14th) Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology, with Project title "Integrated Service Platform for E-Commerce Cloud" (ISPEC), Team Members: Shengqiong Wang, Xiao Liu, Victor Li, Lun Zhou, Yun Yang, Jian Shen, Yunchun Jiang. http://www.ocs-gz.gov.cn/news/detail/2509?top=1
• Best PhD Thesis 2010, Faculty of ICT, Thesis Title: A novel probabilistic temporal framework and its strategies for cost effective delivery of high QoS in scientific cloud workflow systems, 2011.
• Funding for Visiting Chinese Academy of Science, June, 2011. http://www.cas.cn/xw/zyxw/yw/201106/t20110617_3289367.shtml
• 2009-2010 Excellent Service Award as the President of Swinburne Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Education Office of Consulate-General of P.R.C in Melbourne, 2011. 
• 2010 EII PhD School Travel Bursary, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, 23 November 2010 - 27 November 2010, The University of Queensland, http://eii.edu.au/phd-school-10
• Organisation Committee Excellence (Certificate), The Third Symposium for Chinese and Australian Scholars On Science, Technology and Education (第三届中澳科学技术教育联合论坛), 2010, media reports by China Radio International http://gb.cri.cn/27824/2010/10/07/2225s3012477_1.htm                              
• 2009 CHINESE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS ABROAD (2009年"国家优秀自费留学生奖学金"), 2010 http://www.csc.edu.cn/Chuguo/5124eca1ce0847b1a211dabb13ee7b47.shtml, the awarding ceremony reported by Xinhua News Agency http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-07/23/c_12363481.htm
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), Australia, 2007-2010
• Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Awards (SUPRA), Swinburne, 2007-2010
• Excellent Graduates, ANHUI Province, China, 2007
• Excellent Graduates, HFUT, 2007
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Selected Refereed Publications     Full List           BACK TO TOP

Books:

1. X. Liu, Y. Yang, J. Chen, Cost-Effective Temporal QoS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems, to be published by Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier) in 2012.
2. X. Liu, Y. Yang, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, W. Li, D. Cao, Q. He, J. Chen, The Design of Cloud Workflow Systems: Architecture, Functionality and Quality of Service, to be published by SpringerBriefs in 2011.

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 (pdf), Handbook of Cloud Computing, pages 309-332, Springer, ISBN: 978-1-4419-6523-3, 2010.
2. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, Chapter 6. Computation and Storage Trade-Off Cost-effectively Storing Scientific Datasets in the Cloud, Handbook of Data Intensive Computing, to be published by Springer in 2011.

Journals:

1. NEW!  X. Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Jiang and J. Chen, Preventing Temporal Violations in Scientific Workflows: Where and How (pdf), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 805-825, Nov./Dec. 2011.
2. X. Liu, Z. Ni, J. Chen, Y. Yang, A Probabilistic Strategy for Temporal Constraint Management in Scientific Workflow Systems (pdf), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Wiley, vol. 23, no. 16, pp. 1893-1919, Nov. 2011.
3. 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 (pdf), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol. 84, no. 3, Pages 354-376, March 2011.
4. 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 (JSS), Elsevier, vol.84, no. 3, Pages 492-509, March 2011.
5. Z. Wu, X. Liu. Z. Ni, D, Yuan and Y. Yang, A Market‑Oriented Hierarchical Scheduling Strategy in Cloud Workflow Systems (pdf), Journal of Supercomputing (JSC), published online, http://www.springerlink.com/content/t7t8823l8g88l827/fulltext.pdf, 2011.
6. 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.
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), published online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1636, 2010
8. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu, J. Chen, A Data Placement Strategy in Cloud Scientific Workflows (pdf), Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1200-1214, 2010.
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 (IJHPC), vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 445-456, Nov. 2010.

Conferences:

1. NEW! G. Zhang, Y. Yang, X. Liu and J. Chen, A Time-series Pattern based Noise Generation Strategy for Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing. 2012 International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), May 13-16, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
2. X. Liu, Y. Yang, D. Cao, D. Yuan, J. Chen, Managing Large Numbers of Business Processes with Cloud Workflow Systems. 10th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2012), Melbourne, Australia, 2012 .
3. X. Liu, Y. Yang, D. Yuan, G. Zhang, W. Li and D. Cao, A Generic QoS Framework for Cloud Workflow Systems. International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2011.
4. 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. 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (Cloud2011), Washington DC, USA, July 2011.
5. 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. 16th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS2010), pp. 43-50, Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010.
6. 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), pp. 534-537, May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
7. D. Yuan, Y. Yang, X. Liu and J. Chen, A Cost-Effective Strategy for Intermediate Data Storage in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems. Proc. of 24th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS10), Atlanta, USA, Apr. 2010 (accepted on Dec. 8, 2009).
8. X. Liu, Y. Yang, J. Chen, Q. Wang and M. Li, Achieving On-Time Delivery: A Two-Stage Probabilistic Scheduling Strategy for Software Projects (pdf), Proc. of International Conference on Software Process (ICSP09), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5543, pages 317-329, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.
9. X. Liu, J. Chen and Y. Yang, A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows (pdf), Proc. 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5240, pages 180-195, Milan, Italy, Sept. 2008.
10. X. Liu, J. Chen, K. Liu and Y. Yang, Forecasting Duration Intervals of Scientific Workflow Activities based on Time-Series Patterns (pdf), Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science08), pages 23-30, Indianapolis, USA, Dec. 2008.

PhD Thesis:

    A novel probabilistic temporal framework and its strategies for cost effective delivery of high QoS in scientific cloud workflow systems (pdf), Swinburne Research Bank permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/192118

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.

Media Reports:

1. NEW! Swinburne PhD recipient to publish book, Swinburne Staff Bulletin, 18 August 2011, a media report on the book to be published by Morgan Kaufmann.
2. Research brings cloud computing costs back to earth, Swinburne Magazine, July 2011 Issue. A media report on the cloud data management research in our group.
3. Here's the weather forecast: faster. IT Today, The Australian, Tuesday, 30 March 2010. A media report on the project of our WT group.
4. Awarding ceremony for 2009 CHINESE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS ABROAD, reported by Xinhua News Agency.

Useful Links                 BACK TO TOP

The leading conferences of my focus areas:

* Prof. Yun Yang is a PC member for ICSE11 and ICSE12.

Melbourne time and around the world:  (WorldClock)

Major conferences/Journals on Software Engineering: ICSE, FSE, ASE, ICSP, TSE (Rank A*, IEEE Transactions), TOSEM (Rank A*, ACM Transactions), JSS (Elsevier)

Major conferences/Journals on Distributed Computing: ICDCS, PODC, IPDPS, HPDC, ICPP, ICPADS, CCGrid, eScience, TPDS (Rank A*, IEEE Transactions), JPDC (Rank A*, Elsevier), FGCS (Elsevier), CCPE (WILEY)

Major conferences/Journals on Business Process Management and Information System: BPM, CoopIS, CAiSE, ICIS, Information Systems (Rank A*, Elsevier), Information System Research (Rank A*, INFORMS),

Statistics on Networking conferences at Prof. Kevin C. Almeroth's page http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/conf/stats/

Statistics on Software Engineering conferences at Prof. Xiao Tao's page http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/seconferences.htm

Call-for-papers at Prof. Hai Jin's Page: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/call/index.jsp

Conference and Journal Rankings:     BACK TO TOP

ARC (Australian Research Council) Ranking of ICT Conferences: 2010 conferences sorted alphabetically by title
ARC (Australian Research Council) Ranking of ICT Journals: 2010 journal sorted alphabetically by rank

    HFUT   SUCCESS     FOCSA   VACPS   SwinCSSA   

Last Updated on 02/03/2012