A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2008)
A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems. In Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 249-254. doi: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 ...
A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Li, S., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018)
A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 10(3), 248-256. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2018.091788
Home energy management (HEM) and smart home have been popular among people; HEM collects and analyses the electric load data to make the power use safe, reliable, economical, ...
CACA-UAN: A Context-Aware Communication Approach Based on the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Chen, X., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
CACA-UAN: A Context-Aware Communication Approach Based on the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network. In X. Sun, A. Liu, H. C. Chao, & E. Bertino (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2016
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil in recent years. Among these ap...
Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools.
Book
Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2011)
Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools. IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-735-7
Recently, rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software s...
Jabber-based cross-domain efficient and privacy-ensuring context management framework.
Journal Article
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2013)
Jabber-based cross-domain efficient and privacy-ensuring context management framework. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 4, 84
In pervasive environments, context-aware applications require a global knowledge of the context information distributed in different spatial domains in order to establish cont...
A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL.
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, H., Sun, J., & Liu, X. (2012)
A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL. In Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1109/APSCC.2012.29
With the rapid increase of Web Service applications, the reliability of web service and service composition has drawn particular attention from researchers and industries. Man...
Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes
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. doi: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...
Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications
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. doi: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 informati...
Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment. Sensors, 16(9), 1386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16091386
Distributed Computing has achieved tremendous development since cloud computing was proposed in 2006, and played a vital role promoting rapid growth of data collecting and ana...
Pricing Ontology for Task-Oriented Cloud Sourcing
Conference Proceeding
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2016)
Pricing Ontology for Task-Oriented Cloud Sourcing. In 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2016.17
Cloud computing allows access to computing resources from a number of providers, who offer multiple pricing strategies for selected product characteristics. The service offeri...