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Dr. Xuyun (Sean) Zhang (张旭云), is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University. Before joining MQ, he was a lecturer in The University of Auckland from 2016-2019, and a postdoc researcher at the Machine Learning Research Group, NICTA (now Data61, CSIRO) from 2014-2016. He studied his PhD degree in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He also worked at the Australian national scientific body Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) as a co-supervised PhD student. Before going to Australia, he received BS's and ME'S degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University, China in 2008 and 2011, respectively. His research interest includes big data, privacy-preserving technologies and cyber security, machine learning and data mining, outlier and anomaly detection, cloud/edge/fog computing and IoTs, Web/cloud service technologies, etc.

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Name: Xuyun (Sean) Zhang

Affiliation: Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University

Post Address: BD Building, 4 Research Park Drive, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia

Email: xyzhanggz@gmail.com (permanent), xuyun.zhang@mq.edu.au

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Honors, Scholarships and Awards

Early-Career Researcher Excellence Award (ECREA), The University of Auckland, 2019

Chancellor's Award for best PhD thesis, University of Technology Sydney, 2015

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2012

ICT Top-Up Scholarship, CSIRO, 2011

IRS Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney, 2011

Scholarship of Excellent Postgraduate Student, Nanjing University, 2010

People’s Scholarship, Second-Class, Nanjing University, 2007

Third Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling, Nanjing University, 2006

Publications

Journal Articles (57):

Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Honghao Gao, Yuan Xue, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, "BeCome: Blockchain-Enabled Computation Offloading for IoT in Mobile Edge Computing", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, accepted, 2019.

Qiang He, Guangming Cui, Xuyun Zhang, Feifei Chen, Shuiguang Deng, Hai Jin, Yun Yang, "A Game-Theoretical Approach for User Allocation in Edge Computing Environment", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted, 2019.

Lianyong Qi, Yi Chen, Yuan Yuan, Shucun Fu, Xuyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu, "A QoS-aware virtual machine scheduling method for energy conservation in cloud-based cyber-physical systems", World Wide Web Journal, in press, 2019.

Xiaolong Xu, Yi Chen, Xuyun Zhang, Qingxiang Liu, Xihua Liu, Lianyong Qi, "A Blockchain-based Computfation Offloading Method for Edge Computing in 5G Networks", Software: Practice and Experience, accepted, 2019.

Xiaolong Xu, Qingxiang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Jie Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, "A Blockchain-Powered Crowdsourcing Method With Privacy Preservation in Mobile Environment", IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, in press, 2019.

Wenda Tang, Chaobing Wu, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, "A WiFi‐aware method for mobile data offloading with deadline constraints", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, in press, 2019.

Yichao Zhou, Zhenmin Tang, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Shaohua Wan, "Intelligent Service Recommendation for Cold-Start Problems in Edge Computing", IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 46637-46645, 2019.

Lianyong Qi, Qiang He, Feifei Chen, Wanchun Dou, Shaohua Wan, Xuyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu, "Finding All You Need: Web APIs Recommendation in Web of Things Through Keywords Search", IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, in press, 2019.

Xuejun Li, Yunxiang Zhong, Qiang He, Feifei Chen, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Yun Yang, "Quality-Aware Service Selection for Multi-Tenant Service Oriented Systems Based on Combinatorial Auction", IEEE Access, accepted, 2019.

Xiaolong Xu, Yuan Xue, Lianyong Qi, Yuan Yuan, Xuyun Zhang, Tariq Umer, Shaohua Wan, "An edge computing-enabled computation offloading method with privacy preservation for internet of connected vehicles", Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 96, pp. 89-100, 2019.

Xiaolong Xu, Qingxiang Liu, Yun Luo, Kai Peng, Xuyun Zhang, Shunmei Meng, Lianyong Qi, "A computation offloading method over big data for IoT-enabled cloud-edge computing", Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 95, pp. 522-533, 2019.

Xiaolong Xu, Yi Chen, Yuan Yuan, Tao Huang, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, "Blockchain-based cloudlet management for multimedia workflow in mobile cloud computing", Multimedia Tools and Applications, in press, 2019.

Xuyun Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Zhili Zhou, Shancang Li, Lianyong Qi, Deepak Puthal, "Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Cloud, Fog, and Internet of Things", Security and Communication Networks, in press, 2019.

Wanchun Dou, Wenda Tang, Xiaotong Wu, Liangyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Chunhua Hu, "An insurance theory based optimal cyber-insurance contract against moral hazard", Information Sciences, in press, 2018.

Yang Mu, Ping Wang, Liangfu Lu, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, "Weighted tensor nuclear norm minimization for tensor completion using tensor-SVD", Pattern Recognition Letters, in press, 2018.

Xialong Xu, Shucun Fu, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Qingxiang Liu, Qiang He, Shancang Li, "An IoT-Oriented Data Placement Method with Privacy Preservation in Cloud Environment", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, accepted, 2018.

Zhanyang Xu, Renhao Gu, Tao Huang, Haolong Xiang, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, "An IoT-Oriented Method with Privacy Preservation for Cloudlet-Enabled Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks", Sensors, 18(9), article no. 3030, 2018.

Chao Yan, Xinchun Cui, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, "Privacy-aware Data Publishing and Integration for Collaborative Service Recommendation", IEEE Access, accepted, 2018.

Yun Zhou, Lianyong Qi, Alexander Raake, Tao Xu, Marta Piekarska, Xuyun Zhang, "User Attitudes and Behaviors towards Personalized Control of Privacy Settings on Smartphones", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, accepted, 2018.

Lianyong Qi, Shunmei Meng, Xuyun Zhang, Ruili Wang, Xiaolong Xu, Zhili Zhou, Wanchun Dou, "An Exception Handling Approach for Privacy-Preserving Service Recommendation Failure in a Cloud Environment". Sensors 18(7): article no. 2037, 2018.

Meng Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Qiang He, Jianbing Zhang, "Curve fitting based efficient parameter selection for robust provable data possession", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, accepted, 2018. (ERA ranking A*)

Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Chunhua Hu, Chi Yang, Jinjun Chen, "A Two-stage Locality-Sensitive Hashing Based Approach for Privacy-Preserving Mobile Service Recommendation in Cross-Platform Edge Environment", Future Generation Computer Systems,accepted, 2018.

Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Qiang He, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Zoran Salcic, "MRMondrian: Scalable Multidimensional Anonymisation for Big Data Privacy Preservation", IEEE Transactions on Big Data, accepted, December 2017.

Yanchun Wang, Qiang He, Xuyun Zhang, Dayong Ye, Yun Yang, "Efficient Quality-Aware Service Recommendation for Multi-Tenant Service-Based Systems in Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), accepted, 2017.

Jie Zhang, Zhili Zhou, Shu Li, Leilei Gan, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, "Hybrid computation offloading for smart home automation in mobile cloud computing", Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, in press, 2017.

Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Maqbool Khan, Wanchun Dou, Shengjun Xue, Shui Yu, "A Balanced Virtual Machine Scheduling Method for Energy-Performance Trade-offs in Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems", Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), accepted, 2017.

Lianyong. Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou and Qiang Ni, "A Distributed Locality-Sensitive Hashing-based Approach for Cloud Service Recommendation from Multi-Source Data", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), accepted, 2017.

Qiang He, Rui Zhou, Xuyun Zhang, Yanchun Wang, Dayong Ye, Feifei Chen, John Grundy, Yun Yang, "Keyword Search for Service-Based Systems", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 658-674, 2017. (ERA ranking A*)

Liangyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Zhili Zhou, Xiaolong Xu, Jiguo Yu, "Time-aware IoE Service Recommendation on Sparse Data", Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2016, no. 4397061, pp. 1-12, 2016.

Mahsa Salehi, Christopher Leckie, James C. Bezdek, Tharshan Vaithianathan, Xuyun Zhang, "Fast Memory Efficient Local Outlier Detection in Data Streams", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 3246-3260, 2016.

Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Chunhua Hu, Yuming Zhou, Jiguo Yu, "Structural Balance Theory-based E-commerce Recommendation over Big Rating Data", IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), in press, 2016.

Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Chunhua Hu, Jinjun Chen, "A Traffic Hotline Discovery Method over Cloud of Things Using Big Taxi GPS Data", Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 361-377, 2017.

Mao Lin Huang, Tze-Haw Huang, Xuyun Zhang, "A novel virtual node approach for interactive visual analytics of big datasets in parallel coordinates", Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 55, Issue C, pp. 510-523, 2016.

Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen, "EnReal: An Energy-Aware Resource Allocation Method for Scientific Workflow Executions in Cloud Environment", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC),vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 166-179, 2016.

Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Shunmei Meng, Xuyun Zhang, Chunhua Hu, Shui Yu, Jiang Yang, "An Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling Method for Service QoS Enhancement in Clouds over Big Data", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 29, no. 14, pp. e3909, 2017.

Chang Liu, Rajiv. Ranjan, Chi. Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Lizhe Wang, and Jinjun Chen, "MuR-DPA: Top-down Levelled Multi-replica Merkle Hash Tree Based Secure Public Auditing for Dynamic Big Data Storage on Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 64, no. 9, 2015. (ERA ranking A*)

Chang Liu, Chi Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen, "HKE-BC: Hierarchical Key Exchange for Secure Scheduling and Auditing of Big Data in Cloud Computing", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 646-660, 2016. (ERA ranking A)

Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Jian Pei, Surya Nepal, Chi Yang, Chang Liu, Jinjun Chen, "Proximity-Aware Local-Recoding Anonymization with MapReduce for Scalable Big Data Privacy Preservation in Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 64, no. 8, 2015. (ERA ranking A*)

Chang Liu, Chi Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen, "External Integrity Verification for Outsourced Big Data in Cloud and IoT: A Big Picture", Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 49, no. C, 2015. (ERA ranking A)

Shunmei Meng, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen, "KASR: A Keyword-Aware Service Recommendation Method on MapReduce for Big Data Application", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 25, no. 12, 2015. (ERA ranking A*)

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Jiguo Yu, Xiaona Xia, "Eliminating the Correlations of QoS Criteria in Web Service Selection", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol. 12, no. 2, 2014.

Maolin Huang Liangfu Lu, Xuyun Zhang, "Using Arced Axes in Parallel Coordinates Geometry for High Dimensional Big Data Visual Analytics in Cloud Computing", Springer Computing, vol. 97, no. 4, 2015. (ERA ranking A)

Chi Yang, Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Nepal Surya, Jinjun Chen, "A Time Efficient Approach for Detecting Errors in Big Sensor Data on Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 26, no. 2, 2015. (ERA ranking A*)

Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, Jianxun Liu, Jinjun Chen, "HireSome-II: Towards Privacy-Aware Cross-Cloud Service Composition for Big Data Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 26, no. 2, 2015. (ERA ranking A*)

Chang Liu, JinJun Chen, Laurence T. Yang,Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Rajiv Ranjan, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, "Authorized Public Auditing of Dynamic Big Data Storage on Cloud with Efficient Verifiable Fine-grained Updates", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 25, no. 9, 2014. (ERA ranking A*)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Chi Yang, Wanchun Dou, Jinjun Chen, "A Hybrid Approach for Scalable Sub-Tree Anonymization over Big Data using MapReduce on Cloud", Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 80(5): 1008–1020, 2014. (ERA ranking A*)

Chi Yang, Xuyun Zhang, C. Zhong, Chang Liu, Jian Pei, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jinjun Chen, "A Spatiotemporal Compression based Approach for Efficient Big Data Processing on Cloud", Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), vol. 80, no. 8, 2014. (ERA ranking A*)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Chi Yang, Wanchun Dou and Jinjun Chen, SaC-FRAPP: A Scalable and Cost-effective Framework for Privacy Preservation over Big Data on Cloud, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), vol. 25, no. 18, pp. 2561-2576, 2013. (ERA ranking A)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Suraj Pandey, Jinjun Chen, "A Privacy Leakage Upper-bound Constraint based Approach for Cost-effective Privacy Preserving of Intermediate Datasets in Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 24(6): 1192-1202, 2013. (ERA ranking A*) Third-party implementation and demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaV71DuYOU

Xuyun Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Chang Liu and Jinjun Chen, "A Scalable Two-Phase Top-Down Specialization Approach for Data Anonymization using MapReduce on Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 25(2): 363-373, 2014. (ERA ranking A*)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Jinjun Chen, "An Efficient Quasi-identifier Index based Approach for Privacy Preservation over Incremental Data Sets on Cloud", Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 79(5): 542-555, 2013. (ERA ranking A*)

Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Jinjun Chen, CCBKE - Session Key Negotiation for Fast and Secure Scheduling of Scientific Applications in Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 29(5): 1300-1308, 2013. (ERA ranking A)

Wanchun Dou, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, and Jinjun Chen, "An evaluation method of outsourcing services for developing an elastic cloud platform", The Journal of Supercomputing, 63(1): 1-23 (2013).

Mingzhong Wang, Xuyun Zhang, Liehuang Zhu, Lejian Liao, "Trust-based Workflow Refactoring for Concurrent Scheduling in Service-oriented Environment", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1879-1893, 2013. (ERA ranking A)

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, and Jinjun Chen. A QoS-Aware Composition Method Supporting Cross-Platform Service Invocation in Cloud Environment. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 78(5): 1316-1329 (2012). (ERA ranking A*)

Wanchun Dou, Chao Lv, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen: A Collaborative QoS-Aware Service Evaluation Method Among Multi-Users for a Shared Service. Int. J. Web Service Res. 9(1): 30-50 (2012).

Jianxun Liu, Yiping Wen, Ting Li, Xuyun Zhang: A data-operation model based on partial vector space for batch processing in workflow. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) 23(16): 1936-1950 (2011). (ERA ranking A)

Conferences/Workshops/Posters (47):

Guoming Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, "Context-Aware Point-of-Interest Recommendation Algorithm with Interpretability", 15th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom2019), pp. 745-759, 2019.

Seoyoung Choi, Eli Salter, Xuyun Zhang and Burkhard Wuensche, "Bird Eyes: A Cloud-Based Object Detection System for Customisable Surveillance", the 33rd Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ2018), accepted, 2018.

Sang Nguyen, Zoran Salcic, Xuyun Zhang, "Big Data Processing in Fog – Smart Parking Case Study", The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA2018), accepted, 2018.

Xuyun Zhang, Mahsa Salehi, Christopher Leckie, Yun Luo, Qiang He, Rui Zhou and Rao Kotagiri, "Density Biased Sampling with Locality Sensitive Hashing for Outlier Detection", the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2018), accepted, 2018. (ERA ranking A)

Xiaolong Xu, Yuhao Chen, Lianyong Qi, Jing He, Xuyun Zhang, "A Balanced Cloudlet Management Method for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks", EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM), accepted, 2018.

Xiaolong Xu, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang and Wanchun Dou, "Load Aware Management of Cloudlets for A Wireless Area Metropolitan Network", IEEE International Symposium on Smart City and Informatization, accepted, 2018.

Liangfu Lu, Xinhe Zhu, Xuyun Zhang, Junhan Liu, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan and Guangtai Cui, "One Intrusion Detection Method Based On Uniformed Conditional Dynamic Mutual Information", the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18), accepted, 2018. (ERA ranking A)

Meng Liu, Priyadarsi Nanda, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Shui Yu and Jianxin Li, "Asymmetric Commutative Encryption Scheme Based Efficient Solution to the Millionaires' Problem", the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18), accepted, 2018. (ERA ranking A)

Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Ruili Wang, Wanchun Dou, "An Exception Handling Approach for Privacy-preserving Service Recommendation Failure in A Cloud Environment", in the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS2018), accepted, 2018.

Liangfu Lu, Zhenghai Huang, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Sicong Chen and Yao Wu, “Collaborative Network Traffic Analysis via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers”, the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018), accepted, 2018.

Tao Xu, Yun Zhou, Alexander Raake, and Xuyun Zhang, "Analyzing Impact Factors for Smartphone Sharing Decisions Using Decision Tree", The 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2018), accepted, 2018.

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang and Shui Yu, "Amplified Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Privacy-preserving Distributed Service Recommendation", in The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), accepted, 2017. (Best Paper Award)

Yun Zhou, Alexander Raake, Tao Xu and Xuyun Zhang, "Users' Perceived Control, Trust and Expectation on Privacy Settings of Smartphone", The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS-17), accepted, 2017.

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou and Xuyun Zhang, "Two-phase Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Privacy-preserving Distributed Service Recommendation", The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS-17), accepted, 2017. (Best Paper Award)

Qiang He, Rui Zhou, Xuyun Zhang, Yanchun Wang, Dayong Ye, Feifei Chen, Shiping Chen, John, Grundy and Yun Yang, "Efficient Keyword Search for Building Service-based Systems", The 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC2017), in press, 2017.

Yiwen Zhang, Xiaofei Ai, Qiang He, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Feifei Chen, Liang Chen and Yun Yang, "Personalized Quality Centric Service Recommendation", The 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC2017), in press, 2017.

Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Qiang He, Rui Zhou, Christopher Leckie, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri and Zoran Salcic, "LSHiForest: A Generic Framework for Fast Tree Isolation based Ensemble Anomaly Analysis", the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2017), pp. 983-994, 2017.

Mahsa Salehi, Christopher Leckie, James C. Bezdek, Tharshan Vaithianathan, Xuyun Zhang, "Fast Memory Efficient Local Outlier Detection in Data Streams (Extended Abstract)", the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2017), pp. 51-52, 2017.

Qiang He, Rui Zhou, Xuyun Zhang, Yanchun Wang, Dayong Ye, Feifei Chen, John Grundy, Yun Yang, Keyword Search for Building Service-Based Systems, 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2017), Journal Initiative, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017.

Meng Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Shaoning Pang, Deepak and Kaijun Ren, "Privacy-preserving Detection of Statically Mutually Exclusive Roles Constraints Violation in Interoperable Role-Based Access Control", in The 16th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-17), accepted, 2017.

Lianyong Qi, Haolong Xiang, Wanchun Dou, Chi Yang, Yongrui Qin and Xuyun Zhang, "Privacy-preserving Distributed Service Recommendation based on Locality-Sensitive Hashing", 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS17), accepted, 2017.

Sibghat Bazai, Julian Jang-Jaccard and Xuyun Zhang, "A Privacy Preserving Platform for MapReduce", in The eigth International Conference on Applications and Technologies in Information Security (ATIS2017), accepted, 2017.

Liangfu Lu, Zhenghai Huang, Xuyun Zhang, Sicong Chen and Yao Wu, "Network Traffic Analysis via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers", IJCAI 2017 Workshop: Abuse Preventive Data Mining (APDM2017), accepted, 2017.

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, "An inverse collaborative filtering approach for cold-start problem in web service recommendation", in the ACSW '17: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, accepted, 2017.

Mahsa Salehi, Xuyun Zhang and Christopher Leckie, "Smart Sampling: A Novel Unsupervised Boosting Approach for Outlier Detection", the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016), accepted, 2016.

Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Qiang He, Wanchun Dou, "Scalable Iterative Implementation of Mondrian for Big Data Multidimensional Anonymisation", The Second International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys2016), pp. 311-320, 2016.

Xuyun Zhang, Christopher Leckie, Wanchun Dou, Jinjun Chen, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Zoran Salcic, "Scalable Local-Recoding Anonymization using Locality Sensitive Hashing for Big Data Privacy Preservation", the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), accepted on 20 Jul 2016.

Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang, "Service Recommendation based on Social Balance Theory and Collaborative Filtering", the 14th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016), accepted on 12 Jul 2016.

L. Qi, W. Dou, X. Zhang. Combining Social Balance Theory and Collaborative Filtering for Service Recommendation in Sparse Environment, The 2016 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC2016), accepted, 2016.

L. Qi, X. Zhang, Y. Wen, Y. Zhou. A Context-aware Service Selection Approach based on Historical Records. 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CCBD2015), accepted, 2015.

L. Qi, X. Zhang, Y. Wen, Y. Zhou. A Social Balance Theory-based Service Recommendation Approach. The 2015 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC2015), accepted, 2015.

Chi Yang, Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Surya Nepal and Jinjun Chen, "Querying Streaming XML Big Data with Multiple Filters on Cloud", The 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Engineering (BDSE 2013), pp. 1121-1127, Sydney, Australia, December, 2013.

Chang Liu, Rajiv Ranjan, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos and Jinjun Chen, "Public Auditing for Big Data Storage in Cloud Computing -- A Survey", The 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Engineering (BDSE 2013), pp. 1128-1135, Sydney, Australia, December, 2013.

Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Surya Nepal, Chang Liu, Wanchun Dou, Jinjun Chen, "A MapReduce Based Approach of Scalable Multidimensional Anonymization for Big Data Privacy Preservation on Cloud", Third International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2013): 105-112, Karlsurhe, Germany, 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 24%)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Chi Yang, Wanchun Dou and Jinjun Chen, "Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Scalable Sub-Tree Anonymization over Big Data using MapReduce on Cloud", the 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-13), pp. 501-508, Melbourne, Australia, July, 2013. (ERA ranking A)

Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Chengfei Liu, Yun Yang, Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos and Jinjun Chen, "An Iterative Hierarchical Key Exchange Scheme for Secure Scheduling of Scientific Applications in Cloud Computing", the 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-13), pp. 9-16, Melbourne, Australia, July, 2013. (ERA ranking A)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Wanchun Dou, Jinjun Chen, "Privacy-preserving Layer over MapReduce on Cloud", The 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2012): 304-310, 2012.

Gaofeng Zhang, Yun Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Jinjun Chen, "Key Research Issues for Privacy Protection and Preservation in Cloud Computing", The 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2012): 47-54, 2012.

Gaofeng Zhang, Xuyun Zhang, Yun Yang, Chang Liu, Jinjun Chen, An Association Probability based Noise Generation Strategy for Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing, the 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012): 639-647. (ERA ranking A)

Wanchun Dou, Chao Lv, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen: A QoS-Aware Service Evaluation Method for Co-selecting a Shared Service. The 9th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011): 145-152. (ERA ranking A)

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Jinjun Chen, Wanchun Dou: An Upper-Bound Control Approach for Cost-Effective Privacy Protection of Intermediate Dataset Storage in Cloud. DASC 2011: 518-525.

Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Jinjun Chen, Chi Yang: An Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme for Efficient Security-Aware Scheduling of Scientific Applications in Cloud Computing. DASC 2011: 372-379

Lianyong Qi, Rutao Yang, Wenmin Lin, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Jinjun Chen: A QoS-aware Web Service Selection Method Based on Credibility Evaluation. HPCC 2010: 471-476.

Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou: Preference-Aware QoS Evaluation for Cloud Web Service Composition Based on Artificial Neural Networks. WISM 2010: 410-417

Xiaojie Si, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou: A Novel Local Optimization Method for QoS-Aware Web Service Composition. WISM 2010: 402-409

Junjie Ye, Xuyun Zhang, Guobin Zhang, Jianxin Yu, "One Example of Course Project of Embedded System Education - FTP Design and Implementation", Third International Conference on Education Technology and Training (ETT), pp. 150-153, 2010

Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dow: A Global QoS-Driven Evaluation Strategy for Web Services Composition. ISPA 2009: 595-600.

Books/Chapters/Editorials (6):

D. Puthal, X. Zhang, "Secure Computing for the Internet of Things and Network Edges: Protecting Communication in the Worldwide Network of Devices", IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 7(6): 29-30, 2018.

X. Zhang, J. Jang-Jaccard, L. Qi, Md Z. A. Bhuiyan, and C. Liu, Editorial: Special Issue on "Privacy Issues in Big Data Mining Infrastructure, Platforms, and Applications", Security and Communication Networks, in press, 2018.

S. Bazai, J. Jang-Jaccard, and X. Zhang, "Scalable big data privacy with MapReduce", in Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies (Book), accepted, 2018.

L. Batten, D. Kim, X. Zhang, G. Li, "Applications and Techniques in Information Security - 8th International Conference, ATIS 2017, Auckland, New Zealand, July 6-7, 2017, Proceedings". Communications in Computer and Information Science 719, Springer 2017, ISBN 978-981-10-5420-4

C. Liu, R.Ranjan, X.Zhang, C.Yang and J.Chen, "A Big Picture of Integrity Verification of Big Data in Cloud Computing," in Handbook on Data Centers (Book), S. U. Khan and A. Y. Zomaya, Eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, USA.

Xuyun Zhang, Chang Liu, Surya Nepal, Chi Yang, Jinjun Chen, "Privacy Preservation over Big Data in Cloud Systems", in Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud Systems (Book), Springer, pp. 239-258, ISBN: 978-3-642-38585-8, 2013.

Professional Activities

Coordinator of IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Technical Area: Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks

[PC Co-Chair]

The 2014 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia

The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia

The 2012 International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce (BigDataMR2012), Nov. 01-03, 2012, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.

[PC Member]

The Second International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2014), 20-22 November, 2014, Huangshan, Anhui, China.

The 2nd International Workshop on Cloud and Context for Business Process Management (CCBPM’14), 25-29 August 2014, Beijing, China

The 2013 International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.

The 2nd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2013), 30 Sept.-02 Oct., 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.

The 1st International Workshop on Context for Business Process Management (CBPM’13), with CONTEXT-2013 conference,Haute-Savoie, France, October 28-29, 2013.

The International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud (BDC 2012), in conjunction with WISE2012, Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012

The 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012), 1-3 November, 2012, Xiangtan, China.

[Conference Secretary and Web Chair]

The International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), 12-14 December, 2011, Sydney, Australia.

Peer Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Computers

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

IEEE Transactions on Service Computing

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Future Generation Computer Systems

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Springer Computing Journal

Expert Systems with Applications

Wireless Networks

Journal of Computer Science and Technology