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  1. Complexity-Ranked Iterative Refactoring from Microservices to LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  2. UML Crisis! An Educational Perspective

    Article • June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  3. The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  4. On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems

    Article • December 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  5. Academic search engines: constraints, bugs, and recommendations

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  6. Toward Fractal Development of Data Processing-Intensive Artificial Intelligence Systems

    Article • IEEE Software, November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  7. A Novel Privacy Preservation and Quantification Methodology for Implementing Home-Care-Oriented Movement Analysis Systems

    Article • Sensors, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Zheng Li

  8. Just enough, just in time, just for "me": Fundamental principles for IoT-native software engineering

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  9. Just Enough, Just in Time, Just for “Me”: Fundamental Principles for Engineering IoT-native Software Systems

    Article • May 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  10. Managing the Root Causes of “Internal API Hell”: An Experience Report

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  11. Bonus computing: towards free-of-charge metacomputing in the public cloud

    Article • Computing, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  12. Safety-Centric and Smart Outdoor Workplace: A New Research Direction and Its Technical Challenges

    Article • October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  13. When Edge Computing Meets Compact Data Structures

    Article • October 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  14. On IoT-Friendly Skewness Monitoring for Skewness-Aware Online Edge Learning

    Article • Applied Sciences, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Zheng Li

  15. Stop Building Castles on a Swamp! The Crisis of Reproducing Automatic Search in Evidence-Based Software Engineering

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  16. Take one for the team: on the time efficiency of application-level buffer-aided relaying in edge cloud communication

    Article • Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  17. Long Live The Image: Container-Native Data Persistence in Production

    Article • March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  18. Characterising Edge-Cloud Data Transmission for Patient-Centric Healthcare Systems

    Article • March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  19. On a Factorial Knowledge Architecture for Data Science-powered Software Engineering

    Article • December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  20. Characterizing the Cloud's Outbound Network Latency: An Experimental and Modeling Study

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  21. Software-driven big data analytics

    Article • Computing, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  22. D&D: A Distributed and Disposable Approach to Privacy Preserving Data Analytics in User-Centric Healthcare

    Article • November 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  23. A dataflow-driven approach to identifying microservices from monolithic applications

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, November 2019, Elsevier

    Zheng Li

  24. In Method We Trust: Towards an Open Method Kit for Characterizing Spot Cloud Service Pricing

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  25. A study on the evaluation of HPC microservices in containerized environment

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, May 2019, Wiley

    Zheng Li

  26. Microservice-Oriented Platform for Internet of Big Data Analytics: A Proof of Concept

    Article • Sensors, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Zheng Li

  27. Do Google App Engine’s Runtimes Perform Homogeneously? An Empirical Investigation for Bonus Computing

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  28. A multi-layered performance analysis for cloud-based topic detection and tracking in Big Data applications

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, October 2018, Elsevier

    Zheng Li

  29. A Holistic Evaluation of Docker Containers for Interfering Microservices

    Article • July 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  30. On the Communication Variability Analysis of the NeCTAR Research Cloud System

    Article • IEEE Systems Journal, June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  31. Using Microservices for Rapid Creation of Remote Sensing Products

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  32. Two-Stage Performance Engineering of Container-based Virtualization

    Article • Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, February 2018, ASTES Journal

    Zheng Li

  33. A Mapping Study on Mining Software Process

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  34. From Monolith to Microservices: A Dataflow-Driven Approach

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  35. Mining Handover Process in Open Source Development: An Exploratory Study

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  36. Including Pervasive Web Content in Evidence-Based Software Engineering: A Case Study

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  37. A Survey on Modeling Energy Consumption of Cloud Applications: Deconstruction, State of the Art, and Trade-Off Debates

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  38. Performance Overhead Comparison between Hypervisor and Container Based Virtualization

    Article • March 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  39. Evaluation of Data Mining Tools for Telecommunication Monitoring Data Using Design of Experiment

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  40. Cloud Service Evaluation

    Article • May 2016, Wiley

    Zheng Li

  41. Empirical Evaluation of Big Data Analytics using Design of Experiment: Case Studies on Telecommunication Data

    Article • Services Transactions on Big Data, April 2016, Services Society

    Zheng Li

  42. Spot pricing in the Cloud ecosystem: A comparative investigation

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, April 2016, Elsevier

    Zheng Li

  43. DoKnowMe

    Article • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, February 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  44. Using a Predator-Prey Model to Explain Variations of Cloud Spot Price

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Zheng Li

  45. Autonomic deployment decision making for big data analytics applications in the cloud

    Article • Soft Computing, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li, Prof. Weishan Zhang

  46. MapReduce Job Optimization: A Mapping Study

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  47. On a Feedback Control-Based Mechanism of Bidding for Cloud Spot Service

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  48. An Overview of Cloud Based Content Delivery Networks: Research Dimensions and State-of-the-Art

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  49. CF4BDA: A Conceptual Framework for Big Data Analytics Applications in the Cloud

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li, Prof. Weishan Zhang

  50. On Cloud Spot Market: An Overview of the Research

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  51. Object-oriented Sokoban solver: A serious game project for OOAD and AI education

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  52. BOOSTING METRICS: MEASURING CLOUD SERVICES FROM THE HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE

    Article • Services Transactions on Cloud Computing, October 2014, Services Society

    Zheng Li

  53. On the Conceptualization of Performance Evaluation of IaaS Services

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  54. Towards understanding the runtime configuration management of do-it-yourself content delivery network applications over public clouds

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, July 2014, Elsevier

    Zheng Li

  55. Impact of Product Complexity on Actual Effort in Software Developments: An Empirical Investigation

    Article • April 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  56. The Cloud's Cloudy Moment: A Systematic Survey of Public Cloud Service Outage

    Article • International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER), December 2013, Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

    Zheng Li

  57. Early Observations on Performance of Google Compute Engine for Scientific Computing

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  58. On evaluating commercial Cloud services: A systematic review

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, September 2013, Elsevier

    Zheng Li

  59. Applying Design of Experiments (DOE) to Performance Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services

    Article • International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, July 2013, IGI Global

    Zheng Li

  60. CEEM: A Practical Methodology for Cloud Services Evaluation

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  61. Boosting Metrics for Cloud Services Evaluation -- The Last Mile of Using Benchmark Suites

    Article • March 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  62. Towards Interdisciplinary Approach to SOA Implementations

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zheng Li

  63. A factor framework for experimental design for performance evaluation of commercial cloud services

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  64. Building an Expert System for Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services

    Article • November 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  65. On a Catalogue of Metrics for Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  66. Towards a Taxonomy of Performance Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  67. Circumstantial-evidence-based effort judgement for web service composition-based SOA implementations

    Article • International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, January 2012, Inderscience Publishers

    Zheng Li

  68. A Qualitative Approach to Effort Judgment for Web Service Composition Based SOA Implementations

    Article • March 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  69. Facing Service-Oriented System Engineering challenges: An organizational perspective

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  70. Towards SOA implementation complexity measurement enlightened by organization theory

    Article • June 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zheng Li

  71. Software Cost Estimation Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture Systems Using Divide-and-Conquer Approach

    Article • June 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li

  72. Effort-Oriented Classification Matrix of Web Service Composition

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Zheng Li