An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Pahl, C. (2015)
An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework. Journal of cloud computing advances, systems and applications, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-015-0039-3
Cloud computing offers various computational resources via convenient on-demand service provision. Currently, heterogeneous services and cloud resources are usually utilized a...
Cloud Migration Patterns: A Multi-Cloud Service Architecture Perspective.
Conference Proceeding
Jamshidi, P., Pahl, C., Chinenyeze, S., & Liu, X. (2014)
Cloud Migration Patterns: A Multi-Cloud Service Architecture Perspective
Many organizations migrate their on-premise software systems to the cloud. However, current coarse-grained cloud migration solutions have made a transparent migration of on-pr...
Benefits management of cloud computing investments
Journal Article
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2014)
Benefits management of cloud computing investments. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 5(7), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050701%23sthash.KtMts9Zz.dpuf
This paper examines investments in cloud computing using the Benefits Management approach. The major contribution of the paper is to provide a unique insight into how organiza...
An Upper Ontology for Benefits Management of Cloud Computing
Journal Article
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2014)
An Upper Ontology for Benefits Management of Cloud Computing. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 5(12), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051211
Benefits Management provides an established approach for decision making and value extraction for IT/IS investments and, can be used to examine cloud computing investments. Th...
An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers.
Conference Proceeding
Chinenyeze, S., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014)
An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers. In ict4s-14https://doi.org/10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.14
Green software is currently gaining interests with the increasing impact of IT in energy consumption. Green-ness in software however, can be achieved at various stages of the ...
OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2014)
OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization. Journal of cloud computing advances, systems and applications, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0009-1
Many efforts have been made in optimizing cloud service resource management for efficient service provision and delivery, yet little research addresses how to consume the prov...
Requirements model driven adaption and evolution of Internetware
Journal Article
Liu, L., Yang, C., Wang, J., Ye, X., Liu, Y., Yang, H., & Liu, X. (2014)
Requirements model driven adaption and evolution of Internetware. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 57(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-014-5064-1
Today’s software systems need to support complex business operations and processes. The development of the web-based software systems has been pushing up the limits of traditi...
MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection.
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Li, C. (2013)
MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection. International journal of computers & technology, 5, 144-157
Driven by the continuous expansions of software applications and the increases in component varieties and sizes, the so-called component mismatch problem has become a more sev...
Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds
Journal Article
Wei, H., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Cheng, G. (2013)
Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 1(1), 6-9. https://doi.org/10.12720/jiii.1.1.6-9
The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution o...
TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs.
Conference Proceeding
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2013)
TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications 2013, 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.56
Much research has been conducted focusing on improving resource utilization efficiency in data centers in the context of Green Cloud Computing (GCC). While virtualization enab...