Dr. Chengfei Liu has led and been involved in numerous research projects in the areas of workflow management, Web information design and management, object-oriented software design and databases, distributed databases and data integration, advanced transaction management, etc. and has published 60 refereed papers in prestigious international journals or in the proceedings of prestigious international conferences. He has been invited as a program committee member for numerous international conferences and a reviewer for Australian Research Council (ARC) discovery and linkage grant applications.

Dr. Chengfei Liu obtained his PhD, MSc, and BSc all in Computer Science from the Nanjing University in 1988, 1985, 1983, respectively. He joined the School of Information Technology at the Swinburne University of Technology as an Associate Professor in 2004. From 2000 to June 2004, he was a senior lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Science at the University of South Australia. From 1998 to 1999, he was a lecturer in the School of Computing Sciences at University of Technology, Sydney. From 1995 to 1997, he was a senior research scientist in the CRC for Distributed Systems Technology at the University of Queensland. From 1989 to 1994, and 1988 to 1989, he was an associate professor and a lecturer in Computer Science Department at East China University of Science and Technology, respectively. In January to March 2003, he was a visiting professor at the University of Aizu, Japan. From July 2001 to February 2002, he was a visiting scientist at IBM Silicon Valley Lab.

email: chengfei_liu@yahoo.com.au

some of his publications(more publications can be found from http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl or http://www.it.swin.edu.au/personal/cliu/):

- Confirmation: Increasing Resource Availability in Transactional Workflows, Information Scences 153:37-53, July 2003 http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/InfoSci153.ps


- Automating Handover in a Dynamic Workflow Environment. Proceedings of Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 10th International Conference, CAiSE'98, pp. 158-171. Pisa, Italy, June 1998., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1413, Springer. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/CAiSE98.ps


- Repository Support for Workflow Management Systems. Journal of Applied Systems Studies 1(3), 2000. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/JASS1_3.docs


- A General Model for Nested Transactional Workflows. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures, pp. 18-35. September 1996, Goa, India http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/ATMA96.ps

- Capturing Global Transactions from Multiple Recovery Log Files in a Partitioned Database System, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’03), pp. 987-996, 9-12 September, Berlin, Germany. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/VLDB03.ps


- A Virtual XML Databasse Engine for Relational Databases Proceedings of the VLDB XML Data Database Symposium (XSYM’03), pp. 37-51, 8 September, Berlin, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2824, Springer http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/XSym03_01.ps


- A Redundancy Free 4NF for XML, Proceedings of the VLDB XML Data Database Symposium (XSYM’03), pp. 254-266, 8 September, Berlin, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2824, Springer. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/XSym03_02.ps

- Supporting Update Propagation in Object-Oriented Databases. Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) 26(1): 99-115, 1998 http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/DKE26.ps


- A Query System for Object-Relational Databases. Proceedings of ADC'98, pp. 39-50. Febuary 1998, Perth, Australia, Springer. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/ADC98.ps


- Realizing Object-Relational Databases by Mixing Tables with Objects. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, pp. 335-346. November 1997, Brisbane, Australia, Springer. http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~ciscl/OOIS97.ps