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Edited Books and Volumes

  1. Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies. Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Schahram Dustdar (Eds.), Chapman and Hall/CRC. 2010, to appear.

  2. Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks. Damith C. Ranasinghe, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally (Eds.), Springer. 2010, to appear.

  3. Web-Based Information Technologies and Distributed Systems. Alban Gabillon, Quan Z. Sheng, Wathiq Mansoor (Eds.), Atlantis Press. 2010, to appear.

  4. Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2005. Anne H.H. Ngu, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Eric Neuhold, Jen-Yao Chung, Quan Z. Sheng (Eds.), (LNCS 3806), ISBN: 3-540-30017-1, Springer. November 20-22 2005, New York, USA.

  5. Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2005 Workshops. Mike Dean; Yuanbo Guo, Woochun Jun, Roland Kaschek, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Zhengxiang Pan, Quan Z. Sheng (Eds.), (LNCS 3807), ISBN: 3-540-30017-1, Springer. November 20-22 2005, New York, USA.

  6. The First International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2007). Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Mark Cameron (Eds.). June 12 2007, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

  7. The 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007). David S. Munro, Hong Shen, Quan Z. Sheng, et al. (Eds.). IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN: 0-7695-3049-4. December 3-6, 2007, Adelaide, Australia.

  8. The International Workshop on Context-Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008) . Quan Z. Sheng, Ullas Nambiar, Amit P. Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, Zakaria Maamar, and Said Elnaffar (Eds.). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (AICPS) Volume 292, ISBN: 978-1-60558-107-1.ACM Press. April 22, 2008, Beijing, China. [LINK]

  9. The Second International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2008). Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Sherali Zeadally, Mark Cameron (Eds.). June 12 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

  10. The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2009). Quan Z. Sheng, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Sherali Zeadally, Zakaria Maamar (Eds.). May 6 2009, Milan, Italy.

  11. Special issue on RFID: Technologies, Applications, and Trends. Quan Z. Sheng, Mark A. Cameron, Sherali Zeadally, and Zakaria Maamar (Eds.). International Journal on Internet Protocol Technology, Vol 2, No 3-4, 2007. [PDF, LINK]

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Combining Multi-Visual Features for Efficient Indexing in A Large Image Database, Anne H.H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Huynh, Ron Lei.  VLDB Journal, Vol 9, No 4, pp 279-293, March 2001.   [PDF, the system was also demonstrated at SIGMOD2003.]

  2. Study on Image Processing for Video-Based Traffic Measurement and Vehicle Classification., Yan Q. Zhu and Quan Z. Sheng. Road & Transport Research, Vol 11, No 2,pp 42-49, June 2002. ARRB TR.

  3. Overview of some Patterns for Building and Managing Composite Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Fethi Rabhi, Marie Fauvet, Quan Z. Sheng , ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 3(3) 9-18, August 2002, ACM Press.

  4. The Self-Serv Environment for Web Services Composition, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Marlon Dumas , Jan/Feb, 2003, IEEE Internet Computing. Vol 7 No 1, pp 40-48. [PDF]

  5. On Composite Web Services Provisioning in an Environment of Fixed and Mobile Computing Resources, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah , Information Technology and Management, , Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 251-270. Vol 5, No 3-4, 2004.

  6. A Three-Level Specification Approach for an Environment of Software Agents and Web Services, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Ghazi Alkhatib , Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier Science Publisher, pp 214-231, Vol 3, No 3, 2004. [PDF]

  7. Towards a Conversation-driven Composition of Web Services , Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS), IOS Press, ISSN 1570-1263, Vol 2(2), 2004.

  8. Facilitating the Rapid Development and Scalable Orchestration of Composite Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng  Distributed and Parallel Databases, An International Journal (DAPD), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol 17 No 1, pp 5-37, January 2005.  

  9. A Three-Level Enterprise-Architecture Based on Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, and Leon Joloian. Enterprise Architecture Special Issue, Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 10, No. 10, 2007.

  10. Web Services Interactions: Analysis, Modeling, and Management. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane, and Hamdi Yahyaoui. International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), World Scientific Publishing Co., Vol 18 No 2, pp 179-198, March 2008.

  11. Enabling Next-Generation RFID Applications: Solutions and Challenges. Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Computer, Vol 41 No 9, pp 21-28, September 2008. [PDF]

  12. User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, and Zakaria Maamar. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol 51 No 11, pp 130-135. November 2008.

  13. RFID Infrastructure Design: A Case Study of Two Australian RFID Projects. John P.T. Mo, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 13 No 1. pp 14-21. Jan/Feb 2009. [PDF]

  14. Towards An Approach to Sustain Web Services High-Availability Using Communities of Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Samir Tata, Djamal Benslimane, and Mohamed Sellami. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Vol 5, No 1, pp 32-55. March 2009.

  15. Ubiquitous RFID: Where Are We? Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, Zongwei Luo, Jen-Yao Chung, and Zakaria Maamar. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Special Issue on RFID, Springer, 2009 (forthcoming).

  16. Configurable Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Anne H.H. Ngu. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 2 No 1. pp 34-49. January-March, 2009 [PDF].

  17. TMS-RFID: Temporal Management of Large-Scale RFID Applications. Xue Li, Jing Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, and Weicai Zhong. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer, 2010 (to appear).

  18. A Pattern-based Approach to Protocol Mediation for Web Services Composition. Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Stuart Madnick, and Quan Z. Sheng. Information and Software Technology (IST), Elsevier, 2010 (to appear).

  19. Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling. Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Jamal Bentahar, and Khouloud Boukadi. IEEE Internet Computing, 2010 (to appear).

Refereed Conferences and Workshop Papers

  1. Declarative Composition and Peer-to-Peer Provisioning of Dynamic Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu . IEEE 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE02), pp 297-308, San Jose, California, USA, Feb, 2002.   [PDF]

  2. Discovering E-Services Using UDDI in SELF-SERV, Quan Z. Sheng , Boualem Benatallah, Rayan Stephan, Eileen Oi-Yan Mak , International Conference on E-Business (ICEB2002), Beijing China, May 23-26, 2002.    [  TALK] [  PDF]

  3. A Unified Framework for Composing E-/M-Services, Zakaria Maamar, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng,  The First International Workshop on M-services: Concepts, Approaches, Tools, 26 June, Lyon France, 2002.

  4. SELF-SERV: A Platform for Rapid Composition of Web Services in a Peer-to-Peer Environment, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Eileen Oi-Yan Mak , The 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB02), Aug 20-23, Hong Kong, China, 2002.    [TALK, PDF]    

  5. Towards a Composition Framework for E-/M-Services, Zakaria Maamar, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng , Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile Devices (ACM), 16 July, Bologna, Italy, 2002.    [PDF]

  6. Quality Driven Web Service Composition, Liangzhao Zeng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Duams, Jayant Kalagnanam, Quan Z. Sheng  , The 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.

  7. An Adaptive Document Version Management Scheme, Boualem Benatallah, Mehregan Mahdavi, Phuong Nguyen, , Quan Z. Sheng, Lionel Port, Bill McIver , The 15th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'03), Austria, June 16-20, 2003. [PDF].

  8. Selection of Web Services for Composition Using Location of Provider Hosts Criterion, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah , Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2003), Held in conjunction with CAiSE'03. Austria, June 16-17, 2003. [PDF].

  9. Interleaving Web Services Composition and Execution Using Software Agents and Delegation, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah , AAMAS'03 Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003.     [TALK]

  10. Enabling Personalized Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Marlon Dumas, and Anne H.H. Ngu , The 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'04), pp 322-337. June 7-11, Riga, Latvia, 2004. [TALK, PDF]  

  11. Towards an Approach for Coordinating Personalized Composite Services in an Environment of Mobile Users , Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah  , Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2004) LNCS 3272, held in conjunction with CAiSE'04, Riga, Latvia, June 7-8, 2004.

  12. ContextUML: A UML-Based Modeling Language for Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Web Services, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah  The 4th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05), IEEE Computer Society. Sydney, Australia, July 11-13 2005. [TALK, PDF]

  13. On-demand Invocation of Web Services, Zhitong Zhao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu. The IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications and Services (WTAS 2006), Calgary, Canada, July 17-19, 2006.

  14. A Novel Approach for Robust Web Services Provisioning, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu. The 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'07),  Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16, 2007.

  15. Towards a Two-Layered Framework for Managing Web Services Interactions. Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS'07), Melbourne, Australia, July 11-13, 2007.

  16. On Checking and Achieving the Compatibility of Web Services Policies. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Djamal Benslimane, and Fenglin Liu. The 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'07), Adelaide, Australia, Dec 3-6, 2007.

  17. Sustaining Web Services High Availability Using Communities. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane. The 3rd International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2008), Barcelona, Spain, Mar 4-7, 2008.

  18. WS3 - International Workshop on Context-Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008). Quan Z. Sheng, Ullas Nambiar, Amit P. Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, Zakaria Maamar, and Said Elnaffar. The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008.

  19. Reconciling Protocol Mismatches of Web Services by Using Mediators. Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Stuart Madnick, Quan Z. Sheng. The 18th Annual Workshop on Information Techonologies and Systems (WITS'08), Paris, France, December 13-14, 2008.

  20. Robust Web Services Provisioning Through On-Demand Replication. Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Jian Yu, and Anne H.H. Ngu. The 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and Its Applications (ISTA 2009), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009. [PDF]

  21. On the Synchronization of Web Services Interactions. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Khouloud Boukadi, and Xitong Li. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2009), Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

  22. A New Approach to Model Web Services Behaviors based on Synchronization. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Khouloud Boukadi. The Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA 2009), Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

  23. Weaving Business Processes and Rules: A Petri Net Approach. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Paolo Falcarin, and Manurizio Morisio. The 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and Its Applications (ISTA 2009), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009.

  24. A P2P Implementation for the High Availability of Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Samir Tata, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009

  25. ContextServ: A Platform for Rapid and Flexible Development of Context-Aware Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Sam Pohlenz, Jian Yu, Hoi Sim Wong, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Zakaria Maamar. The 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009. [PDF, PPT]

  26. A User-Centric Mobile Service Creation Approach Converging Telco and IT Services. Jian Yu, Paolo Falcarin, Jose M. del Alamo, Juergen Sienet, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jose F. Mejia. The 8th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2009), Dalian, China. June 27-28, 2009.

  27. XDM: Compatible Service Repository for User-Centric Service Creation and Discovery. Jian Yu, Paolo Falcarin, Sancho Rego, Isabel Ordas, Eduardo Martins, Quan Sun, Rubaon Trapero, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 6-10, 2009.

  28. Compatibility Checking of Heterogeneous Web Service Policis Using VDM++, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Zakaria Maamar, Wei Jiang, and Xitong Li. The 4th 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 6-10, 2009.

  29. Failure and Interference Detection in Intermittently Active Data Streams. Nickolas J.G. Falkner and Quan Z. Sheng. The 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009), Linz, Austria. August 31- September 4, 2009. [PDF]

  30. Ontology Construction for Web Services. Aviv Segev and Quan Z. Sheng. Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP 2009), held together with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington D.C., USA. October 25-29, 2009.

  31. Smart Adelaide Guide: A Context-Aware Web Application. Kewen Liao, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, and Hoi S. Wong. The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2009). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 14-16 2009.

Refereed Book Chapters

  1. Personalized Service Creation and Provision for the Mobile Web. Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Jose M. del Alamo, and Paolo Falcarin. Book chapter in Weaving Services, Location, and People on the World Wide Web, Irwin King and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Eds). Springer, 2009.

  2. Web Service and Policies - Concepts and Solutions. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane, and Philippe Thiran. In Advances of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Systems, Y. Liu, A. Sun, H.T. Loh, W.F. Lu, and E.P. Lim (Ed.), Springer, 2008.

  3. RFID Data Management: Issues, Solutions, and Directions. Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Zakaria Maamar, and Paul Brebner. In The Internet of Things: from RFID to Pervasive Networked Systems, L. Yan, et al. (Ed.), Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

  4. Configurable QoS Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web Service Selection. Anne H.H. Ngu, Yintong Liu, Liangzhao Zeng, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Service Oriented Computing, Dimitrios Geograkopoulos and Mike Papazoglou (Ed). MIT Press, 2008.

  5. Agent-Based Support for Service Composition, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, and Boualem Benatallah. Book chapter in Extending Web Services Technologies: the Use of Multi-Agent Approaches, L. Cavedon, Z. Maamar, D. Martin, and B. Benatallah (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.

Ph.D. Thesis

  • Composite Web Services Provisioning in Dynamic Environments, Quan Z. Sheng, The Univeristy of New South Wales, March 2006.

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