Archived News

2010

• [2010.05]: Paper on Power Management in Heterogeneous Multi-tier Web Clusters is accepted by ICPP 2010.
• [2010.05]: Paper on Power Saving Design for Servers Under Resonse Time Constraint is accepted by ECRTS 2010
  
• [2010.03]: MEC-IDC paper is accepted by the First ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’10)
  
• [2010.02]: Paper on Reliability Calculus is accepted by The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’10) (acceptance rate = 14.4%)
• [2010.01]: 1 paper accetped by 2010 American Control Conference (ACC2010)
• [2009.11]: Four full papers accepted by IEEE Infocom 2010(acceptance rate for full papers= 276/1575 = 17.5%)
  

2009

• [2009.11]: Publicity Plug: The Ph.D. Student Form on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will be held in conjunction with  RTSS 2009 . Eighteen Ph.D.  students' essays describing  novel ideas and different interesting research aspects  in cyber-physical computing will be presented at the forum. 
• [2009.11]: Publicity Plug: I am serving as a Program Co-Chair of The 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2010), Please consider submitting your work to ICESS!
• [2009.10]: Publicity Plug: The submission deadline of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2010), is approaching, please consider submitting your work to it!
• [2009.08]: Our paper: "ORTEGA: An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems" has been awarded as the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics' (TII) 2008 Best Paper Award.  
• [2009.08]: Accepted Program Vice Chair invitation of IEEE Sensors, Ubiquitous, and Trusted Computing conference (SUTC 2010), Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your work to SUTC.  
• [2009.07]: Dr. Liu received Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunities Fund  (Single PI) for research on Networked Embedded Systems
• [2009.07]: Our paper entitled "SReD: A Secure Reputation-Based Dynamic Window Scheme for Disruption-Tolerant Networks" is accepted byMILCOM 2009. 
• [2009.06]: Publicity Plug: Accepted invitation of Track Chair of Wireless Sensor networks, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010, Please consider submitting your great work to this venue and attend the CPS week 2010!
• [2009.06]: Two papers are accepted by IEEE MASS 2009.
• [2009.05]: Dr. Liu received the FQRNT New Researcher Grant Award (Single PI)
• [2009.04]: Publicity Plug: I am co-organizing the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks (WiMD 2009), in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2009, which will  be held in May, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. Please consider submitting a paper to this venue. 
• [2009.04]: Accepted TPC invitation of IEEE RTSS 2009, sensor network track.
• [2009.03]: Accepted TPC invitation of IEEE Infocom 2010.
• [2009.03]: As Program Vice-Chair organizing Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing track of the 12th IEEE Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009
• [2009.03]: Our paper entitled "Performance of Bulk Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks" is accepted by IEEE DCOSS 2009. (acceptance rate = 26/116 = 22.4%.)
• [2009.02]: Our paper entited "EUL: an Efficient and Universal Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks" is accepted by ICDCS 2009. (acceptance rate = 75/455 = 16.3%.)
• [2009.01]: Master student of our group, Weihuan Shu 's Master thesis is selected for Dean's Honor List at McGill.  Congratulations to Weihuan!
• [2009.01]: Two papers accepted by ACC 2009. One paper is about our work on reduced dimension control using PCA. The other is about our work on adaptive critic design for uncertain nonlinear systems.

2008

• [2008.12]: Publicity Plug: I am co-organizing the Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009), in conjunction withICDCS 2009, which will  be held in June, 2009 in Montreal. Please consider submitting a paper to this venue. 
• [2008.10]:  Paper on On-Demand Real-Time GuArd for real-time control systems is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
• [2008.09]: Paper on Queueing-Model-Based Adaptive Control of Multi-Tiered Web Applications is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• [2008.08]: Paper on performance optimization with real-time routing in sensor networks is accepted by RTSS 2008.
• [2008.08]: Paper on SAT-based throughput optimization for multiprocessor platform is accepted by RTSS 2008.
• [2008.07]: Accepted TPC invitation of ICDCS 2009.
• [2008.04]: Paper "Lightning: A Hard Real-Time, Fast, and Lightweight Low-End Wireless Sensor Election Protocol for Acoustic Event Localization", is selected as the Featured Article of IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing May 2008 Issue.
• [2008.04]: 2 papers are accepted by FeBID 2008.
• [2008.03]: Paper on ORTEGA is accepted by ECRTS 2008.
• [2008.03]: Accepted TPC invitation of Infocom 2009.
• [2008.03]: Paper on FIT is accepted by IEEE DCOSS 2008. (acceptance rate = 29/116 = 25%.)
• [2008.02]: Paper on McCLS is accepted by the First International Workshop of Cyber-Physical Systems 2008.
• [2008.02]: Accepted TPC invitation of RTSS 2008 Sensor Network Track.
• [2008.01]: Paper on Personalized Interactive Faceted Search is accepted by WWW 2008
• [2008.01]: Paper on Tradeoff Between Sampling Rates and Data Accuracy is accepted by ACC 2008

2007

• [2007.12]: Paper on real-time switch design is accepted by RTAS 2008.
• [2007.08]: 2 papers are accepted by IEEE RTSS 2008.
• [2007.07]: 2 papers are accepted by CDC 2008
• [2007.03]: Dr. Liu receives the NSERC Discovery Grant Award for 5 years from 2007-2012. (Single PI)
• [2007.03]: Accepted TPC invitation of Infocom 2007
• [2007.02]: Accepted TPC invitation of RTSS 2007