Dr.ir. Lai Xu

Contact Information:

Software Systems Research Centre
School of Design, Engineering & Computing
Bournemouth University
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1202-961562
Fax: +44 (0) 1202-965314
lxu@bournemouth.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.e-contracting.net

Biographical Information:

Dr Lai Xu is a lecturer in the Software Systems Research Centre at Bournemouth University , UK. Previously she was a Senior Researcher at SAP research , Switzerland. Previously, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Organisation and Information Group of the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences of the Utrecht University , The Netherlands and at the Artificial Intelligence group of the Department of Computer Science of the Free University Amsterdam , The Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in Computerized Information Systems from Tilburg University , the Netherlands in 2004. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is "Monitoring Multi-party Contracts for E-business". Before she joined Infolab of Tilburg University (1999-2003), she worked as a research at the National Key Laboratory on Integrated Services Networks (1996-1999) and at the Information Science Institute (1992-1996) with Xidian University, China.

Research Interests

  • Web Services
  • Service-oriented Applications
  • E-contracting
  • Multi-party Process Monitoring
  • Process Integration

Publications Since 2001

Professional Services

Member of Journal Editorial Board

  • International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications
  • Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences

Conference/Workshop organization

  • International Expert Panel on Product Software (IEPPS) January 14-16, 2007, Volendam, The Netherlands. Organiser.
  • The First International Workshop on Development and Deployment of Product Software 2005 (DDoPS05) Organiser.

Programme committee member

  • International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2008, ICSOC2010, ICSOC2011)
  • The International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE2011)
  • International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2009, DEXA2010, DEXA2011)
  • The IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE2008, PRO-VE2009, PRO-VE2010, PRO-VE2011)
  • International Conference on E-Business (ICE-B2005, ICE-B2006, ICE-B2007, ICE-B2008, ICE-B2009, ICE-B2010)
  • The IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC2008, APSCC2009, APSCC2010, APSCC2011)
  • The International Conference on New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (NISS2010)
  • The 2009 International Conference on Computer Science Convergence Information Technology(ICCIT09)
  • The 2009 International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2009, WMSC2010, WMSC2011)
  • International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications ((ICMIA2010, ICMIA2011)
  • The 6th International Conference on Advanced Information Management and Service (IMS2010,IMS2011)
  • The 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering (ICEME2011)
  • IEEE 2011 International Workshop on Performance Aspects of Cloud and Service Virtualization (IEEE CloudPerf2011)
  • The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009)
  • International Conference on Networked Computing (INC2009)
  • The 5th International Conference on Advanced Information Management and Service (IMC2009)
  • International Conference on Digital Content, Multimedia Technology and its Applications (IDC2009)
  • The 3rd International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS2009)
  • First International Workshop on High Performance Networks (HPN2008)
  • The 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM2007)
  • The 3rd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows (GPWW2007)
  • The First International Workshop on Network Architecture and Service Models 2005 (NASM2005)
  • The IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, (EEE2004, EEE2005)
For remarks and questions, mail to Lai Xu.