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Ph. D., Professor, Chair, Highly Cited Researcher of Clarivate 2021-2023

School of Software

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Email: xlxu{at}ieee{dot}org

About Me

Xiaolong Xu is currently a full professor at the school of computer and software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He worked as a researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (2017-2018). He studied his PhD degree (2013~2016) in the State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University. His research interest includes Cloud Computing, Big Data, Edge Computing, Deep Learning, and Federated Edge Learning (robust & trustable AI learning at the edge). He has published over 100 peer-review papers in international journals and conferences, including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSC, ACM TOSN, IEEE TITS, IEEE TII, ACM TOIT, ACM TOMM, ACM TIST, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOT, IEEE TCC, IEEE TBD, IEEE TCSS, IEEE TETCI, Software: Practice and Experience, World Wide Web journal, Information Sciences, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Computational Intelligence, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, ACM SIGIR, IJCAI, IEEE ICWS, ICSOC, etc. He was selected as the Highly Cited Researcher of Clarivate 2021-2023. He received the Best Paper Award from Journal of Network and Computer Applications at 2022, the Editor's Choice Paper Award from Future Generation Computer Systems at 2022, the top citation award from Computational Intelligence Journal, the Best Paper Awards from IEEE HPCC 2023, IEEE ISPA 2022, IEEE CBD 2016, IEEE CPSCom 2020, SPDE 2020, IEEE CyberSciTech 2021, IEEE ATC 2022, IEEE iThings 2022, CENET 2021, and EAI Cloudcomp 2021, and the Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE SmartCity 2022 and EAI Cloudcomp 2019 , the best student paper award from EAI Cloudcomp 2019, and the Best Session Paper from IEEE DSAA 2020. He also received the Outstanding Leadership Award from IEEE UIC 2022.

News (2024)

Publications

2024

[IJCAI] Xiaolong Xu, Chenbin Li, Haolong Xiang, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou. Attention Based Document-level Relation Extraction with None Class Ranking Loss. IJCAI, 2024.  (CCF-A类)

[ACM SIGIR] Xiaolong Xu, Hongsheng Dong, Lianyong Qi*, Xuyun Zhang*, Haolong Xiang, Xiaoyu Xia, Wanchun Dou. CMCLRec: Cross-modal Contrastive Learning for User Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation, ACM SIGIR, 2024. (CCF-A, 推荐系统TOP会议)

[SCIS] Xiaolong Xu, Fan Wu, Muhammad Bilal, Xiaoyu Xia, Wanchun Dou*, Lina Yao, Weiyi Zhong. XRL-SHAP-Cache: An Explainable Reinforcement Learning Approach for Intelligent Edge Service Caching in Content Delivery Networks. Science China-Information Sciences, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s11432-023-3987-y.CCF-AIF= 8.8

[IEEE WCM] Xiaolong Xu, Xuanhong Zhou, Xiaokang Zhou, Muhammad Bilal, Lianyong Qi, Xiaoyu Xia, Wanchun Dou. Distributed Edge Caching for Zero Trust-Enabled Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2024. SCI一区)

[IEEE TITS]Qinting Jiang, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Jon Crowcraft, Qi Liu, Wanchun Dou, Jingyan Jiang*. Potential Game based Distributed IoV Service Offloading with Graph Attention Networks in Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024. SCI一区,CAA-ACCF-BIF=8.5

[IEEE TCE] Wei Liu, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Xiaokang Zhou*, Hanzhi Yan, Xiaoyu Xia, Wanchun Dou. Digital Twin-Assisted Edge Service Caching for Consumer Electronics Manufacturing. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2024.3357136.c (SCI二区)

[IEEE TAI] Yuhao Hu, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Xiaokang Zhou*, Xiaoyu Xia,“Latency and Privacy Aware Convolutional Neural Network Distributed Inference for Reliable Artificial Intelligence Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024.

[IEEE JSTARS] Jun liu, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Jielin Jiang, "FADNet:Greenhouse Identification with Fusion Attention Mechanism and Deformable Convolution," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3374630.SCI三区, IF= 5.5, 通讯作者)

[ACM TOIT] Jiakun Gao, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Xiaoyu Xia, Xiaokang Zhou*. Distributed Computation Offloading and Power Control for UAV-Enabled Internet of Medical Things. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2024.SCI三区,CCF-BIF= 5.3,通讯作者)

[CJE] Liang Yao, Xiaolong Xu*, Wanchun Dou, Muhammad Bilal. An Intelligent Privacy Protection Scheme for Efficient Edge Computation Offloading in IoV. Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2024. DOI:  10.23919/cje.2023.00.111.( CCF-T1,  IF=1.2,通讯作者)

2023

[IEEE CMG] Xiaolong Xu, Sizhe Tang, Lianyong Qi, Xiaokang Zhou, Fei Dai, Wanchun Dou. CNN Partitioning and Offloading for Vehicular Edge Networks in Web3. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023. (SCI一区,IF= 9.030)

[IEEE TII] Xiaolong Xu, Haoyuan Li, Zheng Li, Xiaokang Zhou. Safe: Synergic Data Filtering for Federated Learning in Cloud-Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1655-1665, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TII.2022.3195896.(SCI一区,CAA-A,IF= 12.3)

[IEEE JSAC] Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu*, Xiaotong Wu, Qiang Ni, Yuan Yuan, Xuyun Zhang. Digital-Twin-Enabled 6G Mobile Network Video Streaming Using Mobile Crowdsourcing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2023. (CCF-A, IF = 16.4, SCI一区)

[IJCAI] Haolong Xiang, Hongsheng Hu, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Mark Dras, Amin Beheshti and Xuyun Zhang*. OptIForest: Optimal Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection, IJCAI, 2023 .(CCF-A, 通讯作者)

[IEEE TITS] Xuanhong Zhou, Muhammad Bilal, Ruihan Dou, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Qingzhan Zhao, Jianguo Dai, Xiaolong Xu*. Edge Computation Offloading with Content Caching in 6G-enabled IoV. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023. (SCI一区,IF= 9.471,Corresponding)

[IEEE IOT] Hanzhi Yan, Hanwen Li, Xiaolong Xu*,Muhammad Bilal, UAV-Enhanced Service Caching for IoT Systems in Extreme Environments, IEEE Internet of Things, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3288200.(SCI一区, 通讯作者, IF= 10.6)

[TST] Hanwen Li, Mingtao Sun, Fan Xia, Xiaolong Xu*, and Muhammad Bilal. A Survey of Edge Caching: Key Issues and Challenges. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2023. DOI: 10.26599/TST.2023.9010079. (SCI一区)

[INFSOF] Xudong Zhao, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi*, Xiaoyu Xia, Muhammad Bilal, Wenwen Gong and Huaizhen Kou. Unraveling Quantum Computing System Architectures: An Extensive Survey of Cutting-Edge Paradigms. Information and Software Technology, 2023. (CCF-B, SCI二区)

[IEEE HPCC] Lianyong Qi, Boyuan Yan, Jiaqi Zheng, Xiaolong Xu*, WanchunDou, Xiaokang Zhou. A Deep Graph Convolutional Network based WebAPI Classification Approach for Mashup Creation, IEEE HPCC, 2023.(CCF-C,最佳论文奖)

[IEEE TII] Zheng Li, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Jielin Jiang, Yan Cui. Federated Learning based Cross-Enterprise Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 673-682, 2023. (SCI一区,CAA-A,IF= 12.3)

[IEEE JSYST] Chenyi Yang, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Yiping Wen, Tao Huang. Deep-Deterministic-Policy-Gradient-Based Task Offloading With Optimized -Means in Edge-Computing-Enabled IoMT Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2023.3311454.(SCI二区)

[IEEE TNSE] Zhongjian Liu , Xiaolong Xu* , Feng Han , Qingzhan Zhao , lianyong Qi , Wanchun Dou. Xiaokang Zhou*,  ment with Non-Cooperative Game for Internet of Vehicles in Web 3.0, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2023.3321139.(SCI二区)

[IEEE TIV] Ke Meng, Zhongjian Liu, Xiaolong Xu*, Xiaoyu Xia, Hao Tian, Lianyong Qi and Xiaokang Zhou. Heterogeneous Edge Service Deployment for Cyber Physical Social Intelligence in Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023. (SCI二区)

[IEEE TCE] Wen Wang, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Maqbool Khan, Yizhou Xing. UAV-Assisted Content Caching for Human-Centric Consumer Applications in IoV. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2023. (SCI二区,CAA-A, IF= 5,通讯作者)

[IEEE TCE] Hanzhi Yan, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Xiaoyu Xia, Wanchun Dou, Huihui Wang. Customer Centric Service Caching for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems with Cloud-Edge Computing leveraging Digital Twins. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3326969. (通讯作者, SCI二区)

[IEEE TCE] Guoqiang Liu, Guanming Bao, Muhammad Bilal, Angel Jones, Zhipeng Jing, Xiaolong Xu*. Edge Data Caching with Consumer-Centric Service Prediction in Resilient Industry 5.0. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3327847, 2023. (通讯作者, SCI二区)

[IEEE JSTARS] Huichao Lin, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Yong Cheng and Dongqing Liu. Intelligent Retrieval of Radar Reflectivity Factor with Privacy Protection under Meteorological Satellite Remote Sensing[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023. (SCI三区, IF= 5.5, 通讯作者)

[IJMLC] Mengmeng Cui, Ruibin Huang, Zhichen Hu, Fan Xia, Xiaolong Xu* and Lianyong Qi. Semantic Rule-based Information Extraction for Meteorological Reports. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2023. (SCI三区, 通讯作者, IF= 5.6)

[EXSY] Xiaotong Wu, Jiaquan Gao, Muhammad Bilal, Fei Dai, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou. Federated learning-based private medical knowledge graph for epidemic surveillance in internet of things. Expert Systems. First published: 11 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13372.(SCI四区, IF=3.3, 通讯作者)

[IASC] Zheng Yu, Xiaolong Xu*, Jielin Jiang, Muhammad Bilal, Dongqing Liu, "DMKG: Deep Learning-Driven Meteorological Knowledge Graph for Decision-Making", Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, 2023. (SCI四区, 通讯作者, IF=2.0)

[CJE] Liang Yao, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, Muhammad Bilal. An Intelligent Privacy Protection Scheme for Efficient Edge Computation Offloading in IoV. Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2024. DOI:  10.23919/cje.2023.00.111.( SCI四区,  IF=1.2,通讯作者)

[ACM SIGIR] Qiang He, Siyu Tan, Feifei Chen, Xiaolong Xu, Lianyong Qi, Xinhong Hei, Albert Zomaya, Hai Jin and Yun Yang. EDIndex: Enabling Fast Data Queries in Edge Storage Systems. ACM SIGIR, 2023, Acceptance rate = 20.1%(CCF-A)

[IEEE ICWS] Xiao Liu, Shunmei Meng, Qianmu Li, Xiaolong Xu, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou, Jing Zhang and Xuyun Zhang, "Disentangled Hypergraph Collaborative Filtering for Social Recommendation,"  IEEE ICWS, 2023.

2022

[IEEE TFS] Xiaolong Xu, Qinting Jiang, Peiming Zhang, Xuefei Cao, Mohammad R. Khosravi, Linss T. Alex, Lianyong Qi and Wanchun Dou. Game Theory for Distributed IoV Task Offloading with Fuzzy Neural Network in Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2022.(IF=12.029)

[IEEE TKDE] Lianyong Qi, Wenmin Lin, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu*, and Jinjun Chen. A Correlation Graph based Approach for Personalized and Compatible Web APIs Recommendation in Mobile APP Development. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2022. (CCF-A, IF=6.977)

[IEEE TITS] Wentao Liu, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianxiang Wu, Lianyong Qi, Alireza Jolfaei, Weiping Ding and Mohammad R. Khosravi, Intrusion Detection for Maritime Transportation Systems with Batch Federated Aggregation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2022) (CCF-B,IF= 6.492)

[IEEE TITS] Liang Yao, Xiaolong Xu*, Muhammad Bilal, Huihui Wang. Dynamic Edge Computation Offloading for Internet of Vehicles with Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022. (CCF-B,IF= 6.492)

[IEEE TCSS] Hanzhi Yan, Muhammad Bilal, Xiaolong Xu*, S. Vimal.Edge Server Deployment for Health Monitoring with Reinforcement Learning in Internet of Medical Things. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3161996.((CAA-A)

[WINET] Zhongjian Liu, Xiaolong Xu*. Latency-Aware Service Migration with Decision Theory for Internet of Vehicles in Mobile Edge Computing. Wireless Networks. (SCI三区,CCF-C, IF= 2.602)

[ACM SIGIR] Wenwen Gong, Xuyun Zhang, Yifei Chen, Qiang He, Amin Beheshti, Xiaolong Xu*, Chao Yan, Lianyong Qi*. DAWAR: Diversity-aware Web APIs Recommendation for Mashup Creation based on Correlation Graph. ACM SIGIR, 2022 (CCF-A).

[IEEE ICWS] Hanzhi Yan, Xiaolong Xu*, Fei Dai, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou. Service Caching for Meteorologicalc Emergency Decision-making in Cloud-Edge Computing, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2022. (Acceptance rate = 14%)

[IEEE TSC] Xiaolong Xu, Hao Tian, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Qiang He, Wanchun Dou. DisCOV: Distributed COVID-19 Detection on X-Ray Images with Edge-Cloud Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2022.

2021

[ACM TIST] Xiaolong Xu, Wentao Liu, Yulan Zhang, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Lianyong Qi and Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan. PSDF: Privacy-Aware IoV Service Deployment with Federated Learning in Cloud-Edge Computing. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2021.

[WSDM] Xiaotong Wu, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Shui Yu, Wanchun Dou, Xuyun Zhang. Crowdsourcing-based Multi-Device Communication Cooperation for Mobile High-Quality Video Enhancement, in Proceedings of The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022.

[IEEE TVT] Hao Tian, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Shui Yu, Qiang Ni. CoPace: Edge Computation Offloading and Caching for Self-Driving with Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021.

[ICSOC'21]   Ruichao Mo, Xiaolong Xu*, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi and Qi Liu. Computation Offloading and Resource Management for Energy and Cost Trade-offs with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing. ICSOC, 2021, TBD.

[IEEE TII] Dawei Zhu, Muhammad Bilal, Xiaolong Xu*. Edge Task Migration with 6G-Enabled Network in Box for Cybertwin based Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2021.3113879.

[WWWj] Hao Tian, Xiaolong Xu*, Tingyu Lin, Yong Cheng, Cheng Qian, Lei Ren, Muhammad Bilal. DIMA: Distributed Cooperative Microservice Caching for Internet of Things in Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning. World Wide Web journal, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s11280-021-00939-7.

[CIKM'21] Wei Shen, Chuheng Zhang, Yun Tian, Liang Zeng, Xiaonan He, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu. Inductive Matrix Completion Using Graph Autoencoder. Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 2021.

[ICWS'21] Wentao Liu, Xiaolong Xu*, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang and Wanchun Dou. GoDeep: Intelligent IoV Service Deployment and Execution with Privacy Preservation in Cloud-edge Computing, IEEE ICWS, 2021. TBD.

[ICWS'21] Qinting Jiang, Xiaolong Xu*, Qiang He, Xuyun Zhang, Fei Dai, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou. Game Theory-Based Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Vehicular Networks in Edge-Cloud Computing, IEEE ICWS, 2021. TBD.

[IEEE IOT] Xiaolong Xu, Liang Yao, Muhammad Bilal, Shaohua Wan, Fei Dai, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. Service Migration across Edge Devices in 6G-enabled Internet of Vehicles Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. TBD.

[NEUCOM] Xiaotong Wu, Lianyong Qi, Jiaquan Gao, Genlin Ji, Xiaolong Xu*. An Ensemble of Random Decision Trees with Local Differential Privacy in Edge Computing. Neurocomputing, 2021. TBD.

[IEEE TCSS] Dawei Zhu, Zhanyang Xu, Xiaolong Xu, Qingzhan Zhao, Lianyong Qi, Gautam Srivastava. Cognitive Analytics of Social Media Services for Edge Resource Pre-Allocation in Industrial Manufacturing. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems,  vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 500-511. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2021.3052231.

[ACM TOSN] Xiaolong Xu, Zijie Fang, Jie Zhang, Qiang He, Dongxiao Yu, Lianyong Qi*, Wanchun Dou. Edge Content Caching with Deep Spatiotemporal Residual Network for IoV in Smart City. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2021.  TBD

[ACM TOMM] Xiaolong Xu, Qihe Huang, Yiwen Zhang,Shancang Li, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou. An LSH-Based Offloading Method for IoMT Services in Integrated Cloud-Edge Environment, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, vol. 16, no. 3s, pp. 1-19, 2021( Q1, IF = 2.87 )

2020 

[IEEE TITS] Xiaolong Xu, Qihe Huang, Haibin Zhu, Suraj Sharma, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi*, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan. Secure Service Offloading for Internet of Vehicles in SDN-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3034197. (Q1, Top Journal, IF=6.319) 

[IEEE TII] Xiaolong Xu, Bowen Shen, Sheng Ding, Gautam Srivstava, Muhammad Bilal, Mohammad R. Khosravi, Varun G Menon, Mian Ahmed Jan, Maoli Wang*, Service Offloading with Deep Q-Network for Digital Twinning Empowered Internet of Vehicles in Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2020.3040180  (Q1, Top Journal, IF=9.112)

[CIKM'20] Haolong Xiang, Zoran Salcic, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Lianyong Qi and Xuyun Zhang. OPHiForest: Order Preserving Hashing Based Isolation Forest for Robust and Scalable Anomaly Detection. The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2020. (CCF-B, Acceptance rate = 21% ). 

[IEEE TII] Xiaolong Xu, Ruichao Mo, Xiaochun Yin, Mohanmmad R. Khosravi, Fahimeh Aghaei, Victor Chang, Guangshun Li. PDM: Privacy-Aware Deployment of Machine-Learning Applications for Industrial Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2020.3031440.  (Q1, Top Journal, IF=9.112)

[IEEE TITS] Shaohua Wan, Xiaolong Xu, Tian Wang, Zonghua Gu. An Intelligent Video Analysis Method for Abnormal Event Detection in Intelligent Transportation Systems.  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3017505.   (Q1, Top Journal, IF=6.319) 

[IEEE TITS] Xiaolong Xu, Qihe Huang, Haibin Zhu, Suraj Sharma, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi*, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan.. Secure Service Offloading for Internet of Vehicles in SDN-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3034197.    (Q1, Top Journal, IF=6.319) 

[ComCom] Xiaotong Wu, Mohammad Reza Khosravi, Lianyong Qi, Genlin Ji, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu*. Locally Private Frequency Estimation of Physical Symptoms for Infectious Disease Analysis in Internet of Medical Things, Computer Communications, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2020.08.015. 

[IEEE TITS] Shaohua Wan, Renhao Gu, Tariq Umer, Khaled Salah, Xiaolong Xu*. Toward Offloading Internet of Vehicles Applications in 5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3017596.   (Q1, Top Journal, IF=6.319) 

[ACM TOMM] Lianyong Qi, Houbing Song, Xuyun Zhang, Gautam Srivastava, Xiaolong Xu*, Shui Yu. Compatibility-aware Web APIs Recommendation for Mashup Creation via Textual Description Mining. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, 2020.  

[TST] Xiaolong Xu, Haoyuan Li, Weijie Xu, Zhongjian Liu, Liang Yao, Fei Dai. Artificial Intelligence for Edge Service Optimization in Internet of Vehicles: A Survey. Tsinghua Science and Technology,  2020, DOI: 10.26599/TST.2020.901. 

[IEEE IOT] Xiaolong Xu, Qihe Huang, Xiaochun Yin, Mahdi Abbasi, Mohammad Khosravi, Lianyong Qi*. Intelligent Offloading for Collaborative Smart City Services in Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3000871. (Q1, IF=9.515,TOP journal)

[ACM TOMM] Xiaolong Xu, Zijie Fang, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Qiang He, Xiaokang Zhou. TripRes: Traffic Flow Prediction Driven Resource Reservation for Multimedia IoV with Edge Computing. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2020. ( Q1, IF = 2.87 )

[ICWS'20] Zijie Fang, Xiaolong Xu*, Fei Dai, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou. Computation Offloading and Content Caching with Traffic Flow Prediction for Internet of Vehicles in Edge Computing,  IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2020. (Top Conference,Acceptance rate = 19%)

[ICWS'20] Bowen Shen, Xiaolong Xu*, Fei Dai, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou. Dynamic Task Offloading with Minority Game for Internet of Vehicles in Cloud-Edge Computing,  IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2020.  (Top Conference,Acceptance rate = 19%)

[ACM TOIT] Xiaolong Xu, Dawei Zhu, Xiaoxian Yang, Shuo Wang, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou. Concurrent Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Integration of Blockchain and Supply Chain. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2020, DOI: 10.1145/3395331. (Q2, IF=2.382)

[INS] Xiaolong Xu, Xihua Liu, Xiaochun Yin, Shoujin Wang, Quan Qi, Lianyong Qi.  Privacy-Aware Offloading for Training Tasks of Generative Adversarial Network in Edge Computing. Information Sciences, 2020. (Q1, IF=5.524,TOP journal)

[IEEE TITS] Xiaolong Xu, Xing Zhang, Xihua Liu, Jielin Jiang, Lianyong Qi, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan. Adaptive Computation Offloading with Edge for 5G-Envisioned Internet of Connected Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.2982186.   (Q1,IF = 5.744,TOP journal). 

[IEEE TITS] Xiaolng Xu, Qi Wu,  Lianyong Qi, Wancun Dou, Sang-Bing Tsai, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan. Trust-aware Service Offloading for Video Surveillance in Edge Computing Enabled Internet of Vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020.   (Q1,IF = 5.744,TOP journal)

[IEEE TII] Xiaolong Xu, Bowen Shen, Xiaochun Yin, Mohammad Khosravi, Huaming Wu, Lianyong Qi, Shaohua Wan. Edge Server Quantification and Placement for Offloading Social Media Services in Industrial Cognitive IoV, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020. (Q1,TOP journal,IF=9.112) 

[IEEE TII] 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, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 4187 - 4195, 2020.  (Q1,TOP journal,IF=9.112) 

[WWWj] 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, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1275-1297, 2020. (Corresponding Author) 

[CCPE] Xiaolong Xu, Hao Cao, Qingfan Geng, Xihua Liu, Fei Dai*, Chuanjian Wang. Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Workflow Scheduling under Uncertainty in Edge Computing Environment. Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience, 2020, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5674 .

[IEEE TNSE] Lianyong Qi, Xiaokang Wang, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, Shancang Li. Privacy-Aware Cross-Platform Service Recommendation based on Enhanced Locality-Sensitive Hashing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2020.2969489.

[FGCS] 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, vol. 105, pp. 789-799, 2020.   

2019 

[CI] Xiaolong Xu, Shucun Fu, Yuan Yuan, Yun Luo, Lianyong Qi, Wenmin Lin, Wanchun Dou*. Multi-Objective Computation Offloading for Workflow Management in Cloudlet-Based Mobile Cloud Using NSGA-II. Computational Intelligence,  vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 476-495, 2019.

[MONET] Shaohua Wan, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Chao Tong, Zonghua Gu. Deep Learning Models for Real-time Human Activity Recognition with Smartphones, Mobile Networks and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s11036-019-01445-x.

[IEEE TII] Xiaolong Xu, Ruichao Mo, Fei Dai*, Wenmin Lin, Shaohua Wan, Wanchun Dou. Dynamic Resource Provisioning with Fault Tolerance for Data-Intensive Meteorological Workflows in Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2959258.  (Q1,TOP journal,IF=9.112) 

[IEEE IOT] Xiaolong Xu, Xihua Liu, Zhanyang Xu, Fei Dai, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi. Trust-Oriented IoT Service Placement for Smart Cities in Edge Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2959124. (Q1, IF=9.515,TOP journal)

[TrustCom] Hao Cao, Xiaolong Xu, Qingxiang Liu, Yuan Xue, Lianyong Qi. Uncertainty-Aware Resource Provisioning for Workflow Scheduling in Edge Computing  Environment. 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom), pp. 734-739, 2019. 

[MONET] Xiaolong Xu, Xihua Liu, Zhanyang Xu, Chuanjian Wang, Shaohua Wan, Xiaoxian Yang. Joint Optimization of Resource Utilization and Load Balance with Privacy Preservation for Edge Services in 5G Networks. Mobile Networks and Applications, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s11036-019-01448-8.

[TJSC] Shaohua Wan, Xiang Li, Yuan Xue, Wenmin Lin, Xiaolong Xu*. Efficient computation offloading for Internet of Vehicles in edge computing-assisted 5G networks.  Journal of Supercomputing, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-019-03011-4.

[IEEE IOT] Xiaolong Xu, Chengxun He, Zhanyang Xu, Lianyong Qi*, Shaohua Wan, MZA Bhuiyan. Joint Optimization of Offloading Utility and Privacy for Edge Computing Enabled IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019, Doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2944007. (Q1, IF=9.515,TOP journal)

[WIN] Xiaolong Xu, Renhao Gu, Fei Dai, Lianyong Qi, Shaohua Wan. Multi-Objective Computation Offloading for Internet of Vehicles in Cloud-Edge Computing, Wireless Networks, DOI: 2019, 10.1007/s11276-019-02127-y.

[SPE] Xiaolong Xu, Yi Chen, Xuyun Zhang, Qingxiang Liu, Xihua Liu, Lianyong Qi*. A Blockchain-based Computation Offloading Method for Edge Computing in 5G Networks, Software: Practice and Experience, 2019, DOI:10.1002/spe.2749.

[ICSOC'19] Xiaolong Xu, Yuan Xue, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Shaohua Wan, Wanchun Dou, Victor Chang. Load-aware Edge Server Placement for Mobile Edge Computing in 5G networks. The 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, 2019. (Accept Rate: 15%)

[MTAP] 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, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-07900-x.  

[ICWS'19] Xiaolong Xu, Shucun Fu, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou. A Multi-Objective Crowdsourcing Method for Mobile Video Streaming. The International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2019. 

[WCMC] Zheng, Yu, Xiaolong Xu, and Lianyong Qi. "Deep CNN-Assisted Personalized Recommendation over Big Data for Mobile Wireless Networks." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2019 (2019). 

[IEEE TCSS] Xiaolong Xu, Qingxiang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Jie Zhang, Lianyong Qi, and Wanchun Dou. A Blockchain-Powered Crowdsourcing Method with Privacy Preservation in Mobile Environment. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1407 - 1419, 2019.  

[IEEE TCSS]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, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2906925.  (Corresponding Author)

[IEEE TETCI] Xiaolong Xu, Shucun Fu, Weimin Li, Fei Dai, Honghao Gao, Victor Chang. Multi-Objective Data Placement for Workflow Management in Cloud Infrastructure Using NSGA-II. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2019.

[MONET] Xiaolong Xu, Xihua Liu, Lianyong Qi, Yuhao Chen, Zihao Ding, Jiangang Shi. Energy-Efficient Virtual Machine Scheduling across Cloudlets in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks. Mobile Networks and Applications, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s11036-019-01242-6 .

[INS] Lianyong Qi, Ruili Wang, Chunhua Hu, Shancang Li, Qiang He, and Xiaolong Xu. "Time-aware distributed service recommendation with privacy-preservation." Information Sciences, vol. 480, pp. 354-364, 2019. 

[FGCS] Shunmei Meng, Lianyong Qi, Qianmu Li, Wenmin Lin, Xiaolong Xu, and Shaohua Wan. "Privacy-preserving and sparsity-aware location-based prediction method for collaborative recommender systems." Future Generation Computer Systems , vol. 96, pp. 324-335, 2019. 

[FGCS] Xu, Xiaolong, Yuan Xue, Lianyong Qi, Yuan Yuan, Xuyun Zhang, Tariq Umer, and 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.

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

[JNCA] Xiaolong Xu, Yuancheng Li, Tao Huang, Yuan Xue, Kai Peng, Lianyong Qi, Wanchun Dou. An Energy-Aware Computation Offloading Method for Smart Edge Computing in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 133, pp. 75-85, 2019.  

2018

[IEEE TBD] Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Chunhua Hu, Yuming Zhou, and Jiguo Yu. "Structural balance theory-based e-commerce recommendation over big rating data." IEEE Transactions on Big Data 4, no. 3 (2018): 301-312. 

[FGCS] Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Xiang Liu, Laurence T. Yang, and Yiping Wen. "A Resource Co-Allocation method for load-balance scheduling over big data platforms." Future Generation Computer Systems 86 (2018): 1064-1075. 

[PUC] Jie Zhang, Zhili Zhou, Shu Li, Leilei Gan, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, and Wanchun Dou. "Hybrid computation offloading for smart home automation in mobile cloud computing." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 22, no. 1 (2018): 121-134. 

[FGCS] Yiping Wen, Jianxun Liu, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Buqing Cao, and Jinjun Chen. "Scheduling workflows with privacy protection constraints for big data applications on cloud." Future Generation Computer Systems (2018).

[UIC'18] Jie Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Yuan Yuan, Xiaolong Xu, and Wanchun Dou. "A Workflow Scheduling Method for Cloudlet Management in Mobile Cloud." In 2018 IEEE Ubiquitous Intelligence (UIC), pp. 932-937. IEEE, 2018.

[ICSOC'18] Shunmei Meng, Qianmu Li, Shiping Chen, Shui Yu, Lianyong Qi, Wenmin Lin, Xiaolong Xu, and Wanchun Dou. "Temporal-Sparsity Aware Service Recommendation Method via Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Techniques." In International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, pp. 421-429. Springer, Cham, 2018. 

[INS'18] Wanchun Dou, Wenda Tang, Xiaotong Wu, Lianyong Qi, Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, and Chunhua Hu. "An insurance theory based optimal cyber-insurance contract against moral hazard." Information Sciences (2018). 

[WCMC] Kai Peng, Victor Leung, Xiaolong Xu, Lixin Zheng, Jiabin Wang, and Qingjia Huang. "A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: Focusing on Service Adoption and Provision." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018 (2018).

[JNCA] Xiaolong 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, vol. 124, pp. 148-157, 2018.  

[CCPE] Xiaolong Xu, Qing Cai, Guoming Zhang, Jie Zhang, Wei Tian, Xiaorui Zhang, Alex X. Liu. An Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Markets with Social Welfare Maximization in Cloud-Edge Computing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2018. 

[SCN] Xiaolong Xu, Rui Huang, Ruihan Dou, Yuancheng Li, Jie Zhang, Tao Huang, Wenbin Yu. Energy-Efficient Cloudlet Management for Privacy Preservation in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, Security and Communication Networks, 2018. 

[WCMC] Xiaolong Xu, Shucun Fu, Qing Cai, Wei Tian, Wenjie Liu, Wanchun Dou, Xingming Sun, Alex X. Liu. Dynamic Resource Allocation for Load Balancing in Fog Environment. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018.

2017

[CCPE] Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Shunmei Meng, Xuyun Zhang, Chunhua Hu, Shui Yu, and Jian Yang. "An energy‐aware virtual machine scheduling method for service QoS enhancement in clouds over big data." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 29, no. 14 (2017): e3909. 

[ICC'17] Maqbool Khan, Xiaotong Wu, Xiaolong Xu, and Wanchun Dou. "Big data challenges and opportunities in the hype of Industry 4.0." In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017. 

[CC] Shengjun Xue, Yiyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu*, Guowen Xing, Haolong Xiang, and Sai Ji. QET: a QoS-based energy-aware task scheduling method in cloud environment." Cluster Computing 20, no. 4 (2017): 3199-3212. (corresponding author)

[CC] Shengjun Xue, Yue Peng, Xiaolong Xu*, Jie Zhang, Chao Shen, and Feng Ruan. "DSM: a dynamic scheduling method for concurrent workflows in cloud environment." Cluster Computing (2017): 1-14. (corresponding author)

[SPE] 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.  

[SCN] Xiaolong Xu, Xuan Zhao, Feng Ruan, Jie Zhang, Wei Tian, Wanchun Dou, Alex X. Liu. Data Placement for Privacy-Aware Applications over Big Data in Hybrid Clouds. Security and Communication Networks, 2017. 

2016 

[ICWS'16] Shunmei Meng, Song Wang, Taotao Wu, Duanchao Li, Taigui Huang, XiaoTong Wu, Xiaolong Xu, and Wanchun Dou. "An uncertainty-aware evolutionary scheduling method for cloud service provisioning." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), pp. 506-513. IEEE, 2016. 

[IM] Zuojian Zhou, Wanchun Dou, Guochao Jia, Chunhua Hu, Xiaolong Xu, Xiaotong Wu, and Jingui Pan. "A method for real-time trajectory monitoring to improve taxi service using GPS big data." Information & Management 53, no. 8 (2016): 964-977. 

[HPCC'16] Jun Yang, Xiaolong Xu, Wenda Tang, Chunhua Hu, Wanchun Dou, and Jinjun Chen. "A Task Scheduling Method for Energy-Performance Trade-off in Clouds." In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, pp. 1029-1036. IEEE, 2016. 

[GLOBECOM'16] Haolong Xiang, Xiaolong Xu, Haoquan Zheng, Shu Li, Taotao Wu, Wanchun Dou, and Shui Yu. "An adaptive cloudlet placement method for mobile applications over GPS big data." In 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2016. 

[TCC] 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, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 166-179, 2016.  

[CBD'16] Xiaolong Xu, Wengping Wang, Taotao Wu, Wanchun Dou, Shui Yu. A Virtual Machine Scheduling Method for Trade-offs Between Energy and Performance in Cloud Environment. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, pp. 246-251, 2016.(Best Paper Award) 

2015 

[CBD'15] Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Shunmei Meng, and Shui Yu. "An energy-aware QoS enhanced method for service computing across clouds and data centers." In 2015 Third International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, pp. 80-87. IEEE, 2015.