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Dr Xiaodong Liu
Reader
Dr. X. Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is a reader and the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems, in the IIDI, Edinburgh Napier University. Dr Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with known reputation and leading expertise in context-aware adaptive services, service evolution, mobile clouds, pervasive computing, software reuse, and green software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities.
Dr Liu has led 6
externally funded projects as the PI, and published over 60 papers in established
international journals and conferences, 3 book chapters and 2 research
handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the
founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of
a number of IEEE and IASTED International Conferences. He is the editorial
board member of 3 international journals and editor of 2 research books. He is
a member of IEEE Computer Society and British Computer Society.
Areas of Expertise 
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Data and information are key assets for modern business. Large complex and incomplete datasets are common in industry. Exploiting that data successfully can give a major competitive advantage while, if it is not managed successfully, its value is often lost.
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The institute's expertise in software engineering encompasses the entire development lifecycle, and we focus on the approaches and tools to improve the engineering process of both emerging and widely used software systems. Increasing the productivity and improving the quality of software remains a...
Contact
x.liu@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2747
Room C55
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Recent Projects
The project will advance the current state of art of e-business and cloud computing by developing a novel approach to cloud-based e-business service evolution and personalisation. We'll seek further funding from the research councils and EU calls based on the partnership.
PhD Project Involvement
Samuel Chinenyeze (PhD 2012-)
Towards a noveI approach to greener software services in the cloud.
Daren Fang (PhD 2011-)
An approach to dynamic and elastic cloud service specification, recommendation and provision. Along with the rapid development of expansion of the cloud computing market, not only the number of cloud applications continues growing, the complexity of their relationships also increases.
Kevin Sim (PhD 2010-)
A hyper heuristic approach to optimisation. Hyper-heuristics (HH) have been described as methodologies that aim to offer “good enough -soon enough - cheap enough” solutions to real world problems.
Zhe Wang (PhD 2010-)
An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds.
Mathew Miehling (PhD 2008-)
An investigatory framework for electronic fraud using affiliate fraud as a case study.
Recent Publications
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., Yang, H. (2012). Evolution for the Sustainability of Internetware. In: Proceedings of Internetware'12. ACM Digital Library.
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Zhao, H. (2012). Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology. In: 6th IEEE International Workshop Quality-Oriented Reuse of Software (IEEE QUORS’12) . IEEE Computer Society.
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., Smith, S. (2012). A Unified Approach for the Dynamic Evolution of Context-aware Services. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Computers, Information and Communication - ICICIC 2012. India: PSG Tech.
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