Some Selected Refereed Publications
    Edited Books:
  1. G. Dong, X. Lin, W. Wang, Y. Yang and J X Yu, Editors, Advances in Data and Web Management. 896 pages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4505, Springer-Verlag, 896 pages, 2007.
  2. W. Shen, Y. Yang, J. Yong, I. Hawryszkiewycz, Z. Lin, J-P. Bartes, M. L. Maher, Q. Hao and M. H. Tran, Editors, Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. on CSCWD. 1143 pages, April 2007. (ISBN: 1-4244-0962-4)
  3. Y. Yang, M. Li and A. Ellis, Editors, Web technologies and applications. International Academic Publishers. 378 pages, Sept. 1998. (ISBN: 7-80003-433-X)

    4. Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

  4. Q. He, J. Yan, R. Kowalczyk, H. Jin, Y. Yang, Lifetime Service Level Agreement Management with Autonomous Agents for Services Provision (pdf - 1508K). Information Sciences, Elsevier, to appear (accepted on May 11, 2008).
  5. J. Chen and Y. Yang, A Taxonomy of Grid Workflow Verification and Validation (pdf - 141K). Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 20(4):347-360, 2008.
  6. L. Li and Y. Yang, Agent Negotiation Based Ontology Refinement Process and Mechanisms for Service Applications (pdf - 305K). Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer, to appear (accepted on Feb. 9, 2008).
  7. K. Liu, J. Chen, Y. Yang and H. Jin, A Throughput Maximization Strategy for Scheduling Transaction Intensive Workflows on SwinDeW-G (pdf - 289K). Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120748007/HTMLSTART, (accepted on Feb. 7, 2008).
  8. Y. Liu, J. Wang, Y. Yang and J. Sun, A Semi-Automatic Approach for Workflow Staff Assignment. Computers in Industry, Elsevier, 59(5):463-476, May 2008.
  9. Q. Wang, L. Gou, N. Jiang, M. Che, R. Zhang, Y. Yang and M. Li, Estimating Fixing Effort and Schedule based on Defect Injection Distribution. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Wiley, to appear (accepted on Nov. 3, 2007).
  10. L. Li and Y. Yang, Agent-based Ontology Mapping and Integration towards Interoperability (pdf - 352K). Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Blackwell Publishing, to appear (accepted on June 29, 2007).
  11. J. Chen and Y. Yang, Adaptive Selection of Necessary and Sufficient Checkpoints for Dynamic Verification of Temporal Constraints in Grid Workflow Systems (pdf - 608K). ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2(2):Article6, June 2007.
  12. J. Shen, G. Grossmann, Y. Yang, M. Stumptner, M. Schrefl and T. Reiter, Analysis of Business Process Integration in Web Service Context (pdf - 519K). Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 23(3):283-294, 2007.
  13. J. Chen and Y. Yang, Multiple States based Temporal Consistency for Dynamic Verification of Fixed-time Constraints in Grid Workflow Systems (pdf - 288K). Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 19(7):965-982, 2007.
  14. J. Shen, Y. Yang and J. Yan, A P2P based Service Flow System with Advanced Ontology-based Service Profiles (pdf - 303K). International Journal on Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, 21(2):221-229, 2007.
  15. M. H. Tran, G. K. Raikundalia and Y. Yang, Using an Experimental Study to Develop Group Awareness Support for Real-time Distributed Collaborative Writing (pdf - 2.28M). Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, 48(11):1006-1024, Nov. 2006.
  16. J. Yan, Y. Yang and G. K. Raikundalia. SwinDeW - A Peer-to-peer based Decentralized Workflow Management System (pdf - 271K). IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, 36(5):922-935, 2006.
  17. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K. Raikundalia, The F@ Framework for Designing Awareness Mechanisms in Instant Messaging (pdf - 148K). The Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 13(2):119-134, May 2006.
  18. H. Li and Y. Yang. Dynamic Checking of Temporal Constraints for Concurrent Workflows (pdf - 475K). Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier, 4(2):124-142, 2005.
  19. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K. Raikundalia, Consumption of Multiple Concurrent Identities: The Need from the Instant Messaging Virtual Community (pdf - 145k). The Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Special Issue:4-20, Dec. 2004.
  20. H. Li, Y. Yang and T.Y. Chen. Resource Constraints Analysis of Workflow Specifications (pdf - 378K). Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 73(2):271-285, Oct. 2004.
  21. J. Shen and Y. Yang. Extending RDF in Distributed Knowledge-Intensive Applications (pdf - 225K). Future Generation Computer Systems, (special issue on “Grid and Knowledge Grid: The Next-Generation Web”), Elsevier, 20(1):27-46, 2004.
  22. J. Yong and Y. Yang, Fostering E-Commerce among Australian SMEs. IEEE IT Professional, 5(5):21-24, Sept/Oct. 2003.
  23. T. Y. Chen, I. Rahwan and Y. Yang. Temporal interaction diagrams for multi-process environments. Practicing Software Engineering in the 21st Century. Chapter 10, pages 143-156, IRM Press, USA, 2003.
  24. Y. Yang and J. Cheng. Applying software performance engineering method to development of interactive software, Journal of Software, Science Press, 13(10):1921-1932, 2002.
  25. Y. Yang. Enabling cost-effective light-weight disconnected workflow for Web-based teamwork support (pdf - 58K). Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Cambridge, England, 3(2):437-453, 2002.
  26. Y. Yang, C. Sun, Y. Zhang and X. Jia. Real-time cooperative editing on the Internet (pdf - 239K). IEEE Internet Computing, 4(3):18-25, 2000.
  27. Y. Yang. An Architecture and the Related Mechanisms for Web-based Global Cooperative Teamwork Support (pdf - 121K). Int. Journal of Computing and Informatics, 24(1):13-20, 2000.
  28. Y. Zhang, Y. Kambayashi, X. Jia, Y. Yang and C. Sun, On interactions between co-existing traditional and cooperative transactions. Int. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 8(2/3):87-109, 1999.
  29. C. Sun, X. Jia, Y. Zhang, Y. Yang and D. Chen. Achieving convergence, causality-preservation, and intention-preservation in real-time cooperative editing systems (pdf - 267K). ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 5(1):63-108, Mar. 1998.
  30. Y. Yang, An integrated framework for software development environments to incorporate task, team and tool perspectives. Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics, Vol. 21A, pages 61-64, Elsevier, North-Holland, 1997.
  31. C. Sun, Y. Zhang and Y. Yang, Distributed synchronisation of group operations in cooperative editing environments. Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. Technomic Publishing Co. Inc., Vol. 4(3):293-302, Sept. 1996.
  32. Y. Yang, Effective integration of multiple tools in a loosely-coupled tool interfacing paradigm for CASE. IFIP Transactions A-54:625-634, Elsevier, North-Holland, 1994.
  33. J. Welsh and Y. Yang, Integration of semantic tools into document editors. Software --- Concepts and Tools, Springer-Verlag, 15(2):68-81, 1994.

    Conference/Workshop Papers (Refereed Only):

  34. X. Liu, J. Chen and Y. Yang, A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows (pdf - 679K), Proc. 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5240, pages 180-195, Sept. 2008 Milan, Italy.
  35. Q. He, J. Yan, Y. Yang, R. Kowalczyk and H. Jin, Chord4S: A P2P-based Decentralised Service Discovery Approach, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC2008), pages 221-228, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2008.
  36. N. Saeed and Y. Yang, Using Learning Styles and Preferences to Incorporate Emerging E-learning Tools in Teaching (pdf - 217K), Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2008), pages 967-971, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, July 2008.
  37. J. Chen and Y. Yang, Temporal Dependency based Checkpoint Selection for Dynamic Verification of Fixed-time Constraints in Grid Workflow Systems (pdf - 686K), Proc. of 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2008), pages 141-150, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.
  38. N. Saeed and Y. Yang, Incorporating Blogs, Social Bookmarks, and Podcasts into Unit Teaching, Proc. of 10th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2008), pages 113-118, Wollongong, Australia, Jan. 2008.
  39. H. Zha, Y. Yang, J. Wang and L. Wen, Transforming XPDL to Petri Nets, Proc. of the Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4928, pages 197-207, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  40. Y. Yang, K. Liu, J. Chen, J. Lignier, and H. Jin, Peer-to-Peer Based Grid Workflow Runtime Environment of SwinDeW-G (pdf - 225K), Proc. of 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science07), pages 51-58, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2007.
  41. Q. He, J. Yan, Y. Yang, R. Kowalczyk, and H. Jin, Towards Collaborative Service Level Agreement Negotiation, Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM2007), pages 123-134, Leipzig, Germany, Sept. 2007.
  42. X. Zhao, C. Liu, Y. Yang and W. Sadiq, Handling Instance Correspondence in Inter-Organisational Workflows, The 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4495, pages 51-65, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  43. Q. He, J. Yan, H. Jin, R. Kowalczyk and Y. Yang, An Agent-based Framework for Service Level Agreement Management, Proc. of the 11th International Conference on CSCW in Design (CSCWD2007), pages 412-417, Melbourne, Australia, Apr. 2007.
  44. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K Raikundalia, SWIM: An Alternative Interface for MSN Messenger, Proc. of 8th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2007), Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol. 29, No. 3, pages 55-62, Ballarat, Australia, Jan./Feb. 2007.
  45. L. Li, Y. Yang and B. Wu, An Agent-based Ontological Approach for Information Reorganisation. The 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4304, pages 1096-1100, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
  46. J. Chen and Y. Yang, Assigning Local Fixed-time Constraints in Grid Workflow Systems, Proc. of International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC2006), 227-234, Changsha, China, Oct. 2006.
  47. J. Shen, J. Yan and Y. Yang, SwinDeW-S: Extending P2P Workflow Systems for Adaptive Composite Web Services, Proc. of Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2006), pp61-69, Sydney, Australia, April. 2006.
  48. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K Raikundalia, Extended Radar View and Modification Director: Awareness Mechanisms for Synchronous Collaborative Authoring, Proc. of 7th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2006), pp35-42, Hobart, Australia, Jan. 2006.
  49. J. Shen, Y. Yang and Q. H. Huy, SwinDeW-B: A P2P based Composite Service Execution System with BPEL. Proc. of Workshop on Dynamic Web Processes (DWP 2005), pp73-84, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dec. 2005.
  50. J. Chen and Y. Yang, Multiple Temporal Consistency States for Dynamical Verification of Upper Bound Constraints in Grid Workflow Systems (pdf - 406K), Proc. of 1st International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science05), pp124-131, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2005.
  51. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K Raikundalia, Supporting Awareness in Instant Messaging: The Empirical Study and Mechanism Design, Proc. of OZCHI, CD ISBN 1-59593-222-4, Canberra, Australia, Nov. 2005.
  52. J. Yan, Y. Yang, R. Kowalczyk, X. T. Nguyen, A Service Workflow Management Framework based on Peer-to-Peer and Agent Technologies (pdf - 209K), International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows (associated with QSIC), pp373-380, Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 2005.
  53. L. Li, Y. Yang and B. Wu, Agent-based Ontology Mapping towards Ontology Interoperability. The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI05), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3809, pages 843-846, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  54. X. Zhao. C. Liu and Y. Yang. An Organisational Perspective on Collaborative Business Processes. Business Process Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3649, pages 17-30, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  55. J. Yan, Y. Yang and G. K. Raikundalia. Towards Incompletely Specified Process Support in SwinDeW – a  Peer-to-Peer based Workflow System (pdf - 70K). Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (1), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3168, pages 328-338, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  56. L. Li, B. Wu and Y. Yang, Agent-Based Approach for Dynamic Ontology Management, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3683, pages 1-7, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  57. B. Wu, M. N. Dewan, L. Li and Y. Yang, Supply Chain Protocoling, Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05), pp314-321, Munich, Germany, July 2005.
  58. J. Shen, Y. Yang, C. Zhu and C Wan, From BPEL4WS to OWL-S: Integrating E-Business Process Descriptions. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC2005), pp181-188, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2005.
  59. J. Shen, Y. Yang and J. Yan, Adapting P2P based Decentralised Workflow System SwinDeW-S with Web Service Profile Support (pdf - 63K), Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2005), pp535-540, Coventry, UK, May 2005.
  60. L. Li, B. Wu and Y. Yang, Semantic Mapping with Multi-Agent Systems. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05), pp54-57, Hong Kong, Mar. 2005.
  61. J. Chen, Y. Yang and T.Y. Chen, Dynamic Verification of Temporal Constraints on-the-fly for Workflow Systems (pdf - 305K). Proc. of 11th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conf. (APSEC04), pp30-37, Busan, Korea, Nov./Dec. 2004.
  62. M. H. Tran, Y. Yang and G. K Raikundalia, Supporting Multiple Identities in the Instant Messaging Virtual Community. Proc. of OZCHI, CD ISBN 1-74128-079, Wollongong, Australia, Nov. 2004.
  63. X. Zhao, C. Liu and Y. Yang, A Web Services Based Architecture for Workflow Management Systems. Database and Expert Systems Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3180, pages 34-43, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  64. M. H. Tran, G. K. Raikundalia and Y. Yang, What Are You Looking At? Newest Findings from an Empirical Study of Group Awareness. Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3101, pages 491-500, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  65. Y. Yang, W. Lai, J. Shen, X. Huang, J. Yan, and L. Setiawan, Effective Visualisation of Workflow Enactment (pdf - 218K). Advanced Web Technologies and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3007, pages 794-803, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  66. J. Yan, Y. Yang and G. K. Raikundalia, Decentralised Coordination for Software Process Enactment. Software Process Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2786, pages 164-172, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  67. J. Shen and Y. Yang, RDF-based knowledge models for network management, Proc. 8th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2003), pp123-126, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, Mar. 2003.
  68. Y. Yang, Tool interfacing mechanisms for programming-for-the-large and programming-for-the-small (pdf - 112K), Proc. of 9th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conf. (APSEC02), pp359-365, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 2002.
  69. Y. Yang, Supporting online Web-based teamwork in offline mobile mode too. Proc. of 1st Int. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2000), pp486-490, Hong Kong, June 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  70. Y. Yang, Tool integration in a process-centred Web-based teamwork support environment in Java. Proc. of ASWEC'2000, pp215-220, Canberra, Australia, Apr. 2000.
  71. Y. Yang, D. Zhang and P. Wojcieszak, Coordination management with two types of databases in a Web-based cooperative system for teamwork. Proc. of 1st International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems, pp47-52, Baden-Baden, Germany, Aug. 1999.
  72. Y. Yang, Issues on supporting distributed software processes. Software Process Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1487, pages 143-147, Springer-Verlag, Sept. 1998.
  73. Y. Zhang, Y. Kambayashi, Y. Yang, and C. Sun, A new timestamp ordering approach for co-existing traditional and cooperative transaction processing. Proc. of CoopIS'98, pp132-141, New York, Aug. 1998.
  74. C. Sun, X. Jia, Y, Zhang and Y. Yang, A generic operation transformation scheme for consistency maintenance in real-time cooperative editing systems. Proc. of International Conference on Supporting Group Work, pp425-434, ACM Press, Phoenix, USA, Nov. 1997.
  75. Y. Yang and J. Han, Classification of and experimentation on tool interfacing in software development environments. Proc. of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conf. (APSEC'96). IEEE Computer Society Press, pp56-65, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 1996.
  76. C. Sun, Y. Yang, Y. Zhang and D. Chen, A consistency model and supporting schemes for real-time cooperative editing systems. Australian Computer Science Communications, 18(1):582-591, 1996.
  77. Y. Yang, Coordination for process support is not enough! Software Process Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 913, pages 205-208, Springer-Verlag, 1995.