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J188. GDH+: A GPGPU-Empowered Gradient Data Hierarchy and Key-Value Separation for Optimizing LSM-Tree-based KV Stores.

H. Sun, X. Jiang, J. Xu, E. Wang, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2026, in press.

J187. AGC-An Adaptive Workload Burst-Aware Garbage Collection Mechanism for High-Performance SSDs. [Abstract]

H. Sun, H.-S. Ding, H.-Q Tong, X. Cheng, H.-G Chai, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 845 - 859, March 2026, doi: 10.1109/TC.2025.3642636.

J186. eCache: A Sample-Inference-based Intelligent Cache Scheme for High-Performance SSDs. [Abstract]

H. Sun, Y.-N Fu, X. Wang, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 582 - 596, Feb. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TC.2025.3628340.

J185. EFRC is Adapted to Access-rate Imbalance - A Class of Efficient and Fair Replacement Algorithms for Cache Sharing. [Abstract]

L. Ai, P.-F Chen, G.-B Yu, Y.-H Deng, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage, In Press, 2026, doi: 10.1145/3799981.

J184. GARMT: Grouping-Based Association Rule Mining to Predict Future Tables. [Abstract | PDF]

P.-H. He, L.-B. Sun, X. Gao, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Computers, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 220-235, 2025, doi: 10.3390/computers14060220.

J183. HAKV-A Hotness-Aware Zone Management Approach to Optimizing Performance of LSM-tree-based Key-Value Stores. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, Q.-L. Yue, G.-Z Chen, Y. Zou, Y.-L. Yue, X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1-26, 2025, doi: 10.1145/3747848.

J182. JMStore-Joint Optimization of Computation and Storage Balancing in Multi-NDP Key-Value Stores with Hash-Based Data Distribution. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, J.-M. Huang, B. Chen, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-49, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1145/3744568.

J181. Modeling Recommender Systems using Disease Spread Techniques. [Abstract | PDF]

P.-X. He, L.-B. Sun, X. Gao, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Information, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 687-703, Aug. 2025, doi: 10.3390/info16080687.

J180. MTree - A Tiering-based Key-Value Store Powered by High-performance Hierarchical Data Management. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, Y.-H. Chen, Y.-W. Yu, Y.-J. Deng, Y.-L. Yue, S. Jiang, X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1-40, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.1145/3736587.

J179. Semantic-Driven Seasonal Data Classification—An Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Cost-Effective Storage System. [Abstract | PDF]

Z. Yuan, X.-Q. Lv, Y.-C. Gong, P. Xie, X. Qin, X.-D. You, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 163, part 2, 113004, pp. 1-16, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2025.113004.

J178. Similarity Metrics: Chebyshev Coulomb Force and Resultant Force for High-Dimensional Data. [Abstract | PDF]

J.-Y. Liu, C.-W. Zhang, M. Zhang, X. Qin, and J.-F. Zhang, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1-25, 2025, doi: 10.1145/3715963.

J177. iCache: An Intelligent Cache Allocation Strategy for Multi-Tenant in High-Performance Solid State Disks. [Abstract]

D.-H. Li, H. Sun, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1690-1703, May 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3492993.

J176. RDA: A Read-Request Driven Adaptive Allocation Scheme for Improving SSD Performance. [Abstract | PDF]

S.-J. Pang, Y.-H. Deng, Z.-R. Wu, G.-X. Zhang, J. Li, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 416-429, Feb. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3435681.

J175. ICE: Incremental Subspace Clustering of High-Dimensional Categorical Data. [Abstract | PDF]

N. Pang, C.-W. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 87-118, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1142/S0218488525500047.

J174. TrieKV - A High-Performance Key-Value Store Design with Memory as Its First-Class Citizen. [Abstract]

H. Sun, D.-Y. Kong, S. Jiang, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 2479-2496, Dec. 2024.

J173. A Smart Healthcare System for Remote Areas Based on the Edge-Cloud Continuum. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Gao, P.-H. He, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Electronics, vol. 13, no. 21, 4152, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.3390/electronics13214152.

J172. Misinformation Detection: A Survey of AI Techniques and Research Opportunities. [Abstract]

G. Taylor, W.-T. Jiang, X. Qin, and A. Gupta, Foundations and Trends in Information Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 6-147, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1561/2900000037.

J171. Asynchronous Compaction Acceleration Scheme for Near-data Processing-enabled LSM-tree-based KV Stores. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, B.-D. Lou, C. Zhao, D.-Y. Kong, C.-W. Zhang, J.-Z. Huang, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 23, no. 6, Article no. 93, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1145/3626097.

J170. A Machine Learning-Empowered Cache Management Scheme for High-Performance SSDs. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, C. Sun, H.-Q. Tong, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 2066-2080, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TC.2024.3404064.

J169. LAC: A Workload Intensity-aware Caching Scheme for High-Performance SSDs. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, H.-Q. Tong, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 1738-1752, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TC.2024.3385290.

J168. Artificial Intelligence Applications in Smart Healthcare: A Survey. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Gao, P.-H. He, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Future Internet, vol. 16, no. 9, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.3390/fi16090308.

J167. BTVMP: A Burst-Aware and Thermal-Efficient Virtual Machine Placement Approach for Cloud Data Centers. [Abstract | PDF]

J. Li, Y.-H. Deng, R. Wang, Y. Zhou, H. Geng, G.-Y. Min, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Nov. 2023 doi: 10.1109/TSC.2023.3338267.

J166. FaaSBatch: Boosting Serverless Efficiency with In-Container Parallelism and Resource Multiplexing. [Abstract | PDF]

Z. Wu, Y.-H. Deng, Y. Zhou, J. Li, S.-J. Pang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 1071-1085, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/TC.2024.3352834.

J165. A Survey on Energy-Aware Security Mechanisms for the Internet of Things. [Abstract | PDF]

P.-X. He, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Future Internet, vol. 16, no. 14, April 2024.

J164. FSPDA: A Full Sequence Program Data Allocation Scheme for Boosting 3-D nand Flash Read Performance. [Abstract | PDF]

S. Pang, Y. Deng, Z. Wu, G. Zhang, J. Li and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4336-4349, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2023.3294452.

J163. PcGC: A Parity-Check Garbage Collection for Boosting 3-D NAND Flash Performance. [Abstract | PDF]

S.-J. Pang, Y.-H. Deng, G.-X. Zhang, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4364-4377, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2023.3281517.

J162. gLSM: Using GPGPU to Accelerate Compactions in LSM-tree-based Key-Value Stores. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, J.-F. Xu, X.-X. Jiang, G.-Z. Chen, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 20, no. 1, Article No. 5, pp. 1-41, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1145/3633782.

J161. HashCache: Accelerating Serverless Computing by Skipping Duplicated Function Execution. [Abstract | PDF]

Z. Wu, Y. Deng, Y. Zhou, L. Cui, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3192-3206, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2023.3323330.

J160. Improving LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores with Fine-Grained Compaction Mechanism. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, G. Chen, Y. Yue and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 3778-3796, Oct.-Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2023.3329646.

J159. Characterization of I/O Behaviors in Cloud Storage Workloads. [Abstract | PDF]

Q. Zou, Y.-F. Zhu, J.-X. Chen, Y.-H. Deng, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 2726-2739, Oct, 2023.

J158. DAC: A Dynamic Active and Collaborative Cache Management Scheme for Solid State Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, S.-S. Dai, J.-Z. Huang, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 140, 102896, July 2023.

J157. NCache: A Machine-learning Cache Management Scheme for Computational SSDs. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, Q. Cui, J.-Z. Huang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1810-1823, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2022.3208769.

J156. Capping carbon emission from green data centers.

T. Bhattacharya, M. Rahgouy, X.-P. Peng, T. Tekreeti, T. Cao, J.-Z. Mao, A. Das, X. Qin, and A. Sinha, International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 627-641, Springer, April 2023. doi: 10.1007/s40095-022-00539-9.

J155. A Voronoi-Based Semantically Balanced Dummy Generation Framework for Location Privacy. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Tadakaluru, and X. Qin, Analytics, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 246-264, MDPI, March 2023.

J154. A high-dimensional outlier detection approach based on local coulomb force. [Abstract]

P.-Y. Zhu, C.-W. Zhang, X.-F. Li, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 5506-5520, June 2022.

J153. A computational approach for real-time detection of fake news. [Abstract | PDF]

C.-W. Zhang, A. Gupta, X. Qin, and Y. Zhou, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 221, pp. 119656, Elsevier, July 2023.

J152. ProbSky: Efficient computation of probabilistic skyline queries over distributed data. [Abstract]

A.-T. Kuo, H.-Q. Chen, L. Tang, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 5173 - 5186, May 2023.

J151. Towards thermal-aware workload distribution in cloud data centers based on failure models. [Abstract | PDF]

J. Li, Y.-H. Deng, Y. Zhou, Z. Zhang, G.-Y. Min, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 586 – 599, Feb. 2023.

J150. PSA-Cache: A Page-state-aware Cache Scheme for Boosting 3D NAND Flash Performance. [Abstract | PDF]

S.-J. Pang, Y.-H. Deng, G.-X. Zhang, Y. Zhou, Y.-Q. Huang, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1-27, Feb. 2023.

J149. HIPA: A hybrid load balancing method in SSDs for improved parallelism performance. [Abstract]

H. Sun, X. Cheng, C.-W. Zhang, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 131, 102705, Elsevier, 2022.

J148. Prakriti: A Gamified Approach to Saving Water. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, I. Joshi, T. Cao, J.-Z. Mao, X. Qin, Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 33-40, Feb. 2022.

J147. MacroTrend: A Write-Efficient Cache Algorithm for NVM-Based Read Cache. [Abstract | PDF]

N. Bao, Y. -P. Chai, X. Qin, and C. -W. Wang, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 207-230, Springer, Jan. 2022.

J146. Performance modeling for I/O-intensive applications on virtual machines. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, J.-Z. Mao, C.-W. Zhang, T. Tekreeti, Y. Wang, T. Cao, and X. Qin, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 34, no. 10, e6823, John Wiley and Sons, 2022.

J145. Exploiting renewable energy and UPS systems to reduce power consumption in data centers. [Abstract]

X.-P. Peng, T. Bhattacharya, T. Cao, J.-Z. Mao, T. Tekreeti, and X. Qin, Big Data Research, vol. 27, 100306, Elsevier, Feb. 2022.

J144. MiCS-P: Parallel mutual-information computation of big categorical data on spark. [Abstract | PDF]

J.-L. Li, C.-W. Zhang, J. Zhang, X. Qin, and L.-H. Hu, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 161: 118-129, Elsevier, March 2022.

J143. Modeling of Fabric Motion Based on Small Videos.

T. Peng, X.-Z. Zhou, J.-P. Liu, X.-R. Hu, C.-N. Chen, D. Peng, and X. Qin, The Journal of the Textile Institute, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 324-331, Taylor & Francis, Feb. 2022.

J142. A frequency-aware management strategy for virtual machines in DVFS-enabled clouds. [Abstract | PDF]

J.-Z. Mao, X.-P. Peng, T. Cao, T. Bhattacharya, and X. Qin, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, vol. 33, pp. 100643, Elsevier, 2022.

J141. Outlier detection from multiple data sources. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Ma, X.-J. Zhao, C.-W. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, Information Sciences, 580: 819-837, Nov. 2021.

J140. Improving the Performance of Deduplication-Based Backup Systems via Container Utilization Based Hot Fingerprint Entry Distilling. [Abstract | PDF]

D.-T. Zhang, Y.-H. Deng, Y. Zhou, Y.-F. Zhu, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1-23, Nov. 2021.

J139. Improving bioinformatics applications performance via active storage systems. [Abstract]

Z.-Y. Ding, X. Qin, and S. Yin, CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing 3, no. 3, pp. 242-251, 2021.

J138. Predicting Blood Donors Using Machine Learning Techniques. [Abstract | PDF]

C. Kauten, A. Gupta, X. Qin, and G. Richey, Information Systems Frontiers, pp. 1-16, July 2021.

J137. WEVar: a novel statistical learning framework for predicting noncoding regulatory variants. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Wang, Y.-C Jiang, B. Yao, K. Huang, Y.-L. Liu, Y. Wang, X. Qin, A. J. Saykin, and L. Chen, Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. bbab189, 2021.

J136. A novel deep learning method for predictive modeling of microbiome data. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Wang, T. Bhattacharya, Y.-C. Jiang, X. Qin, Y. Wang, Y.-L. Liu, A. J. Saykin, and, L. Chen, Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. bbaa073, May 2021.

J135. Co-active: a workload-aware collaborative cache management scheme for NVMe SSDs.

H. Sun, S.-S. Dai, J.-Z. Huang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 6, pp.1437-1451, 2021.

J134. Two-Stream+: A Textile Fabric Classification Framework Through Small Motions in Videos with Deep Learning.

T. Peng, X.-Z. Zhou, J.-P. Liu, X.-R. Hu, C.-N. Chen, D. Peng, X. Qin, and Z.-H. Wu, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 7567-7580, 2021.

J133. HBPFP-DC: A parallel frequent itemset mining using Spark. [PDF]

Y.-L. Xun, J.-F. Zhang, H.-F. Yang, and X. Qin, Parallel Computing, vol. 101, 102738, April 2021.

J132. An Energy-Aware High Performance Task Allocation Strategy in Heterogeneous Fog Computing Environments.

K.-K. Gai, X. Qin, and L.-H. Zhu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 626 - 639, 2021.

J131. Criso: An Incremental Scalable and Cost-Effective Network Architecture for Data Centers. [PDF]

H. Feng, Y.-H. Deng, X. Qin, and G.-Y. Min, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 2016 – 2029, Nov. 2020.

J130. Weighted outlier detection of high-dimensional categorical data using feature grouping. [PDF]

J.-L. Li, J.-F. Zhang, N. Pang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 11 (2020): 4295-4308.

J129. ThermoBench: A thermal efficiency benchmark for clusters in data centers.

Y. Zhou, Y.-Q. Chen, S. Taneja, A. Chavan, X. Qin, and Jifu Zhang, Parallel Computing, vol. 98 (2020): 102671.

J128. A popularity-aware reconstruction technique in erasure-coded storage systems.

T. Cao, X.-P. Peng, C.-W. Zhang, T. K. Al Tekreeti, J.-Z. Mao, X. Qin, and J.-Z. Huang, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 146 (2020): 122-138.

J127. Turbo-GTS: A Fast Framework of Optimizing Task Throughput for Large-Scale Mobile Crowdsourcing. [Abstract]

W. Li, H.-Q Chen, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020): 1-29.

J126. HybridGAN: Hybrid Generative Adversarial Networks for MR Image Synthesis. [PDF]

J. Chen, S. Luo, M.-F. Xiong, T. Peng, P. Zhu, M.-H. Jiang, and X. Qin, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 79, no. 37 (2020): 27615-27631.

J125. EDOM: Improving energy efficiency of database operations on multicore servers. [Online]

Y. Zhou, S. Taneja, X. Qin, W.-S. Ku, and J.-F. Zhang, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 91, pp. 1002-1015, April 2020.

J124. Feature grouping-based parallel outlier mining of categorical data using spark.

J. Li, J.-F Zhang, X. Qin, and Y.-L Xun, Information Sciences 504 (2019): 1-19.

J123. Detecting fake news for reducing misinformation risks using analytics approaches.

C.-W. Zhang, A. Gupta, C. Kauten, A. V. Deokar, and X. Qin, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 279, no. 3 (2019): 1036-1052.

J122. PaRS: A Popularity-aware Redundancy Scheme for In-Memory Stores. [Abstract]

J.-Z. Huang, P.-P Zhou, X. Qin, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 556-569, 2019.

J121. Parallel Hierarchical Subspace Clustering of Categorical Data. [Abstract]

N. Pang, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 542-555, April 2019.

J120. GreenDB: Energy-Efficient Prefetching and Caching in Database Clusters.

Y. Zhou, S. Taneja, C.-W. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1091-1104, May 2019.

J119. Parallel Frequent Patterns Mining with Balanced Grouping on Spark.

Y.-L. Xun, J.-F. Zhang, H.-F. Yang, and X. Qin, IEEE Access, In Press, 2019.

J118. Optimizing Erasure-Coded Data Archival for Replica-based Storage Clusters. [Abstract]

J.-Z. Huang, P.-P. Zhou, X. Qin, Y.-Q. Wang, and C.-S. Xie, The Computer Journal, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 247 - 262, March 2019.

J117. Optimization of Small Updates for Erasure-Coded In-memory Stores. [Abstract]

J.-Z. Huang, J. Xia, X. Qin, Q. Cao, and C.-S. Xie, The Computer Journal, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 869-883, Jun 2019.

J116. PUMA: Parallel Subspace Clustering of Categorical Data using Multi-Attribute Weights.

N. Pang, J.-F. Zhang, C.-W. Zhang, X. Qin, and J.-H. Cai, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 126, pp. 233-245, 2019.

J115. Parallel Mining of Contextual Outlier using Sparse Subspace.

X.-J. Zhao, J.-F. Zhang, X. Qin, J.-H. Cai, and Y. Ma, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 126, pp. 158-170, 2019.

J114. CalmWPC: A Buffer Management to Calm Down Write Performance Cliff for NAND Flash-based Storage Systems.

H. Sun, G.-D. Chen, J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, and W.-S. Shi, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 90, pp. 461-476, 2019.

J113. An Overlapping Voronoi-diagram-based System for Multi-criteria Optimal Location Queries. [PDF]

J. Zhang, Po-Wei Harn, W.-S. Ku, M.-T. Sun, X. Qin, H. Lu, X.-F. Jiang, GeoInformatica, vol. 23, pp. 105-161, Springer, 2019.

J112. DLSpace: Optimizing SSD Lifetime via An Efficient Distributed Log Space Allocation Strategy. [Abstract]

H. Sun, J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, and C.-S. Xie, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems vol. 17, no. 6, Article 92, Nov. 2018.

J111. Towards Thermal-Aware Hadoop Clusters.

Y Zhou, S. Taneja, and X. Qin, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 88, pp. 40-54, Nov. 2018.

J110. TIVAN: Tissue-specific cis-eQTL Single Nucleotide Variant Annotation and Prediction.

L. Chen, Y. Wang, B. Yao, A. Mitra, X. Wang, and X. Qin, Bioinformatics, vol. 34, no. 20, Oct. 2018.

J109. kNN-DP: Handling Data Skewness in kNN Joins Using MapReduce.

X.-J. Zhao, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 600-613, March 2018.

J108. Thermal Benchmarking and Modeling for HPC using Big Data Applications.

S. Taneja, Y Zhou, and X. Qin, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 87, pp. 372-381, 2018.

J107. Endurable SSD-based Read Cache for Improving the Performance of Selective Restore from Deduplication Systems. [Online]

J. Liu, Y.-P. Chai, X. Qin, and Y.-H. Liu, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 58-78, 2018.

J106. FSLLE: A Fast K Selection Algorithm for Locally Linear Embedding. [Abstract]

J.-H. Liu, T Peng, X.-G. Zhao, K.-F. Song, M.-H. Jiang, M. Hu, X.-R. Hu, and Xiao Qin, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 17, no. 01: 1850003, 2018.

J105. RAPID: Measuring Deformation of Biological Tissues from MR Images through the Riemannian Pseudo Kernel.

J. Chen, Z.-L. Zhang, R.-H. He, X.-R. Hu, and X. Qin, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 32, no. 6, 2018: 1857003.

J104. PRODA: Improving Parallel Programs on GPUs through Dependency Analysis. [Online]

X. Wei, M. Hu, T. Peng, M.-H. Jiang, Z.-Y. Wang, and X. Qin, Cluster Computing, vol. x, no. x, Dec. 2017, Early Access.

J103. Scalable Mining of Contextual Outliers Using Relevant Subspace. [Online]

J.-F. Zhang, X.-L. Yu, Y.-L. Xun, S.-L. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 47, no. 2, July 2017.

J102. aHDFS: An Erasure-Coded Data Archival System for Hadoop Clusters. [Online]

Y.-Q. Chen, Y. Zhou, S. Taneja, X. Qin, and J.-Z. Huang, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 3060-3073, May 2017.

J101. LOMA: A Local Outlier Mining Algorithm Based on Attribute Relevance Analysis. [Online]

X.-J. Zhao, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 84, pp. 272-280, Oct. 2017.

J100. Thermal-aware Task Assignments in High Performance Computing Clusters. [Online]

S. Taneja, S. Kulkarni, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 29, no. 18, pp. e4206, Sept. 2017.

J99. Informed Prefetching for Distributed Multi-Level Storage Systems. [Online]

M. Al Assaf, X.-F. Jiang, X. Qin, M. R. Abid, M. Qiu, and J.-F. Zhang, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 619-640, April 2018.

J98. A Parallel Algorithm for Mining Constrained Frequent Patterns using MapReduce. [Online]

X.-W. Yan, J.-F. Zhang, Y.-L. Xun, and X. Qin, Soft Computing, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 2237-2249, May 2017.

J97. Employing Dual-Block Correlations to Reduce the Energy Consumption of Disk Drives. [Online]

Y.-H Deng, J.-M. Cai, W. Jiang, and X. Qin, Computing, pp. 235-253, Jan. 2017.

J96. Towards Two-Phase Scheduling of Real-Time Applications in Distirbuted Systems.

M. I. Alghamdi, X.-F. Jiang, J. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, M.-H. Jiang, and X. Qin, Journal of Networking and Computer Applications, Jan. 2017.

J95. Recovery Support for Real-Time Distributed Editing Systems.

M. I. Alghamdi, X.-F. Jiang, J. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, Journal of Internet Technology, Jan. 2017.

J94. FiDoop-DP: Data Partitioning in Frequent Itemset Mining on Hadoop Clusters.

Y.-L. Xun, J.-F. Zhang, X. Qin, and X.-J. Zhao, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 101-114, Feb. 2016.

J93. g-Good-neighbor Conditional Diagnosability Measures for 3-Ary N-cube Networks.

J. Yuan, A.-X. Liu, X. Qin, J.-F. Zhang, and J. Li, Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 623, pp. 144-162, May 2016.

J92. Miner*: A Weighted-distance-sum-based Outlier Mining System of Star Spectrum Data. [Abstract]

C.-W. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, X. Qin, and S.-L. Zhang, Int'l Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp.: 739-759, May 2016.

J91. Efficient Parallel Skyline Evaluation using MapReduce.

J. Zhang, X.-F. Jiang, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 27, In Press, 2016.

J90. A relevant Subspace based Contextual Outlier Mining Algorithm.

J.-F. Zhang, X.-L. Yu, Y.-H Li, S.-L. Zhang, Y.-L. Xun, and X. Qin, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 97, In Press, 2016.

J89. IPODS: Informed Prefetching for Distributed Storage System.

M. Assaf, X.-F. Jiang, M. Abid, and X. Qin, Journal of Signal Processing, In Press, 2016.

J88. FiDoop: Parallel Mining of Frequent Itemsets Using MapReduce.

Y. Xun, J. Zhang, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 313-325, March 2016.

J87. TIGER: Thermal Aware File Allocation in Storage Clusters.

A. Chavan, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-F. Jiang, X. Qin, J.-F. Zhang, M.-H. Jiang, and M. Qiu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 558-573, Feb. 2016.

J86. Feedback Control Scheduling in Energy-Efficient and Thermal-Aware Data Centers.

X.-G. Zhao, T. Peng, X. Qin, Q.-P. Hu, L. Ding, and Z.-J Fang, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 48-60, 2016.

J85. Data Allocation for Hybrid Memory with Genetic Algorithms.

M. Qiu, Z. Chen, J.-W. Liu, Z.-L. Zong, G. Quan, X. Qin, and L. T. Yang, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 544-555, 2015.

J84. Defending Jamming Attack in Wide-Area Monitoring System for Smart Grid.

J.-W. Liu, Z. Ming, M. Qiu, H. Su, Z.-H. Gu, and X. Qin, Telecommunication Systems, vol. 53, pp. 159-167, 2015.

J83. WEC: Improving Durability of SSD Cache Drives by Caching Write Efficient Data.

Y.-P. Chai, Z.-H Du, X. Qin, and D. Bader, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 3304-3316, Nov. 2015.

J82. Frog: A Framework for Context-Based File Systems.

J. Zhang, X.-F. Jiang, X. Qin, W.-S Ku, and M. I. Alghamdi, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 11, no. 3, Article No. 11, 2015.

J81. A New Non-MDS RAID6 Code to Support Fast Reconstruction and Balanced IOs.

P. Xie, J.-Z. Huang, Q. Cao, X. Qin, and C.-S. Xie, The Computer Journal, vol. 58, Feb 2015.

J80. An Efficient I/O-Redirection-based Reconstruction Scheme for Erasure-Coded Storage Clusters. [Abstract]

J.-Z Huang, X. Qin, X. Liang, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 3037-3050, Nov. 2015.

J79. Exploiting Pipelined Encoding Process to Boost Erasure-Coded Data Archival. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-Z. Huang, Y. Wang, X. Qin, X. Liang, S. Yin, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 2984-2996, Nov. 2015.

J78. Fault Tolerant Scheduling for Real Time Tasks on Multiple Earth Observation Satellites. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-M. Zhu, J.-J. Wang, X. Qin, and J. Wang, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 3012-3026, Nov. 2015.

J77. Towards Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Real-Time Tasks under Uncertain a Cloud Computing Environment. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

H.-K. Chen, X.-M. Zhu, J.-H. Zhu, and X. Qin, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 20-35, Jan. 2015.

J76. Scale-RS: An Efficient Scaling Scheme for RS-Coded Storage Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-Z. Huang, X.-H. Liang, X. Qin, P. Xie, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1704-1717, 2015.

J75. The G-Good-Neighbor Conditional Diagnosability of K-Ary N-Cubes under the PMC Model and MM* Model. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Yuan, A.-X. Liu, X. Ma, X.-L. Liu, X. Qin, and J.-F. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1165-1177, 2015.

J74. PUSH: A Pipeline Reconstruction I/O for Erasure-Coded Storage Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-Z. Huang, X.-H. Liang, X. Qin, Q. Cao, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 516-526, 2015.

J73. RB-Explorer: An Accurate and Practical Approach to Write Amplification Measurement for SSDs. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

H. Sun, X. Qin, H. Jiang, J.-Z. Huang, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1133-1148, April, 2015.

J72. MFTS: A Multi-level Fault-tolerant Archiving Storage with Optimized Maintenance Bandwidth. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, F.-H. Zhang, W.-S. Ku, and C.-S. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 524-537, Nov./Dec., 2014.

J71. Exploring Optimal Combination of a File System and an I/O Scheduler for Underlying Solid State Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, X. Qin, and C.-S. Xie, Journal of Zhejiang University Science, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 607-621, Aug. 2014.

J70. An indoor localization of WiFi based on support vector machines.

F. Yu, M.-H. Jiang, J. Liang, X. Qin, M. Hu, T. Peng, and X.-R. Hu, Advanced Materials Research, 926, pp. 2438-2441, May 2014.

J69. MINT: A Reliability Modeling Framework for Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, and K.-L. Li, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 345-360, April 2014.

J68. Location-Preserved Contention Based Routing in VANETs. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Q. Yang, A. Lim, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 7, 2014.

J67. Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Cloud Data Storage Systems. [BibTex]

X.-F. Jiang, M. I. Alghamdi, M. Al Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, J. Zhang, X. Qin, and M. Qiu, Special Issue on Cloud and Big Data, Journal of Communications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 299-311, 2014.

J66. H2ACO: An Optimization Approach to Scheduling Tasks with Availability Constraint in Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Z. Tong, K.-L. Li, Z. Xiao, and X. Qin, Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 115-124, Jan. 2014.

J65. An Outlier Mining Algorithm Based on Constrained Concept Lattice. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-F. Zhang, S.-L. Zhang, K. H. Chang, and X. Qin, International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 1170-1179, May 2014.

J64. A High-Level Energy Consumption Model for Heterogeneous Data Centers. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, J.-J. Lu, X. Qin, and X.–N. Zhao, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, vol. 39, pp. 41-55, December 2013.

J63. Interrelation Analysis of Celestial Spectra Data using Constrained Frequent Pattern Trees. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-F. Zhang, X.-J. Zhao, S.-L Zhang, S. Yin, and X. Qin, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 41, pp. 77-88, March 2013.

J62. Adaptive Preshuffling in Hadoop Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Xie, F.-J. Meng, H.-L. Wang, J.-H. Cheng, H.-F. Pan, and X. Qin, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 79-92, April 2013.

J61. Exploiting Redundancies and Deferred Writes to Conserve Energy in Erasure-coded Storage Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J.-Z. Huang, F.-H Zhang, X. Qin, and C.-S. Xie, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 9, no. 2, Article 4, July 2013.

J60. Performance Evaluation of Online Backup Cloud Storage. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, W. Wan, X. Qin, International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 20-33, July-September 2013.

J59. Improving Phasor Data Concentrators Reliability for Smart Grid. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Z. Chen, M. Qiu, Y.-X Zhu, and X. Qin, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, vol. 24, 2013.

J58. Thermal Modeling of Hybrid Storage Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-F. Jiang, M. M. Al Assaf, J. Zhang, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, and T. Muzaffar, X. Qin, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 72, no. 3, pp.181–196, September 2013.

J57. Eco-Storage: A Hybrid Storage System with Energy-Efficient Informed Prefetching. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

M. M. Al Assaf, X.-F. Jiang, M. R. Abid, X. Qin, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 72, no. 3, pp.165–180, September 2013.

J56. A Decentralized Approach for Mining Event Correlations in Distributed System Monitoring. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

G. Wu, H.-X. Zhang, M. Qiu, Z. Ming, J.-Y. Li, and X. Qin, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 330-340, March 2013.

J55. Security-Aware Optimization for Ubiquitous Computing Systems with the SEAT Graph Approach. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

M. Qiu, L. Zhang, Z. Ming, Z. Chen, X. Qin, and L.T. Yang, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 518-529, Aug. 2013.

J54. An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

M. Nijim, X. Qin, M. Qiu, and K.-L. Li, Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 196-207, January 2013.

J53. ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Yin, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 361-374, 2012.

J52. A Case Study of Visualizing Global User Download Patterns using Google Earth and NASA World Wind. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Z.-L. Zong, J. Job, X.-S. Zhang, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, vol. 6, no. 1, Oct. 2012.

J51. Efficient Data Migration to Conserve Energy in Streaming Media Storage Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Y.-P. Chai, Z.-H. Du, D.A. Bader, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 2081-2093, Nov. 2012.

J50. Adaptive Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Real-Time Tasks on DVS-Enabled Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-M. Zhu, C. He, K.-L. Li, and X. Qin, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 751-763, June 2012.

J49. Online Optimization for Scheduling Preemptable Tasks on LaaS Cloud Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF | JPDC Hottest Paper]

J.-Y. Li, M. Qiu, Z. Ming, G. Quan, X. Qin, and Z.-H. Gue, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 666-677, May 2012.

J48. PRE-BUD: Prefetching for Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Buffer Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Manzanares, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and S. Yin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 7, no. 1, Article 3 June 2011.

J47. QoS-Aware Fault-Tolerant Scheduling for Real-Time Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-M. Zhu, X. Qin, and M. Qiu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 800-812, March 2011.

J46. Resource Allocation Robustness in Multi-core Embedded Systems with Inaccurate Information. [BibTex | PDF]

J.-Y. Li, Z. Ming, M. Qiu, G. Quan, X. Qin, T.-Z. Chen, Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 840-849, Sept. 2011.

J45. A Message Scheduling Scheme for Energy Conservation in Multimedia Wireless Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, M. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 272-283, March 2011.

J44. Quality of Security Adaptation in Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, K. Bellam, Z.-L. Zong, S. Yin, X. Qin, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 288-301, Feb. 2011.

J43. A Reliability Model of Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems with Data Mirroring. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

F.-Y. Shen, X. Qin, M.-T. Sun, and A. Salazar, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, Jan. 2010.

J42. EAD and PEBD: Two Energy-Aware Duplication Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel Tasks on Homogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 360- 374, March 2011.

J41. Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X.-J Ruan, and S. Yin, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 5, no. 3, Aug. 2009.

J40. Communication-Aware Load Balancing for Parallel Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X.-J Ruan, and S. Yin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 42- 52, Jan. 2010.

J39. Conserving Energy in Real-Time Storage Systems with I/O Burstiness. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Manzanares, A. Roth, X.-J Ruan, S. Yin, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 9, no. 3, Feb. 2010.

J38. Static Security Optimization for Real Time Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Lin, L. Xu, L.T. Yang, X. Qin, N.-G. Zheng, Z.-H. Wu, and M. Qiu, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 22-37, Feb. 2009.

J37. Exploiting Redundancies to Enhance Schedulability in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

W. Luo, X. Qin, X.-C. Tan, K. Qin, and A. Manzanares, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 39, no, 3, pp. 626-639, May, 2009.

J36. Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and A. A. Manzanares, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 3273-3279, Sept. 2008.

J35. Integrating Security and Reliability in Real-time Embedded Systems.

K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X. Ruan, and X. Qin, Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing. Accepted March 2008.

J34. An Energy-Delay Tunable Task Allocation Strategy for Collaborative Applications in Networked Embedded Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 329-343, March 2008.

J33. Security-Aware Resource Allocation for Real-Time Parallel Jobs on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 682-697, May 2008.

J32. Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications on Mobile Clusters. [PDF]

Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 91-113, 2008.

J31. Stochastic Scheduling for Multiclass Applications with Availability Requirements in Heterogeneous Clusters.

T. Xie and X. Qin, Journal of Cluster Computing, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 33-43, March 2008.

J30. An Availability-Aware Task Scheduling Strategy for Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and T. Xie, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 188-199, Feb. 2008.

J29. Performance Comparisons of Load Balancing Algorithms for I/O-Intensive Workloads on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 32-46, January 2008.

J28. Design and Analysis of a Load Balancing Strategy in Data Grids. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 132-137, Jan. 2007.

J27. Performance Evaluation of a New Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Systems with Security Heterogeneity. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 1067-1081, October 2007.

J26. StReD: A Quality of Security Framework for Storage Resources in Data Grids. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, Z.L. Zong, and X. Qin, Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 816-824, July 2007.

J25. Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, Article No. 20, 2007.

J24. Modeling and Improving Security of a Local Disk System for Write-Intensive Workloads. [PDF]

M. Nijim, X. Qin, and T. Xie, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 400-423, Nov. 2006.

J23. Scheduling Security-Critical Real-Time Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 864-879, July 2006.

J22. A Novel Fault-tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Precedence Constrained Tasks in Real-Time Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Parallel Computing, vol. 32, no. 5-6, pp. 331-356, June 2006.

J21. Security-Driven Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications on Grids. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, Journal of Cluster Computing, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 145-153, 2007.

J20. A Security Middleware Model for Real-time Applications on Grids. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, Feb. 2006.

J19. Real-Time Scheduling with Quality of Security Constraints. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, A. Sung, M. Lin, and L. T. Yang, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, vol. 4, no. 3/4, pp. 188-197, 2006.

J18. Open Issues and Challenges in Security-aware Real-Time Scheduling for Distributed Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, M. Lin, Journal on Information, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 309-322.

J17. Performance Analysis of An Admission Controller for CPU- and I/O- Intensive Applications in Self-Managing Computer Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, T. Xie, and X. Qin, ACM Operating Systems Review, vol. 39, no. 4, Oct. 2005.

J16. A Dynamic and Reliability-driven Scheduling Algorithm for Parallel Real-time Jobs on Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 885-900, Aug. 2005.

J15. Improving the Performance of I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters of Workstations. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. R. Swanson, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Cluster Computing in Science and Engineering, no. 9, no. 3, pp. 297-311, July 2006.

J14. A Feedback Control Mechanism for Balancing I/O- and Memory-Intensive Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. R. Swanson, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, ISSN 1895-1767, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 95-107, 2005.

J13. Exploiting Redundancy to Boost Performance in a RAID-10 Style Cluster-based File System. [Abstract]

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 433-447, 2006.

J12. A Case Study of Parallel I/O for Biological Sequence Search on Linux Clusters.

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, and D. R. Swanson, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 214 – 222, July 2004.

J11. A Delayed Consistency Model for Distributed Interactive Systems with Real-time Continuous Media. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, Journal of Software, vol. 13, no.6, 2002, pp. 1029-1039.

J10. A Fault-Tolerant Support in Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems. [PDF | HTML]

X. Qin, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol.2, no.1, 2001.

J9. A Related Subspace-based Local Outlier Detection Algorithm Using MapReduce.

J.-F. Zhang, Y.-H. Li, X. Qin, and Y.-L. Xun, Journal of Software, vol. 25, 2014, China. (In Chinese)

J8. Real-time Scheduling with Fault-tolerance in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.

X. Qin, Z. Han and L. Pang, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.25, No.1, January 2002, China. (In Chinese)

J7. Design and Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Real-time Scheduling Algorithm with Fault-Tolerance.

X. Qin, L. Pang, Z. Han, and S. Li, Journal of Software, Vol.11, No.5, May 2000, China. (In Chinese)

J6. An Automatic Testing System of Scheduling Strategies in Real-Time UNIX.

X. Qin and L. Pang, Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 1999, China.

J5. The Study of Real-time Disk Scheduling for Two-Headed Mirrored Disk with Autonomous Heads.

X. Qin, L. Pang, Z. Han, and S. Li, Journal of Software, Vol.10, No.9, September 1999, China. (In Chinese)

J4. A Static Scheduling Algorithm for Real-time and Fault-tolerant tasks in Multiprocessor Systems.

X. Qin, Z. Han, L. Pang, and S. Li, (Short Paper), in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, 1999, China.

J3. Design and Performance Evaluation of Real-time Disk Scheduling for Two-Headed Mirrored Disk Systems.

X. Qin, L. Pang, Z. Han, and S. Li, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.22, No.2, pp. 212-217, Feb. 1999, China. (In Chinese)

J2. Disk Scheduling for Two-Headed Mirrored Disk Systems using Parallel Positioning.

X. Qin, L. Pang, and Z. Han, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.21. No.12, pp. 1119-1124, 1998, China. (In Chinese)

J1. CRF-A Scheduling for Multi-Granularity Lock in Objected-Oriented Database.

X. Qin and L. Pang, Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 51-57, Sept. 1998, China.

Book Chapters [ Back to Top ]

B4. Towards a Secure Fragment Allocation of Files in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. [PDF]

Y. Tian, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, J. Xie, and X. Qin, Scalable Computing and Communications: Theory and Practice, edited by Samee U. Khan, Albert Y. Zomaya, and Lizhe Wang, John Wiley & Sons, Sept. 2012.

B3. ROD: A Practical Approach to Improving Reliability of Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems. [PDF]

S. Yin, X.-J Ruan, J. Xie, Y. Tian, and X. Qin, Energy Aware Distributed Computing Systems, edited by Albert Y. Zomaya and Young-Choon Lee, Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing, May 2011.

B2. Improving Energy-Efficiency of Computational Grids via Scheduling.

Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications. 2009.

B1. Data Grids: Supporting Data-Intensive Applications in Wide Area Networks. [PDF]

X. Qin and H. Jiang, High Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure, pp. 481-494, edited by L. T. Yang and M. Guo, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

Refereed Conference Publications [ Back to Top ]

C192. Random Search Matches EA for MoE Topology.

L.-B. Sun and X. Qin, Proc. the 29^th EvoStar Conference, Toulouse, France, April 8-10, 2026.

C191. Dynamic ALS - A Unified Model for Mitigating Short-Term Noise and Long-Term Interest Drift in Streaming Recommendations.

T. Cao, J. Tang, X.-P. Peng, T. Tekreeti, T. Bhattacharya, and X. Qin, Proc. of the Fifth Int'l Conf. Innovations in Computing Research, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 24-26, 2026.

C190. Bridging Symmetry and Robustness: On the Role of Equivariance in Enhancing Adversarial Robustness. [Abstract | PDF]

L.-W. Wang, I. I. Uddin, KC Santosh, C.-W. Zhang, X. Qin, and Y. Zhou, Proc. of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Dec. 2025.

C189. gParaKV-A GPGPU-accelerated Key-value Separation-based KV Store with Optimized Compaction and Garbage Collection. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, X.-X. Jiang, X. Qin, S. Jiang, and E.-H. Wang, Proc. of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25), St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.1145/3712285.375989.

C188. Learning to Select Like Humans - Explainable Active Learning for Medical Imaging. [Abstract | PDF]

I. I. Uddin, L.-W. Wang, X. Qin, Y. Zhou, and KC Santosh, Proc. IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2026), Granada, Spain, May 8-10 2026.

C187. Multimodal Approaches for Classifying PTSD and PCS-PTSD from Resting-State fMR Deep Learning on Time-Series and Interpretable Feature-Based Models. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Joghataee, A. Gupta, A. Naeimaeimousavi, G. Deshpande, X. Qin, Proc. the 2025 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium, 2025.

C186. Explainability-Driven Defense: Grad-CAM-Guided Model Refinement Against Adversarial Threats. [Abstract | PDF]

L.-W. Wang, I. I. Uddin, X. Qin, Y. Zhou, and KC Santosh, Proc. AAAI 2025 Summer Symposium, 2025, doi: 10.1609/aaaiss.v6i1.36024.

C185. Multi-Scale Unrectified Push-Pull with Channel Attention for Enhanced Corruption Robustness. [Abstract | PDF]

R. N. Ranabhat, L.-W. Wang, X. Qin, Y. Zhou, and KC Santosh, Proc. AAAI 2025 Summer Symposium, 2025, doi: 10.1609/aaaiss.v6i1.36022.

C184. Similarity Attribute-Based Categorical Attribute Grouping for Outlier Detecting. [Abstract | PDF]

Y.-J. Song, J.-Y. Liu, M. Zhang, X. Qin, and J.-F. Zhang, Proc. Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications (ICIC 2025), July 25, 2025.

C183. A Novel Gen-AI-Driven Call Summarization and Sentiment Analysis Approach for Healthcare Contact Center.

R. Patel, A Gupta, X. Qin, and C. Brickner, Proc. 2024 the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 18-21, 2024.

C182. A Generative AI and NLP-Based Research Prototype for Call Resolutions and Automation: The Case of a Healthcare Contact Center. [Abstract | PDF]

R. Patel, A Gupta, C. Brickner, and X. Qin, Proc. 2024 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 14-15, 2024.

C181. A Window-Driven Compaction Mechanism in LSM-Tree-Based Key-Value Stores Through Near-Data Processing.

H. Sun, R. Jin, J.-M. Huang, Y.-L. Yue, and X. Qin, Proc. the 26^th IEEE Int'l Conf. High Performance Computing and Communications, Wuhan, China, Dec. 13-15, 2024.

C180. A Surgical Assistance System for Emergency Medical Care in Ambulances.

X. Gao, P.-X. He, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Proc. the 2024 Int'l Conf. Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Dec. 11-13, 2024.

C179. Navigating Cloud Security Challenges: Insights and Solutions.

T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, A. Das, T. Cao, P. Patel, J. Prajapati, V. Patel, G. Bellio, and X. Qin, Proc. the 2024 Int'l Conf. Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Dec. 11-13, 2024.

C178. Limited Resources Usage of Deep-Learning-Based IoT Devices in Healthcare. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Gao, P.-X. He, Y. Zhou, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things (AIBThings), Sept. 7-8, 2024, doi: 10.1109/AIBThings63359.2024.10863456.

C177. CPCF: A Flexible Chunking and Proactive Insertion Cuckoo Filter.

W.-D. Hua, P. Xie, X. Qin, R. Mao, Y. Ji, C. Hao, Y. Hua, and J.-B. Qin, Proc. the Int'l Conf. Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Gifu, Japan, July 3-5, 2024.

C176. Predicting Rare Infectious Diseases.

M. Joghataee, A. Gupta, and X. Qin, Proc. Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Doctoral Workshop, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 9-10, 2023.

C175. The Influence of COVID-19 on the Food Delivery Infrastructure. [Abstract | PDF]

K. Kushagra, A. Gupta, and X. Qin, Proc. Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 9-10, 2023.

C174. Elevating Performance of LSM-Tree-Based Key-Value Stores with Gradient Data Hierarchy. [Abstract | PDF]

H. Sun, J.-F. Xu, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Cloud Computing, Chicago, Illinois, July 2-8, 2023.

C173. Processing-Enabled Asynchronous Parallel Scheme for Compaction Acceleration in Key-Value Stores.

H. Sun, and X. Qin, Proc. the 3rd International Workshop on Memory and Storage Computing (MSC), Oct. 11-12, 2022.

C172. Computation Offloading From Edge to Equipment for Smart Manufacturing. [Abstract]

H. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, K. Kushagra, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), pp. 207-212, Portland, OR, Dec. 6-9, 2022.

C171. MentalNet: Heterogeneous Graph Representation for Early Depression Detection. [PDF]

I. Mihov, H.-Q. Chen, X. Qin, W.-S. Ku, D. Yan, and Y.-H. Liu, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), pp. 1113-1118, Orlando, FL, Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 2022.

C170. Developing Mobile App Design from User Feedback using Deep Unsupervised Learning.

C.-F. Wang, X. Qin, and A. Gupta, Proc. 2022 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Analytics for Digital Frontiers, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 10, 2022.

C169. RT-FEND: Spark-Based Real Time Fake News Detection. [Abstract]

C.-W Zhang, A. Gupta, H. Sun, Y. Li, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), Oct. 3-4, 2022.

C168. Energy-efficient Management of Data Centers using a Renewable-aware Scheduler. [Abstract]

X.-P. Peng, T. Bhattacharya, J.-Z. Mao, T. Cao, C. Jiang, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), Oct. 3-4, 2022.

C167. Accelerating the Energy Efficient Design of Traditional Data Centers Through Modeling. [Abstract]

T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, T. Tekreeti, J.-Z. Mao, T. Cao, X. Qin, and M. Rahgouy, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), Oct. 3-4, 2022.

C166. Emotion Analysis of English and Spanish COVID Tweets.

G. Taylor, C. L. Short, A, Gupta, X. Qin, and W.-T. Jiang, Proc. The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Minneapolis, Aug. 10-14, 2022.

C165. Analyzing Controversial Topics within Facebook.

C. L. Short, G. Taylor, A. Gupta, and X. Qin, Proc. The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Minneapolis, Aug. 10-14, 2022.

C164. Misinformation: A Survey of State-of-Art and Future Research Opportunities.

W.-T. Jiang, A. Gupta, G. Taylor, and X. Qin, Proc. The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Minneapolis, Aug. 10-14, 2022.

C163. Operating System Convergence: An Example via the Maru OS Project. [Abstract]

W. White, and X. Qin, Proc. 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 1018-1027, May 30 - June 03, 2022.

C162. Archpipe: Fast and Flexible Pipelined Erasure-coded Archival Scheme for Heterogeneous Networks. [Abstract | PDF]

B. Xu, J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, Q. Cao, Y.-Y. Dong, and W.-K. Kong, Proc. 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2022.

C161. Looking Beyond Content-Modeling and Detection of Fake News from a Social Context Perspective. [Abstract | PDF]

K.-N. Xiao, A. Gupta, and X. Qin, Proc. of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2022.

C160. DDoS Detection Systems for Cloud Data Storage. [PDF]

T. Cao, J.-Z. Mao, T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. 2021 Third IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), Dec. 2021.

C159. Energy-Aware Privacy Controls for Clouds. [PDF]

J.-Z. Mao, T. Cao, X.-P. Peng, T. Bhattacharya, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. 2021 Third IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), Dec. 2021.

C158. Exploring Roles of Emotion in Fake News Detection. [PDF]

K.-N. Xiao, A. Gupta, W.-T. Jiang, and X. Qin, Proc. Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Analytics and AI for a Sustainable and Resilient Future, Austin, TX, Dec. 2021.

C157. What Facebook Messages Told Us About How We Handled Disaster Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

W.-T. Jiang, A. Gupta, K.-N. Xiao, and X. Qin, Proc. Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Analytics and AI for a Sustainable and Resilient Future, Austin, TX, Dec. 2021.

C156. MentalSpot: Effective Early Screening for Depression Based on Social Contagion. [Abstract | PDF]

J. Pirayesh, H.-Q. Chen, X. Qin, W.-S. Ku, and D. Yan, Proc. of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, pp. 1437-1446. 2021.

C155. Towards Energy-Efficient and Real-Time Cloud Computing. [Abstract]

T. Tekreeti, T. Cao, X.-P. Peng, T. Bhattacharya, J.-Z. Mao, X. Qin, and W.-S. Ku, Proc. 2021 IEEE Int'l Conf. Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2021.

C154. A Triplet Appearance Parsing Network for Person Re-Identification. [Abstract]

M.-F. Xiong, Z.-Y. Wang, R.-H. He, X.-R. Hu, M. Cheng, X. Qin, and J. Chen, In ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4245-4249. 2021.

C153. F-Write: Fast RDMA-supported Writes in Erasure-coded In-memory Clusters. [Abstract]

B. Xu, J.-Z. Huang, Q. Cao, and X. Qin, Proc. 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2021.

C152. Data Security and Malware Detection in Cloud Storage Services. [PDF]

T. Cao, J.-Z. Mao, T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. 2020 Second IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), pp. 284-293. IEEE, Dec. 2020.

C151. Security-Aware Energy Management in Clouds. [PDF]

J.-Z. Mao, T. Cao, X.-P. Peng, T. Bhattacharya, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. 2020 Second IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), pp. 284-293. IEEE, Dec. 2020.

C150. Turbo-GTS: Scaling Mobile Crowdsourcing using Workload-Balancing Bisection Tree. [Abstract]

W. Li, H.-Q. Chen, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. the 28th Int'l Conf. Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), pp. 155-158, Seattle WA, Nov. 3-6, 2020.

C149. Triple attention network for clothing parsing. [Abstract]

R.-H. He, M. Cheng, M.-F. Xiong, X. Qin, J.-P. Liu, and X.-R. Hu, Proc. Int'l Conf. Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), pp. 580-591. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.

C148. Modeling Energy Efficiency of Future Green Data Centers. [PDF]

T. Bhattacharya and X. Qin, Proc. 11th International Green and Sustainable Computing Workshops (IGSC), IEEE, Oct. 2020.

C147. Energy Efficient Data Centers Powered by On-site Renewable Energy and UPS Devices. [PDF]

X.-P. Peng and X. Qin, Proc. 11th International Green and Sustainable Computing Workshops (IGSC), IEEE, Oct. 2020.

C146. TOSS: A Topology-based Scheduler for Storm Clusters. [PDF]

Y. Zhou, Y.-Y. Liu, C.-W. Zhang, X.-P. Peng, and X. Qin, Proc. 2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 587-596. IEEE, May 2020.

C145. Modeling Energy Consumption of Virtual Machines in DVFS-Enabled Cloud Data Centers.

J.-Z. Mao, T. Bhattacharya, X.-P. Peng, C. Ting, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE 39th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Nov. 2020.

C144. Realistic Drawing & Painting with AI Supported Geometrical and Computational Method (Fun-Joy).

L. Wu, A. Yang, H. He, X.-K. Yang, H. Yan, Z.-M. Gao, X. Qin, B. Liu, S. Du, A. Dubrovskiy, T. A. Yang, Proc. 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2020.

C143. Advancing AI-aided Computational Thinking in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) Education (Act-STEM).

L. Wu, A. Yang, A. Dubrovskiy, H. He, H. Yan, X.-K. Yang, X. Qin, B. Liu, Z.-M. Gao, S. Du, T. A. Yang, Proc. 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2020.

C142. Computing Mutual Information of Big Categorical Data and Its Application to Feature Grouping. [PDF]

J.-L. Li, C.-W. Zhang, J.-F. Zhang, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1946-1949, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 20-24, 2020.

C141. TEA: A Traffic-efficient Erasure-coded Archival Scheme for In-memory Stores.

B. Xu, J.-Z Huang, Q. Cao, and X. Qin, Proc. the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 5-8, 2019.

C140. N-Code: An Optimal RAID-6 MDS Array Code for Load Balancing and High I/O Performance.

X.-P. Ping, Z. Yuan, J.-Z. Huang, and X. Qin, Proc. the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 5-8, 2019.

C139. Performance Profiling of Virtual Machine Workload in Green Computing.

T. Bhattacharya, X. Qin, and L. Chen, Proc. Tenth Int'l Green and Sustainable Computing Conf., Alexandria, VA, Oct. 2019.

C138. A Write-Efficient Cache Algorithm based on Macroscopic Trend for NVM-based Read Cache.

N. Bao, Y.-P. Chai, and X. Qin, Proc. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 1245-1248. IEEE, March 2019.

C137. A Perception Augmentation System for Autonomous Vehicles.

C. Kauten, A. Gupta, H. Li, X. Qin, D. Bevly, and A. Jenkins, Proc. Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Decision Analytics Connecting People, Data, and Things, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2018.

C136. REDUX: Managing renewable energy in data centers using distributed UPS systems.

X.-P. Peng, C. Kauten, C.-W. Zhang, J.-Z. Mao, T. Heckwolf, T.K.A. Tekreeti, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Smart Cloud (SmartCloud), pp. 46-53, Sept. 21-23, 2018.

C135. Improving Energy Efficiency of Database Clusters through Prefetching and Caching.

Y. Zhou, S. Taneja, M. I. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2018), Washington, DC, May 1-4, 2018.

C134. Thermal Profiling and Modeling of Hadoop Clusters using BigData Applications.

S. Taneja, Y. Zhou, M. I. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. the 3rd IEEE Int'l Workshop on Foundations in Big Data Computing, in conjunction with the IEEE Int'l Conf. on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Jaipur, India, Dec. 18-21, 2017.

C133. Revisiting Updating Schemes for Erasure-Coded In-memory Stores.

J. Xia, J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, Q. Cao, and C.-S. Xie, Proc. Int'l Conf. Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), No. 7-9, 2017.

C132. WPS: A Workload-aware Placement Scheme for Erasure-Coded In-Memory Stores. [Abstract]

S. Wang, J.-Z. Huang, X. Qin, Q. Cao, and Changsheng Xie, Proc. Int'l Conf. Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), No. 7-9, 2017.

C131. Towards Thermal-Efficient Hadoop Clusters through Scheduling.

Y. Zhou, M. I. Alghamdi, G. Dudeja, S. Taneja, and X. Qin, Proc. the IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Exeter, UK, June 21-23, 2017.

C130. Thermal-aware Job Scheduling of MapReduce Applications on High-Performance Clusters.

S. Taneja, Y. Zhou, M. I. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. the 13th Int'l Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS), Bristol, UK, August 14-17, 2017.

C129. Duofs: An Attempt at Energy-saving and Retaining Reliability of Storage Systems.

B. Jiao, X.-M. Zhu, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, and Shu Yin, Proc. IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pp. 2634-2635, June 2017.

C128. RESS: A Reliable Energy-efficient Storage System. [Abstract]

S. Yin, Z. Xiao, K. Li, J. Huang, X. Ruan, X. Zhu, X. Qin, Proc. the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1193-1198, Dec. 13-16, 2016.

C127. Towards Energy-Efficient Multicore Database Systems.

Y. Zhou, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Taneja, W.-S. Ku, and X. Qin, Proc. the 7th IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGCC), Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2016.

C126. Profiling Energy Usage of Web-Service Applications on Clusters. [Abstract]

Y.-Y. Liu, M. I. Alghamdi, W.-S. Ku, Y. Zhou, S. Taneja, and X. Qin, Proc. the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Long Beach, California, Aug. 2016.

C125. Using Provenance to Boost the Metadata Prefetching in Distributed Storage Systems.

G.-J Wu, Y.-H. Deng, and X. Qin, Proc. the 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 2016.

C124. An Efficient Parallel Approach of Parsing and Indexing for Large-Scale XML Datasets. [Abstract | PDF]

K.-F. Song, H.-W. Lu and X. Qin, 2016 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Wuhan, China, 2016, pp. 184-191, doi: 10.1109/ICPADS.2016.0033.

C123. A Framework for Multi-Criteria Optimal Location Selection.

J. Zhang, W.-S. Ku, X.-F. Jiang, X. Qin, M.-T. Sun, and H. Lu, Proc. the 23rd ACM Int'l Conf. Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'15), Demo Paper, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2015.

C122. TERN-A Self-Adjusting Thermal Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Data Centers.

Y.-Q Chen, M. I. Alghamdy, X. Qin, J.-F. Zhang, M.-H. Jiang, and M. Qiu, Proc. IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, New York, August 2015.

C121. Fingerprint Indoor Localization Algorithm Based on Modified AdaBoost. [Abstract]

F. Yu, M.-H. Jiang, J. Liang, X. Qin, M. Hu, T. Peng, and X.-R. Hu, Proc. the Second Int'l Conf. Mechatronics and Automatic Control, pp. 513-520. Springer International Publishing, 2015.

C120. Secure Replica Allocation in Cloud Storage Systems with Heterogamous Vulnerabilities.

Y. Tian, X. Qin, and Y.-F. Jia, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Boston, MA, August 2015.

C119. REED: A Reliable Energy-Efficient RAID.

S. Yin, X. Li, K. Li, J.-Z Huang, X.-J. Ruan, X.-M. Zhu, and X. Qin, Proc. Int'l Conf. Parallel Processing, Beijing, China, Sept. 2015.

C118. MLFS:A Multiple Layers Share File System for Cloud Computing.

X. Zhang, W. Guo, Z.-H. Li, X.-N Zhao, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Globecom Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks and Applications, Austin, Texas, Dec. 2014.

C117. Expansion RSS-based indoor localization using 5G WiFi signal.

F. Yu, M.-H. Jiang, J. Liang, X. Qin, M. Hu, T. Peng, and X.-R. Hu, Proc. Int'l Conf. Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, pp. 510-514. IEEE, 2014.

C116. iTad: An I/O Thermal-Aware Data Center Model. [BibTex | PDF]

T. Muzaffar, M. I. Alghamdi, A. Chavan, X.-F. Jiang, X. Qin, M. Qiu, J.-F. Zhang, and M.-H. Jiang, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Sept. 2014.

C115. Online Data Allocation for Hybrid Memories on Embedded Tele-Health Systems.

M. Qiu, L.-B Chen, Y.-X. Zhu, J.-T. Hu, and X. Qin, Proc. 2014 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Paris, France, Aug. 2014.

C114. Analysis and Design of Fault-Tolerant Scheduling for Real-Time Tasks on Earth-Observation Satellites.

X.-M. Zhu, J.-J. Wang, J. Wang, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2014.

C113. PLC-Cache: Endurable SSD Cache for Deduplication-based Primary Storage.

J. Liu, Y.-P. Chai, X. Qin, and Y. Xiao, Proc. the 30th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), June 2014.

C112. Multi-Criteria Optimal Location Query with Overlapping Voronoi Diagrams.

J. Zhang, W.-S. Ku, M.-T. Sun, X. Qin, and H. Lu, Proc. the 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Athens, Greece, March 24-28, 2014.

C111. A Framework to Measure Storage Utilization in Cloud Storage Systems.

X. Zhang, W. Guo, Z.-H. Li, X.-N. Zhao, and X. Qin, Proc. the 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructure, June 2014.

C110. We Didn't Start the Fire: Using Agent-Directed Thermal Modeler to Keep Servers Cool. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Hood, T. Scott, J. Yu, X. Qin, L. Yilmaz, and J. A. Hamilton, Proc. the Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium of the SpringSim Multiconference, Tampa, Florida, April 2014.

C109. V²-Code: A New Non-MDS Array Code with Optimal Reconstruction Performance for RAID-6. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

P. Xie, J.-Z. Huang, Q. Cao, and X. Qin, Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Sept. 23-27, 2013.

C108. Reliability Analysis of Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems. [BibTex]

S. Yin, X. Qin, and K.-L. Li, Proc. the 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Nov. 2013.

C107. A Highly Extensible Framework for Molecule Dynamic Simulation on GPUs. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, W. Guo, X. Qin, and X.-N. Zhao, Proc. the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, July 22-25, 2013.

C106. Adaptive Preshuffling in Hadoop Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Xie, Y. Tian, S. Yin, J. Zhang, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, Proc. the International Conference on Computational Science, Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 June, 2013.

C105. A Spatial Keyword Evaluation Framework for Network-based Spatial Queries. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Zhang, W.-S. Ku, X.-F. Jiang, and X. Qin, Proc. the 21st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013), Orlando, FL, USA, November 5-8, 2013.

C104. Energy Consumption Characterization of Heterogeneous Servers. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, J.-J. Lu, and X. Qin, Proc. the 8^th ChinaGrid Annual Conference, Changchun, China, Aug. 22-23, 2013.

C103. Measuring and Analyzing Write Amplification Characteristics of Solid State Disks. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

H. Sun, X. Qin, F. Wu, and C.-S. Xie, Proc. the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, Aug. 14-16, 2013.

C102. TIGER: Thermal-Aware File Assignment in Storage Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

A. Chavan, X.-F. Jiang, M. I. Alghamdi, X. Qin, M.-H. Jiang, and J.-F. Zhang, Proc. the 29th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), May 2013.

C101. Evaluation of Spatial Keyword Queries with Partial Result Support on Spatial Networks. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

J. Zhang, W.-S. Ku, X.-F Jiang, X. Qin, and Y.-L. Hsueh, Proc. the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Milan, Italy, 2013.

C100. PEAM: Predictive Energy-Aware Management for Storage Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-F. Jiang, J. Zhang, M. I. Alghamdi, X. Qin, M.-H. Jiang, and J.-F. Zhang, Proc. the 8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2013.

C99. BFEPM: Best Fit Energy Prediction Modeling Based on CPU Utilization. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, J.-J. Lu, and X. Qin, Proc. the 8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2013.

C98. Performance Evaluation of Online Backup Cloud Storage. [BibTex | PDF]

X. Zhang, W. Wan, X. Qin, Proc. the 4th International Conference on Information & Communication Systems, Irbid, Jordan, April 23-25, 2013.

C97. ORCA: An Offloading Framework for I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF | Source Code]

J. Zhang, X.-F. Jiang, M. I. Alghamdi, M. M. Al Assaf, Y. Tian, X. Qin, and M, Qiu, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Austin, Texas, Nov. 2012.

C96. Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Storage Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-F. Jiang, M. I. Alghamdi, J. Zhang, M. M. Al Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, T. Muzaffar, and X. Qin, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Austin, Texas, Nov. 2012.

C95. Improving Write Performance by Enhancing Internal Parallelism of Solid State Drives. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-F. Jiang, Z.-L. Zong, Y. Tian, and X. Qin, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Austin, Texas, Nov. 2012.

C94. Global Workload Characterization of A Large Scale Satellite Image Distribution System. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

B. Romoser, R. Fares, P. Janovics, Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Austin, Texas, Nov. 2012.

C93. Multicore-Enabled Smart Storage for Clusters. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Z.-Y. Ding, X.-F. Jiang, S. Yin, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, K.-H. Chang, M. Qiu, Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Beijing, China, September 2012.

C92. A Pipelining Approach to Informed Prefetching in Distributed Multi-Level Storage Systems. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

M. M. Al Assaf, X.-F. Jiang, J. Zhang, M. I. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA12), Cambridge, MA, 23-25 Aug. 2012.

C91. Towards Power-Efficient Smartphones by Energy-Aware Dynamic Task Scheduling. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

M. Qiu, Z. Chen, L. T. Yang, X. Qin, and B. Wang, Proc. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012. (Best Paper Award)

C90. Performance Evaluation of Traditional Caching Policies on a Large System with Petabytes of Data. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF | PPT | SlideShare]

R. Fares, B. Romoser, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Proc. the 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Xiamen, China, June 2012. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

C89. Reliability Analysis for an Energy-Aware RAID System. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF | PPT | SlideShare]

S. Yin, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, Y. Tian, J. Xie, X. Qin, and M. Qiu, Proc. the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Orlando, Florida, Nov. 2011.

C88. Secure Fragment Allocation in a Distributed Storage System with Heterogeneous Vulnerabilities. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Tian, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Yin, J. Xie, J. Zhang, X. Qin, M. Qiu, and Y.-M. Yang, Proc. the 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Dalian, China, July 2011.

C87. A Secure File Allocation Algorithm for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.

Y. Tian, M. I. Alghamdi, J. Xie, S. Yin, J. Zhang, X. Qin, M. Qiu, and Y.-M. Yang, Proc. the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, the 3rd Int'l Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (CloudSec), Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 13-16, 2011.

C86. MIND: A black-box energy consumption model for disk arrays. [Abstract | BibTex | PDF]

Z. Liu, J. Zhou, W.-K. Yu, F. Wu, X. Qin, C.-S. Xie, Intl' Green Computing Conference and Workshops (IGCC), Orlando, Florida, 25-28 July 2011.

C85. Heat-Based Dynamic Data Caching: A Load Balancing Strategy for Energy- Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Proc. the 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies: Research Track (MSST), Denver, Colorado, May 2011.

C84. An Automatic Prefetching and Caching System. [Abstract | PDF]

J. Lewis, M. I. Alghamdi, M. M. A. Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, Z.-Y. Ding, and X. Qin, Proc. the 29th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 2010.

C83. ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security. [Abstract | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Yin, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Xie, J. Lewis, and X. Qin, Proc. the 29th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 2010.

C82. Energy-Aware Loop Parallelism Maximization for Multi-Core DSP Architectures. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Qiu, J.-W. Niu, L. T. Yang, X. Qin, S.-L. Zhang, and B. Wang, Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom-2010), Hangzhou, China, Dec 18-20, 2010. (Best Paper Award)

C81. Location Privacy Protection in Contention Based Forwarding for VANETs. [Abstract | PDF]

Q. Yang, X.-J. Ruan, A. Lim, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Globecom 2010 Wireless Networking Symposium, Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010.

C80. Energy Efficient Prefetching with Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), San Diego, CA, Sept. 13-16, 2010.

C79. Multi-Layer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluations. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, Y. Nijim, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), San Diego, CA, Sept. 13-16, 2010.

C78. Improving Energy Efficiency and Security for Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

S. Yin, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, M. Nijim, A. Tamilarasan, Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-10), Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3, 2010.

C77. TRACER: A Trace-Replay Based Load-controllable Scheme for Evaluating Energy-efficiency of Mass Storage Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

Z. Liu, F. Wu, X. Qin, C.-S. Xie, J. Zhou, and J.-Z. Wang, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Sept. 20-24, 2010.

C76. Feedback Dynamic Algorithms for Preemptable Job Scheduling in Cloud Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

J. Li, M. Qiu, J. Niu, W. Gao, Z. Zong, and X. Qin, Proc. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp. 561-564, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2010.

C75. A Fine-grained Data Reconstruction Algorithm for Solid-state Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

P. Wang, D. Hu, C.-S. Xie, J.-Z. Wang, and X. Qin, Proc. the 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Macau, July 2010.

C74. Improving MapReduce Performance via Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters. [PDF | PPT]

J. Xie, S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, Z.-Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, Proc. 19th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010.

C73. ECOS: An Energy-Efficient Cluster Storage System. [Abstract | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin, Proc. the 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 2009.

C72. Improving Reliability of Energy-Efficient Storage Systems by Disks Swapping. [Abstract | PDF]

S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Xie, J. Majors, X. Qin, Proc. the 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 2009.

C71. Performance Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Write Buffer Disks. [Abstract | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, Z. -L. Zong, and X. Qin, Proc. the 38th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2009.

C70. How Reliable are Parallel Systems When Energy-Efficient Schemes are Involved? [Abstract | PDF]

S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), New Orleans, LA, Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2009. (Received an NSF Student Travel Award by a Student Lead Author)

C69. HYBUD: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Hybrid Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, Proc. the 18th Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2009.

C68. Energy-Aware Prefetching for Parallel Disk Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluation. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, M. Nijim, X. Qin, and W. Luo, Proc. the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, MA, July 2009.

C67. Can We Improve Energy Efficiency of Secure Disk Systems without Modifying Security Mechanisms? [Abstract | PDF | PPT]

X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Proc. the 4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 2009.

C66. A Reliability Model of Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems with Data Mirroring.

F.-Y. Shen, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, and Xiao Qin, Proc. 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2009.

C65. DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency. [Abstract | PDF | PPT]

X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, Proc. the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 2009.

C64. Distributed Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications with Deadline Constraints on Data Grids. [Abstract | PDF | PPT]

C. Liu, X. Qin, S. Kulkarni, C.-J. Wang, S. Li, A. Manzanares, and S. Baskiyar, Proc. 27th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Dec. 2008.

C63. An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, Proc. the 12th IEEE Int'l Symp. Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Oct. 2008.

C62. Integrating Energy Efficiency and Security for Storage Systems.

A. Tamilarasan, M.K. Shankarapani, X. Qin, S. Mukkamala, and A.H. Sung, IEEE Int'l Conf. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp.2396-2400, 12-15 Oct. 2008.

C61. Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, Z.L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan and X. Qin, Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.

C60. PASS: Power-Aware Scheduling of Mixed Applications with Deadline Constraints on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

C. Liu, X. Qin, and S. Li, Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.

C59. Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness. [Abstract | PDF]

A. Roth, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop Next Generation Autonomous Storage and High Performance Computing, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.

C58. The Relationship Between Software Architecture and Visual Programming Languages.

A. Manzanares, D. Hamilton, and X. Qin, Proc. Grand Challenges in Modeling & Simulation, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2008.

C57. Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control. [Abstract | PDF]

K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X. Ruan, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08), July 2008. (Best Paper Award)

C56. A Prefetching Scheme for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems.

A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, and X. Qin, Proc. NSF Next Generation Software Program Workshop, April 2008.

C55. Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems.

K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, Proc. 46th ACM Southeast Conference, March 2008.

C54. A Simulation Framework for Energy-efficient Data Grids.

Z.L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, and Y.-M Yang, Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2007.

C53. Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

Z.L. Zong, X. Qin, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and M. Alghamdi, Proc. 36th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2007.

C52. An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, M. Nijim, Z.L. Zong, and K. Bellam, Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007.

C51. Interplay of Security and Reliability using Non-Uniform Checkpoints. [Abstract | PDF]

K. Bellam, R.K. Vudata, X. Qin, Z.L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X.-J. Ruan, Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007.

C50. TERCOS: A Novel Approach to Exploiting Redundancies in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems.

W. Luo, F.-M. Yang, L.-P. Pang, G. Tu, and X. Qin, Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Daegu, Korea, Aug. 2007.

C49. Design and Performance Analysis of Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems.

Z.L. Zong, M.E. Briggs, N.W. O'Connor, X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, and Y.-M. Yang, Commodity Cluster Symposium 2007 (CCS), Annapolis, Maryland, July 2007.

C48. Scheduling of Periodic Packets in Energy-Aware Wireless Networks. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, and Z.L. Zong, Proc. the 26th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communications Conf. (IPCCC'07), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2007.

C47. Reliability-Driven Scheduling of Periodic Tasks in Heterogeneous Real-Time Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

W. Luo, X. Qin, and K. Bellam, Proc. the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Ontario, Canada, May 2007.

C46. Integrating Fault Recovery and Quality of Security in Real-time Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

K. Bellam, Z.-L Zong, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing, Ontario, Canada, May 2007. (Nokia Student Travel Award)

C45. An Energy-Efficient Framework for Large-Scale Parallel Storage Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

Z.-L.Zong, M.E. Briggs, N.W. O'Connor, and X. Qin, Proc. 21st Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. (IPDPS), 8th IEEE Int'l Workshop Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, Long Beach, CA, March 2007.

C44. HAGEES: A High Availability Guaranteed Energy-Efficient Scheduling Strategy for High-Performance Clusters.

Z.L. Zong, M. Nijim, M. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. 2006 the 7th Symposium of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 2006.

C43. A Security-Oriented Task Scheduler for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, Proc. 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), pp. 35-46, Bangalore, India, Dec. 18-21, 2006.

C42. Adaptive Quality of Security Control in Networked Parallel Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, X. Qin, and T. Xie, Proc. 15th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 2006. (IEEE Student Travel Award)

C41. Energy-Efficient Duplication Strategies for Scheduling Precedence Constrained Parallel Tasks on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

Z.L. Zong, A. Manzanares, B. Stinar, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE 8th International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'06), Sept. 2006. (Best Paper Award Nomination; IEEE TCSC Student Travel Award)

C40. Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Based on Periodic Tasks for Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract]

W. Luo, F.-M. Yang, L.-P. Pang, and X. Qin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4158), Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-540-38619-3, Springer, 2006. (Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Sept. 2006)

C39. Stochastic Scheduling with Availability Constraints in Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE 8th International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'06), Sept. 2006.

C38. Solving Energy-Latency Dilemma: Task Allocation for Parallel Applications in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, and M. Nijim, Proc. 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 2006.

C37. An Adaptive Strategy for Secure Distributed Disk Systems.

M. Nijim, T. Xie, Z.L. Zong, and X. Qin, NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Work-in-Progress Session, May 2006.

C36. SAHA: A Scheduling Algorithm for security-Sensitive Jobs on Data Grids. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE/ACM 6th Int'l Symp. Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), 2nd Int'l Workshop on Cluster Security, May 2006.

C35. SHARP: A New Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm to Improve Security of Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'06), Phoenix, AZ, April 2006.

C34. Awards: An Adaptive Write Scheme for Secure Local Disk Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Nijim, X. Qin, T. Xie, and M. Alghamdi, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'06), Phoenix, AZ, April 2006.

C33. Incorporating Security into Real-Time Scheduling for Parallel Jobs on Clusters.

T. Xie and X. Qin, the 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'05), Work-in-Progress Session, Miami, FL, Dec. 2005.

C32. An Approach to Satisfying Security Needs of Periodic Tasks in High Performance Embedded Systems.

T. Xie, X. Qin, and A. Sung, the 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'05), poster session, Goa, India, Dec. 2005.

C31. PARM: A Power-Aware Message Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Wireless Networks. [Abstract | PDF]

M. Alghamdi, T. Xie, X. Qin, ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling, in conjunction with the 8th Int'l Symp. Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2005), pp. 86-92, Oct. 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

C30. A New Allocation Scheme for Parallel Applications with Deadline and Security Constraints on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), September 27-30, 2005, Boston, USA.

C29. Towards a Security Service Integration Framework for Distributed Real-Time Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and X. Qin, the 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, September 12-14, 2005.

C28. Enhancing Security of Real-Time Applications on Grids through Dynamic Scheduling. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie and Xiao Qin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3834), ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 3-540-31024-X, Springer, August 2005, pp. 219-237, Editors: Dror Feitelson, Eitan Frachtenberg, Larry Rudolph and Uwe Schwiegelshohn. (Proc. the 11th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP'05), pp.146-158, Cambridge, MA, June 2005; ACM Student Travel Award)

C27. Integrating a Performance Model in Self-Managing Computer Systems under Mixed Workload Conditions.

M. Nijim, T. Xie, and X. Qin, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 15-17, 2005.

C26. SAREC: A Security-Aware Scheduling Strategy for Real-Time Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, X. Qin, and A. Sung, the 34th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005), pp.5-12, Norway, June 14-17, 2005.

C25. Integrating Security Requirements into Scheduling for Real-Time Applications in Grid Computing.

T. Xie, X. Qin, and A. Sung, Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications, pp.24-30, June 20-23, 2005.

C24. Improving Effective Bandwidth of Networks on Clusters using Load Balancing for Communication-Intensive Applications. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and Hong Jiang, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2005), pp.27-34, Phoenix, Arizona, April 7-9, 2005.

C23. Improving Network Performance through Task Duplication for Parallel Applications on Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2005), pp.35-42, Phoenix, Arizona, April 7-9, 2005.

C22. Benchmarking the CLI for I/O Intensive Computing. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, T. Xie, A. Nathan, and V. K. Tadepalli, Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05), the 6th Int'l Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, IEEE/ACM, April 4-8, 2005.

C21. Dynamic Task Scheduling with Security Awareness in Real-Time Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

T. Xie, A. Sung, and X. Qin, Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05), the 4th Int'l Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE/ACM, April 4-8, 2005. (IEEE TCPP Student Travel Award)

C20. Improving the Performance of Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications Executing on Clusters.

X. Qin and Hong Jiang, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2004), Poster Session, San Diego, California, September 20-23, 2004.

C19. Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters. [Abstract | PDF | PS]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'03), pp.300-309, Dec.17-20, 2003, Hyderabad, India.

C18. Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster of Workstations. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2003), pp. 100-107, Hong Kong, Dec. 1-4, 2003.

C17. A Case Study of Parallel I/O for Biological Sequence Analysis on Linux Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2003), pp.100-107, Hong Kong, Dec. 1-4, 2003.

C16. Boosting Performance for I/O-Intensive Workload by Preemptive Job Migrations in a Cluster System. [Abstract | PDF | PS]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Nov.10-12, 2003, Brazil. IEEE Press.

C15. A Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for I/O-Intensive Applications in Distributed Systems. [Abstract | PDF | PS]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP'03 Workshops), pp.79-86, Taiwan, Oct. 6-9, 2003. IEEE Press.

C14. Design, Implementation, and Performance evaluation of a Cost-Effective Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, and D. Swanson, International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, in conjunction with the 12th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'03), Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

C13. Dynamic Load balancing for I/O- and Memory-Intensive workload in Clusters using a Feedback Control Mechanism. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 9th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par'03), pp. 224-229. Klagenfurt, Austria, Aug. 26-29, 2003.

C12. Scheduling for improved write performance in a Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System (CEFT-PVFS). [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, ClusterWorld Conference and Expo Partners with the Fourth LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2003, San Jose, California, June 24-26, 2003.

C11. Improved Read Performance in CEFT-PVFS: Cost Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System. [Abstract | PDF]

Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2003, pp.730-735. Workshop on Parallel I/O in Cluster Computing and Computational Grids, Japan, May 2003.

C10. An Efficient Fault-tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Real-time Tasks with Precedence Constraints in Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, and D. Swanson, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'02), pp.360-368. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 18-21, 2002. IEEE Press.

C9. Dynamic, Reliability-driven Scheduling of Parallel Real-time Jobs in Heterogeneous Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2001), pp.113-122. Valencia, Spain, September 3-7, 2001. IEEE Press.

C8. Recovery Support for Internet-based Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and C. Sun, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC), October 16-19, 2001. IEEE Press.

C7. Efficient Recovery Algorithm in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Collaborative Editing Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin and C. Sun, Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems, in conjunction with ACM 2000 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'2000), Dec. 3, 2000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

C6. Reliability-driven scheduling for real-time tasks with precedence constraints in heterogeneous distributed systems. [Abstract]

X. Qin, H. Jiang, C. Xie, and Z. Han, Proceedings of the International Conference Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems 2000, (PDCS 2000), November 6-9, 2000, Las Vegas.

C5. Real-time Scheduling for Dependable Multimedia Tasks in Multiprocessor Systems.

X. Qin, L. Pang, Z. Han, and S. Li, Proceedings of the IEEE TENCON 2000, September 2000, Malaysia.

C4. Real-time Fault-tolerant Scheduling in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. [Abstract | PDF]

X. Qin, Z. Han, H. Jin, L. Pang, and S. Li, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cluster Computing-Technologies, Environments, and Applications (CC-TEA), Vol. I, pp.421-427. Las Vegas, June 26-29, 2000.

C3. Efficient Scheduling Algorithm with Fault-tolerance for Real-time Tasks in Distributed Systems.

X. Qin, L. Pang, S. Li, and Z. Han, Proc. Int'l Conf. for Young Computer Scientists, pp.721-725, 1999, China.

C2. Real-Time Scheduling for Multi-Granularity Locks in Objected-Oriented Database.

X. Qin, L. Pang, and S. Li, Poster Session, the 23rd IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming, June, 1998, China.

C1. Real-Time Disk Scheduling for Mirrored Disk Systems.

X. Qin, L. Pang, Z. Han, and C. Gui, Poster Session, the 23rd IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming, June 1998, China.

Technical Reports and Posters [ Back to Top ]

T7. An Approach to Satisfying Security Needs of Periodic Tasks in High Performance Embedded Systems. (Refereed)

T. Xie, X. Qin, and A. H. Sung, 12th IEEE Int'l Conf. High Performance Computing (HiPC), poster session, Dec. 2005.

T6. Improving the Performance of Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications Executing on Clusters. (Refereed)

X. Qin and H. Jiang, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'04, poster session), pp. 493, Sept. 2004.

T5. Dynamic Distributed Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Applications on Clusters.

H. Jiang, D. Swanson, X. Qin, and Y. Zhu, Poster Session at CSE Research Facility Open House, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sept. 5, 2003.

T4. Boosting Performance for I/O-Intensive Workload by Preemptive Job Migrations in a Cluster System.

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Technical Report TR02-10-04, Department of Computer Sci. and Eng., Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.

T3. A Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for I/O-Intensive Applications in Distributed Systems.

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Technical Report TR02-10-02, Department of Computer Sci. and Eng., Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.

T2. An Efficient Fault-tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Real-time Tasks with Precedence Constraints in Heterogeneous Systems.

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Technical Report TR-UNL-CSE 2002-0501, Department of Computer Sci. and Eng., U. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Feb. 2002.

T1. A Fault-tolerant Real-time Scheduling Algorithm for Precedence-Constrained Tasks in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems.

X. Qin and H. Jiang, Technical Report TR-UNL-CSE 2001-1003, Department of Computer Sci. and Eng., U. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sept. 2001.

Theses [ Back to Top ]

Dynamic I/O-Aware Load Balancing and Resource Management for Clusters. [Abstract | PDF]

Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Aug. 2004. Advisor: Prof. H. Jiang

Real-time and Fault-tolerant Scheduling Models and Algorithms. [Abstract | PDF]

M.Sc. Thesis, (In Chinese). Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, April 1999. Advisor: Prof. L.-P. Pang.

Disk I/O Scheduling in Real-time Operating Systems.

B.Sc. Thesis, (In Chinese). Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, May 1996. Advisor: Prof. L.-P. Pang

Papers Published in China (1997-2002)

Xiao Qin's Publications