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, Chapter 16: Internet-based Virtual Computing Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, Book Chapter for Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, IGI Global, January 2013. pp 371-389. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2854-0.ch016
Hussain Al-Aqrabi, Lu Liu, Chapter 6: Governance Compliant Service Oriented Computing, Book Chapter for Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, IGI Global, January 2013. Pp 143-163. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2854-0.ch006
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
Jianxin Li, Xudong Li, Linlin Meng, Jinpeng Huai, Zekun Zhu, Lu Liu, Chapter 10: CloudRank: A Cloud Service Ranking Method Based on Both User Feedback and Service Testing, Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing, IGI Global, January 2013, pp 230-258. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2854-0.ch010
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. 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. pp. 32-38. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/SKG.2012.29
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. pp. 953-958. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2012.138
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. pp. 920-925. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2012.82
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. pp. 1994-1999. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2012.69
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. pp. 2133-2137. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2012.6233783
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. pp. 1794-1799. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2012.270
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. pp. 884-889. IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2012.57
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. DOI: 10.1109/SOSE.2011.6139095.
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
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: School of Computing and Mathematics
Subject Area: Computing and IT
Dr Lu Liu is a Reader in Distributed Computing at the School of Computing and Mathematics in the University of Derby, UK. Dr Liu joined the University of Derby as Senior Lecturer in 2010. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer (2009-2010) in School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University, London, UK. Dr Liu worked as a Research Fellow (2007-2009) of the WRG e-Science Centre at Leeds University on the EPSRC/BAE funded NECTISE Project and the CoLaB Project which was jointly funded by the EPSRC and the China-863 Program.
Dr Liu received his PhD degree from University of Surrey (funded by DIF DTC) and MSc in Data Communication Systems from Brunel University. Dr Liu's research interests are in areas of cloud computing, service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer computing, virtual computing and system of systems engineering. Dr Liu has over 80 scientific publications in reputable journals, academic books and international conferences.
Dr Liu was recognised as a Promising Researcher by University of Derby in 2011 and received BCL Faculty Research Award in 2012. I won two university funded RLTF projects on e-learning Cloud in 2012 and Higher Education Cloud in 2011, respectively, and the International Collaboration Project "HECloud: A Green Cloud Platform for Higher Education" with Prof Nick Antonopoulos in December 2012. This project is one of Sino-UK Higher Education Research Partnerships for PhD Studies jointly funded by British Council and China Scholarship Council.
Dr Liu received the Best Paper Award at the Realising Network Enabled Capability Conference in 2008, the Best Paper Award at Special Session on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks (IRP2P) of International Computer Engineering Conference 2006, and the Outstanding Service Award in 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC), 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) and 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT).
Teaching responsibilities
Network Management Concepts
Advanced Network Switching
Distributed Systems
Peer-to-Peer Computing
Research interests
- Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- Peer-to-peer Computing
- Service Oriented Computing
- Internet of Things (iThings)
- Cyber Physical Society
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- System of Systems Engineering
- Complex Networks
- Artificial Intelligence
- Human Computer Interaction
- Semantic Web & Semantic Information Retrieval
International Experience
HECloud: A Green Cloud Platform for Higher Education, Sino-UK Higher Education Research Partnership for PhD Studies (2012-2014)
This project is an international collaboration project between University of Derby (UK) and Tongji University (China) which is funded by British Council and China Scholarship Council. The primary objectives of the project are to investigate the potential impact of Cloud Computing for HE and design a novel energy-saving virtualisation architecture for green Cloud computing.
Organisation: University of Derby, UK (in collaboration with Tongji University, China)
E-learning Cloud (2012-2013)
This project is funded by University of Derby RLTF. Recent advances in Cloud Computing and virtualization techniques provide an opportunity to develop cost-effective personalised virtual learning environments for distance education. In this project, we are going to develop a novel secure architecture for Cloud-based online learning environments addressing existing online teaching and learning challenges of practice-based resource-intensive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses. The aim of the project is to develop a novel Cloud architecture for building next generation personal learning environments to enhance teaching and learning of practice-based ICT online programmes.
Organisation: University of Derby, UK
Higher Education Cloud (2011-2012)
This project is funded by University of Derby RLTF. The Cloud Computing offers a practical approach to enable effective sharing and utilisation of applications over the Internet which has potential to transform Higher Education (HE) learning and business processes. In this project, we are going to develop a novel security assurance architecture of green Cloud Computing for UK HE.
Organisation: University of Derby, UK
Detecting Terrorist Activities: Making Sense (2010-2013)
This is an EPSRC funded project. The key challenge that the project addresses is the analysis and visualization of multiple sources of multi-modal data that may be partial, unreliable and contradictory. In addressing this challenge we expect to create an interactive visualization-based decision support assistant which collects data, fuses it, analyses it and visualizes the results in a way which can be shared by analysts.
Organisation: Middlesex University, UK (in collaboration with Imperial College London, University of Dundee, Cranfield University, University of Liverpool, University of Surrey, University of Leeds, University of Southampton and University of Salford)
NECTISE, Funded by EPSRC & BAE Systems (2007-2010)
The NECTISE (Network Enabled Capability Through Innovative Systems Engineering) project is a EPSRC/BAE Systems funded research endeavour involving ten UK Universities and BAE Systems with a value of around £4M. The University of Leeds is one of the four academic leaders for the entire programme, leading research activities on system architectures and contributing to the development of Through Life System Management. The goal of my research is to investigate and develop SOA-based architectural strategies and mechanisms appropriate for the through-life delivery of NEC. There are two activities: Architectural Design for Changes; and Coping with Dynamic Evolution and Unknowns. These are analysed and assessed as to whether they are important for, and how they are related to, through-life evolution.
Organisation: University of Leeds, UK (in collaboration Universities of: Loughborough, Bath, Cambridge, Cranfield, Leicester, Manchester, Queen's Belfast, Strathclyde, and York)
CoLab: e-Science Collaboration between Leeds and Beihang (2006-2009)
The CoLab project is funded by EPSRC (UK) and 863 Program Committee (China). The primary mission of CoLaB is to support the needs of the next generation of Internet computing. Grid Computing is such a promising technology that enables advanced e-Science, e-Business and e-Government applications for the future so it remains our current focus. More specific research topics include, but are not limited to Distributed Systems, Web Services technology, Grid computing, Wireless/Mobile computing, Scientific computing, e-Science, Grid application, Middleware, Security and Privacy, Fault Tolerance, System Testing and System Monitoring.
Organisation: University of Leeds, UK (in collaboration Beihang University, China)
PhD Project: Data Discovery and Delivery Architecture (2004-2007)
This project is funded by UK Data and Information Fusion, Defence Technology Centre (DIF DTC). The objective of the project is to design a self-organising model for efficient resource discovery in P2P networks by mimicking different human behaviours in social networks.
Organisation: University of Surry, UK
Surrey Space Centre (SSC) Autonomy Effort (2004-2007)
This project is funded by Surrey Space Centre. Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) developed in Surrey Space Centre is a network of satellites that provides users global natural and man-made disaster monitoring. The aim of the effort is to maximally limit the need for humans to interact with the satellite constellation to perform functions that could be otherwise performed autonomously by the satellite constellation itself (either on the ground or on the actual satellites), then the potential exists for better constellation utilization and more timely responses to users' needs. We identified five distinct layers for the effort. I am responsible for the second layer. The second layer represents the P2P computer network(s) that connects the users to one another as well as to data service providers. The chosen network architecture offers users working in different domains a large degree of flexibility to rapidly share information and enter/leave the network as needed.
Organisation: University of Surry, UK
M.Sc. project: Building Enterprise Information Portal with Jetspeed (2002-2003)
Typical Internet access requires one to enter a URL to view static Web pages, like MS-DOS commands input. However, portlets give users an opportunity to create personalized portals themselves to offer assorted services and information via portals, which are very much like Windows applications.
Organisation: Brunel University, UK
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Member of IEEE and BCS
Additional Interests and Activities
• Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Cloud Computing, IBIMA.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things, International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks, Hindawi, 2012
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Clouds and SOAs, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer.
• Member of Editorial Review Board (ERB), International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), IGI Global.
• Program Chair
- The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2013), 21 - 24 August, Beijing China
- The 3rd International Symposium on Mobile and Wireless Network Security (MWNS-12),In conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-12), Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June, 2012
- The 3rd International Workshop on Dependable Service-Oriented and Cloud computing (DSOC 2012), In conjunction with 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC), Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June, 2012
- The 2nd International Workshop on Dependable Service-Oriented computing and Cloud (DSOC 2011), in conjunction to 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2011), Pafos, Cyprus, 31 August-02 September 2011
- The 1st International Workshop on Dependable Service-Oriented computing and Cloud (DSOC 2010), in conjunction to 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010), Bradford, UK, 29 June - 01 July, 2010
• Program Vice Chair
- 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013.
- The IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2012), Besançon, France, 12-14 September, 2012
- The 8th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grids, Beijing, China, 22-24 October, 2012
• Track Chair
- Track 3 of iThings 2012: Intelligent Data Processing
- Track 10 of the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies: Data Centers and Cloud Computing, Bucharest, Romania, September 19 - 21, 2012
• Co-chair
- 3rd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies, Bucharest, Romania (EIDWT 2012), September 19-21, 2012
- International Conference on Realising Network Enabled Capability, Leeds, United Kingdom, October 2008.
- Agile in NEC Workshop, Loughborough, March 2008.
- SOSoRNet Workshop on Dependable, Dynamic Distributed Services and Systems, Leeds, United Kingdom, November 2007.
• Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (Future Computing'09), Athens, Greece, November 2009.
• Tutorial Co-chair, The 7th IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), CA, USA, March 2013
• Publicity Co-chair, The 6th IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), Irvine, CA, USA, Dec 2011.
• Program Committee Member
- IEEE ICCVE 2013, CISIS-2013,Euromicro PDP 2013, EUSPN 2013
- IEEE CSE 2012, IEEE iThings 2012, 3PGCIC 2012, EIDWT 2012/2011, WETICE 2012/2011, iVCE 2012/2011/2010, ICCVE 2012
- FUTURE COMPUTING 2013/2012/2011/2010, AP2PS 2012/2011/2010/2009
- IEEE HPCC 2011, ICIW 2011/2010/2009. FSKD 2012/2010, MSOP2P 2011
- ITAAC 2011, IWCPS 2011, PARELEC 2011, GCN 2011, IPDS 2011
- PMSN 2009, ServP2P 2009, EWOSS 2009, ComP2P 2008
Postgraduate qualifications
- MSc Data Communication Systems, Brunel University
- Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE), Middlesex University
Research qualifications
- PhD on Data Discovery and Delivery Architecture, University of Surrey
Research posts
| Institution | Project | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| University of Leeds | Network Enabled Capability Through Innovative Systems Engineering (NECTISE) | 8/2007 - 6/2009 |
