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DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components

Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Chinenyeze, S. J., & Al-Dubai, A. (2016)
DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components. In 2016 IEEE 40th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.90
Many software projects are built using reusable components (i.e. reusable objects - as per component and connectors in software architectures). During component selection in C...

An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment

Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017)
An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), (128-131). https://doi.org/10.1109/cse-euc.2017.208
Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance...

Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces.

Conference Proceeding
Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., & Cruickshank, P. (2018)
Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces. In 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2018.10330
Smart Spaces currently benefits from Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures in order to realise its objectives. In many cases, it demonstrates this through certain automated...

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 ...

Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments

Conference Proceeding
Habibullah, S., Liu, X., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Q. (2019)
Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments. In Computer Science Conference Proceedingshttps://doi.org/10.5121/csit.2019.90713
Evolution has always been a challenge for enterprise computing systems. The microservice based architecture is a new design model which is rapidly becoming one of the most eff...

Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space

Conference Proceeding
Singh Jamnal, G., Liu, X., & Fan, L. (2017)
Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space. In Proceedings of The 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
In this paper, we proposed a new type of decision making system to achieve the intelligent goal for automated smart environments. The artificial intelligence techniques, used ...

A refinement calculus for the development of real-time systems.

Conference Proceeding
Chen, Z., Cau, A., Zedan, H., Liu, X., & Yang, H. (1998)
A refinement calculus for the development of real-time systems. In 5th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC '98, 61. https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.1998.733588
We present a calculus which can transfer specifications to objects for the development of real-time systems. The object model is based on a practical OO development technique—...

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...

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...