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An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework

Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework. In Cloud Computing and Security. , (254-263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_23
With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual...

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...

BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications

Journal Article
Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017)
BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848
With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the gr...

Semantic description of cloud service agreements

Conference Proceeding
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2015)
Semantic description of cloud service agreements. In Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015, (823-831). https://doi.org/10.1109/sai.2015.7237239
To provide cloud services as a utility there must be a mechanism for comprehensively and precisely specifying cloud service agreements to reduce differences in service percept...

A generative and component based approach to reuse in database applications.

Conference Proceeding
Wang, B. H. (., Liu, X., & Kerridge, J. (2002)
A generative and component based approach to reuse in database applications. In 5th Generative Programming and Component Engineering Young Researcher Workshop
The development of database application systems will benefit from high reusability because similar design circumstances recur frequently in database developments. However, res...

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...

Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink

Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Zhang, K., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink. In Cloud Computing and Security, 232-243. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_21
In a traditional wireless sensor network with static sinks, sensor nodes close to the sink run out of their batteries quicker than other nodes due to the increased data traffi...

Achieving dependable component-based systems through generative aspect oriented component adaptation.

Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2006)
Achieving dependable component-based systems through generative aspect oriented component adaptation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 45-48. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2006.106
Mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applications are often inevitable and have been a major hurdle of component reusabilit...

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...

Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation

Journal Article
Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008)
Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 31(1/2), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2008.017721
When building service oriented systems, it is often the case that existing web services do not perfectly match user requirements in target systems. To achieve smooth integrati...