Dr Lu Liu

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Job title: University Reader in Distributed Computing

Email: l.liu@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: sites.google.com/site/luliusite/
Phone No: 01332 591707
Room: E510

Recent publications

Jie Xu, Dacheng Zhang, Lu Liu, Xianxian Li, Dynamic Authentication for Cross-Realm SOA-Based Business Processes, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, Vol 5(1), 2012, pp. 20-32. ISSN:1939-1374. DOI:10.1109/TSC.2010.33

Xiaoyu Yang, Lu Liu, Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, IGI Global, January 2013. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2854-0, ISBN13: 9781466628540, ISBN10: 1466628545, EISBN13: 9781466628557

Lu Liu, Osama Masfary, Nick Antonopoulos, Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors, Sensors, MDPI, Vol. 12(5), pp 6610-6628, May 2012, doi:10.3390/s120506610.

Xinjun Mao, Menggao Dong, Lu Liu and Huaiming Wang, An Integrated Approach to Developing Self-Adaptive Software in Open Environments, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Academia Sinica, in press, 2012.

Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Dot-base62x: Building A Compact and User-friendly Text Representation Scheme of IPv6 Addresses for Cloud Computing, Journal of Cloud Computing, Springer, Vol 1(3), 2012, ISSN: 2192-113X. DOI:10.1186/2192-113X-1-3

Jianxin Li, Yu Jia, Lu Liu, Tianyu Wo, CyberLiveApp: A Secure Sharing and Migration Approach for Live Virtual Desktop Applications in a Cloud Environment, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, Vol 29(1), January 2013, pp330-340. ISSN: 0167-739X. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.08.001

Jianxin Li, Xudong Liu, Lu Liu, Dazhi Sun, Bo Li, HiTrust: Building Cross-organizational Trust Relationship based on a Hybrid Negotiation Tree, Telecommunication Systems, Springer, in press, 2012, ISSN: 1018-4864. DOI: 10.1007/s11235-011-9648-4

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Nick Antonopoulos, Jianxin Li, Kaigui Wu, Adaptive Service Discovery on Service-Oriented and Spontaneous Sensor Systems, Journal of Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Old City Publishing, Vol. 14 (1-2), 2012, pp. 107-132. ISSN: 1551-9899.

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, David Webster, Zongyang Luo, Colin Venters, & John Davies, Dynamic Service Integration for Reliable and Sustainable Capability Provision, International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor & Francis Vol. 43(1), January 2012, pp. 79-96. ISSN: 0020-7721. DOI: 10.1080/00207721003774736

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Jie Xu, David Webster, Kaigui Wu, Distributed Service Integration for Disaster Monitoring Sensor Systems, IET Communications, Vol 5(12), August 2011, pp. 1777 - 1784. ISSN 1751-8628. DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0630

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Clouds and Service Oriented Architectures, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, Vol 29(1), January 2013, pp. 271-272. ISSN: 0167-739X. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.05.002

Jianxin Li, Bo Li, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Lu Liu, KP Lam, CyberGuarder: A Virtualization Security Assurance Architecture for Green Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, Volume 28 Issue 2, February 2012, pp 379-390, ISSN: 0167-739X. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.04.012 (SCI- Indexed journal)

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Editorial: Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer, Vol 3(1), March 2010, pp. 1-2, ISSN: 1936-6442. DOI: 10.1007/s12083-009-0065-3

Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, Jie Xu, David Webster, Zongyang Luo, Colin Venters, & John Davies, Modelling and Simulation of Network Enabled Capability on Service-Oriented Architecture, Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Elsevier Science, Vol 17 (8), September 2009, pp 1430-1442. 1569-190X. DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2009.06.012

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Paul Townend, David Webster, Efficient and Scalable Search on Scale-free P2P Networks, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer, Vol 2(2), June 2009, pp 98 - 108. ISSN: 1936-6442. DOI: 10.1007/s12083-008-0023-5

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Efficient Resource Discovery in Self-organized Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, Vol 23(2), February 2009, pp. 159-183, ISSN: 1532-0626. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1329

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Managing Peer-to-Peer Networks with Human Tactics in Social Interactions, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 44(3), June 2008, pp. 217-236, ISSN: 0920-8542. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-007-0156-y

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Fault-tolerant Peer-to-Peer Search on Small-World Networks, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, Vol. 23(8), November 2007, pp. 921-931, ISSN: 0167-739X. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2007.03.002

Lu Liu, Stephen Mackin, Small Satellites and Disaster Monitoring Constellation, Aerospace China, Issue 6, June 2004, pp. 18-21, ISSN: 1002-7742.

James Hardy, Lu Liu, Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Internet-based Virtual Computing Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, Book Chapter for Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, in press, 2012, IGI Global.

Hussain Al-Aqrabi, Lu Liu, Governance Compliant Service Oriented Computing, Book Chapter for Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, in press, 2012, IGI Global.

David Webster, Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, Colin Venters, Zongyang Luo & Jie Xu, Migrating Legacy Assets through SOA to Realize Network Enabled Capability, Book Chapter for New Directions in Web Data Management, 1st Edition, Springer, 2011, pp. 311-346. ISBN 978-3-642-17550-3. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17551-0_11

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Self-adaptation and Self-organization for Search in Social Peer-to-Peer Networks, Section 17: Social Networking using P2P Networks, Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Springer, March 2010, pp. 495-530. ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09751-0_18

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, From Client-Server to P2P Networking, Section 19: Advanced P2P Computing and Networking, Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Springer, March 2010, 71-89. ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09751-0_3

Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, Jie Xu, Investigation of Research on P2P Resource Discovery for Service-Oriented Computing, Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing, IGI Global, USA, February 2010, pp. 44-63. ISBN: 978-1615206865.

Lu Liu, N. Antonopoulos, Small World Architecture for Building Effective Virtual Organizations, Chapter X, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations, IGI Global, USA, May 2009, pp. 191-212. ISBN: 978-1-60566-364-7. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-364-7.ch010

Lu Liu, Management Information System, Chapter Three, Enterprise Informationization and e-Commerce, China South-East University Press, August 2002, pp. 53-92. ISBN 7-81050-905-5.

Bartosz Inglot, Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, A Framework for Enhanced Timeline Analysis in Digital Forensics, The IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings)， Besançon, France November 20-23, 2012. in press. IEEE Computer Society Press

Don-Anthony DaSilva, Lu Liu, Nik Bessis, Yongzhao Zhan, Enabling Green IT Through Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grids, Beijing, China, October 2012. in press. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Hussain Al-Aqrabi, Lu Liu, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Taking the Business Intelligence to the Clouds, Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Thomas Stimpson, Lu Liu, Yongzhao Zhan, An Investigation into the Evolution of Security Usage in Home Wireless Networks, Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Andrew Jones, Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Weining Liu, An Analysis of Peer to Peer Protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Thomas Stimpson, Lu Liu, Jianjun Zhang, Richard Hill, Weining Liu, Yongzhao Zhan, Assessment of Security and Vulnerability of Home Wireless Networks, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'12), Chongqing, China, May, 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

John Panneerselvam, Lu Liu, Richard Hill, Yongzhao Zhan, Weining Liu, An Investigation of the Effect of Cloud Computing on Network Management, Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Yongzhao Zhan, Chunxia Li, Lu Liu, Hussain Al-Aqrabi, A Secure Node Localization Method Based on the Congruity of Time in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Lu Liu, Osama Masfary, Jianxin Li, Evaluation of Server Virtualization Technologies for Green IT, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, Irvine, CA, USA, December 2011, pp.79-84, ISBN: 978-1-4673-0411-5. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/SOSE.2011.6139095.

James Hardy, Lu Liu, Nick Bessis, Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Performance Measurements in iVIC Virtual Machine Clones, Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, Fukuoka, Japan, March 26-29, 2012, pp. 1258 - 1263. IEEE Computer Society Press.

James Hardy, Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Weining Liu, Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Assessment and Evaluation of Internet-based Virtual Computing Infrastructure, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2012), Shenzhen, China, April 11-13, 2012. pp. 39-46, ISSN 1555-0885/12. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2012.14.

Hussain Al-Aqrabi, Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Yongzhao Zhan, Investigation of IT Security and Compliance Challenges in Security-as-a Service for Cloud Computing, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing Workshops (ISORC 2012), Shenzhen, China, April 11-13, 2012. pp. 124-129, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4669-8/12. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORCW.2012.31

Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Dot-base62x: A Compact Textual Representation of IPv6 Address for Clouds, Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), December, Melbourne, Australia 2011. pp. 427 - 432, ISBN: 978-1-4577-2116-8. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/UCC.2011.70

Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, Richard Hill, Yongzhao Zhan, Base62x: An Alternative Approach to Base64 for non-Alphanumeric Characters, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'11), Shanghai, China, July 2011. pp. 2667 - 2670, ISBN: 978-1-61284-180-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2011.6020065

Minghui Li, Kaigui Wu, L. Liu, QoS-aware Service Composition in Multi-Network Environment based on Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of CHINACOM, Harbin, China, August 2011. pp. 1231 - 1235, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0100-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158346

Zhenxing Liu, Hajinder Lallie, Lu Liu, A Hash-based Secure Interface on Plain Connection, Proceedings of CHINACOM, Harbin, China, August 2011. pp. 1236 - 1239, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0100-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158347

Lu Liu, David Webster, Jie Xu, Kaigui Wu, Enabling Dynamic Workflow for Disaster Monitoring and Relief Through Service-Oriented Sensor Networks, Proceedings of CHINACOM, Beijing, China, August 2010. pp. 1 - 7, ISBN: 973-963-9799-97-4. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Duncan Russell, Lu Liu, Zongyang Luo, Colin Venters, D. Webster, and Jie Xu, Realizing Network Enabled Capability Through Dependable Dynamic Systems Integration, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010), Bradford, UK, June 2010. pp. 1269 - 1274, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7547-6. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/CIT.2010.229

Ji Li, Lu Liu, Jie Xu, A P2P e-commerce Reputation Model Based On Fuzzy Logic. Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010), Bradford, UK, June 2010. pp. 1275 - 1279, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7547-6. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/CIT.2010.230

Esmond N. Urwin, Colin Venters, Duncan Russell, Lu Liu, Zongyang Luo, David Webster, Michael Henshaw, and Jie Xu, Scenario-Based Design and Evaluation for Capability. Proceedings of The 5th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2010), Loughborough University, UK, 22-¬24 June, 2010. pp. 1 - 6, ISBN: 978-1-4244-8197-2. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2010.5544073

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Kaigui Wu, Adaptive Distributed Service Discovery for Dependable Service Integration, Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing Workshops (ISORC 2010), Carmona, Spain, May 2010. pp. 166 - 175, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7218-5. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORCW.2010.24

Kaigui Wu, Changze Wu, Lu Liu, Jie Xu, State-Based Search Strategy in Unstructured P2P, Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2010), Carmona, May 5-6 2010. pp. 180 - 184, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7083-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2010.42

KP Lam, David Collins, A.R. Soobhany, Lu Liu, An Investigation of the Use of Overlay Networks in Developing Scalable and Reliable Information Sharing Web/Services, Proceedings of International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), Barcelona, Spain, May 2010. Pp. 280 - 284, ISBN: 978-1-4244-6728-0. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2010.48

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, KP Lam, Zongyang Luo, Kaigui Wu, David Collins, Dependable Dynamic Service Integration on Service-Oriented Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of International Conference in Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS), Sliema, Malta, October 2009, pp. 116-121, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3831-0. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/AP2PS.2009.26

Colin Venters, Duncan Russell, Lu Liu, Zongyang Luo, David Webster, and Jie Xu, A Scenario-Based Architecture Evaluation Framework for Network Enabled Capability, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Seattle, USA, July 20- July 24, 2009, pp. 9-12. ISSN: 0730-3157, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3726-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.108.

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Zongyang Luo, Evolution of Social Models in Peer-to-Peer Networking: Towards Self-organising Networks, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'09), Tianjin, China, August 2009, pp. 250-254. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3735-1. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2009.522

Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, David Webster, Zongyang Luo, Colin Venters, J. Xu, J. Davies, Delivering Sustainable Capability on Evolutionary Service-oriented Architecture, Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2009), Tokyo, Japan, March 2009, pp. 12-19. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3573-9. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2009.9

Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, Jie Xu, John Davies, Ken Irvin, Agile Properties of Service Oriented Architectures for Network Enabled Capability, Proceedings of International Conference on Realising Network Enabled Capability, Leeds, United Kingdom, October 2008. (Best Paper Award)

David Webster, Nick Looker, Duncan Russell, Lu Liu and Jie Xu, An Ontology for Evaluation of Network Enabled Capability, Proceedings of International Conference on Realising Network Enabled Capability, Leeds, United Kingdom, October 2008.

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Investigation of Research Towards Efficient Social Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of International Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI 2008), Athens, Greece, July 2008, pp. 263-270, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3275-2/08. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ICCGI.2008.15

Lu Liu, Duncan Russell, Nick Looker, David Webster, Jie Xu, John Davies, Ken Irvin, Evolutionary Service-Oriented Architecture for Network Enabled Capability, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VeCoS), Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2008, pp.1-11, eWiC series of the British Computer Society (BCS). ISSN: 1477-9358. http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_ve08_s6paper3.pdf

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Nick Antonopoulos, Self-organization of Autonomous Peers with Human Strategies, Proceedings of International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications (P2PSA) Track, Athens, Greece, June 2008, pp. 348-357, ISBN 978-0-7695-3163-2. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2008.111

Duncan Russell, Nick Looker, Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Service-Oriented Integration of Systems for Military Capability, Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2008, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3132-8. pp. 33-41, IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2008.45

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Social Peer-to-Peer for Resource Discovery, Proceedings of 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-based Processing (Euromicro PDP), Naples, Italy, February 2007, ISBN 0-7695-2784-1, ISSN: 1066-6192. pp. 459-466, IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2007.76

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Small World Peer-to-peer for Resource Discovery, Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Information Networking, Estoril, Portugal, January 2007, Selected to be published in the book - Information Networking. Towards Ubiquitous Networking and Services, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 5200), Springer, 2008, ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-540-89523-7, pp. 223-233. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-89524-4_23

Lu Liu, Efficient Resource Discovery in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of SOSoRNet Workshop on Dependable, Dynamic Distributed Services and Systems, Leeds, United Kingdom, November 2007, pp 35-38.

Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin, Directed Information Search and Retrieval over Unstructured Peer-to-Peer, Proceedings of International Computer Engineering Conference, Special Session on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks (IRP2P), pp.1-8, Cairo, Egypt, December 2006. (Best Paper Award of IRP2P)

Lu Liu, Stephen Mackin, Nick Antonopoulos, Small World Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong, China, December 2006, pp.451-454, ISBN: 0-7695-2749-3. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.123