Blog
This page republishes entries from my personal blog.
- LIXI Forum 07
I attended LIXI Forum 07 today and gave a talk on the"visible loan"project. We are using a RESTful design and ATOM/APP for disseminating business data across the entire industry. The simplicity and potential low lost has attracted a...
- ISO/IEC JTC1 Tech Watch
I attended the ISO/IEC JTC1 technology watch workshop and gave a talk on the future of embedded systems standards. There are a lot of interesting activities currently happening in JTC1 SC7 (Software&System Engineering). Hopefully, I will get a bit more...
- IEEE NSW Chapter Web 2.0 SIG
I attended the first meeting of IEEE NSW chapter Web 2.0 SIG which happens to be held at NICTA ATP. Most of the interests are around using Web 2.0 technologies in enterprise environments and we had some lively discussion. I...
- LIXI Valuation Reference Architecture and Implementation
The launch of the"LIXI Valuation Reference Architecture and Implementation"has attracted some media attention such as computerworld and Rust Report. Thanks to all the guys who have contributed greatly, especially Barry from LIXI, Len Bass from SEI , Mark...
- Going to Staturn 2007
Since SATURN 2007 is just a few days before ICSE 2007, I decide to attend and meet more SEI and industry people . I think SATURN is the only industry-oriented architecture event worth going if you don't want a product...
- NICTA Techfest
I was demonstrating LIXI valuation reference architecture and implementation at the NICTA Techfest 2007. The event was fun. The most interesting thing is to find really interesting NICTA projects such as NICE, NOSA, e-Science Desktop and I2D2....
- Soya and LIXI Case Study
Patric from ESE just released Soya as an open source project. Soya is an implementation of the SSDL specification. Thanks to Jim and Savas's great technical supervision for making this possible. Now we are planning to use real-world LIXI business...
- Len's visit
Len Bass from SEI has been visiting us each year for a month or two. I would say he is one of the most inspiring and humorous figures I have ever met. Every chat was fun and thought-provoking. He is...
- Going to ICSE 2007
I will be at ICSE 2007 and present 4 of the 6 papers (presenter bolded). Hope to see you there. :-) L. Zhu, J. Liu, N. B. Bui, I. Gorton, "Revel8or: Model Driven Capacity Planning Tool Suite", in Proceedings of...
- Thesis 2007
Thesis 2007 projects are available now. Architecture for Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) SystemsService Oriented Architecture for e-Business StandardsDesign-time Adaptive Service EngineeringService-Oriented Eventing and Content DistributionModel Driven .Net DevelopmentAdaptive Software Process EngineeringModel Driven Architecture (MDA) for Web Service DevelopmentDesign Decision Reasoning with Experience...
- HICSS, IBM Research, Microsoft and PNNL
Just came back from a very long trip around the States. After organizing an interesting MDD workshop at HICSS 40, we visited IBM's Watson Lab in New York, Microsoft in Seattle and PNNL. There were many great stories and inspirations...
- Selected Publications of Liming Zhu
Peer-reviewed Journal Papers U. Kannengiesser and L. Zhu,"An Ontologically-based Evaluatin of Software Design Methods,"The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), vol. (to appear), 2008. L. Zhu, L. Osterweil, M. Staples, U. Kannengiesser, B. Simidchieva,"Desiderata for Languages to be...
- Taste of Research Summer Scholarships
Architecture related topics are now available (among others). Apply by following the instruction here. Deadline approaching....
- CMGA Best First Time Paper Award
Thanks for Jenny's effort and presentation. We won the best first time paper award for our CMGA Paper: J. Liu, L. Zhu, I. Gorton,"Model Driven Capacity Planning: Methods and Tools,"CMGA 2006....
- COMP9117 Architecture of Software Systems
I will be teaching COMP9117 (Architecture of Software Systems) next session at school of computer science and engineering, UNSW. The course outline is now online. You will be able to learn not only the fundamental principles in software architecture, but...