Dr Jitian Xiao

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  9370 6056  
Facsimile: (61 8)  61 8 9370 6100  
Email: j.xiao@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML13.236  

 

Responsibilities

Jitian is a senior lecturer in computer science and the Course Coordinator for U67 Bachelor of Information Technology.

Current Teaching

  • Data Structures
  • Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Background / Employment History

  • 2001-present: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Security Science, ECU
  • 2000-2001: Lecturer, Gippsland School of Computer and Information Science, Monash University, Australia
  • 1997-2000: PhD candidate and tutor, School of Mathematics and Computing, The University of Sothern Queensland, Australia
  • 1983-1996: Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Information Science, Hebei University, China

Staff Qualifications

  • PhD – The University of Sothern Queensland, Australia
  • Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Teaching) – Edith Cowan University
  • Master of Engineering in Computer Science – Changsha Institute of Technology, China
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computing and Mathematics – Hebei University, China

Professional Memberships

  • IEEE Senior member
  • Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Research

Research Interests

  • Database and applications
  • Data mining and web mining
  • Decision support Information system and forecasting
  • Network application
  • Internationalisation

Current Research Areas

  • Internationalisation

Recent Research Grants

  • January 2010 - December 2011, Multi-channel Strategies for Retaining and Increasing Chinese International Students Enrolment at ECU, CHS Faculty Leaning and Teaching grants Scheme 2010, Edith Cowan University, Funding: $9,226.
  • September 2007 - November 2009, Strategies and Approaches to Teaching and Learning Cross Cultures, Competitive Grants, Supported by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), Grant No.: CGT-497, Funding: $114,000.
  • January 2005 – March 2006, Intelligent Strategies and Parallel Algorithms for Spatial Data Clustering and Join Processing, ECU Early Career Research Grant Scheme (grant holder), Edith Cowan University, Funding: $14,000.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

  • Jitian Xiao, Panida Subsorn, A New Latex Price Forecasting Model to Reduce the Risk of Rubber Overproduction in Thailand, to appear in Risk Management in Decision Making: Intelligent Methodologies and Application, Editors:Jie Lu, Lakhmi Jain, Guangquan Zhang, to be published by Springer in 2010.
  • Savo Kordic, C Peng Lam, Jitian XIAO, Huaizhong Li, Cui, Chapter 2 Patterns Relevant to the Temporal Data – Context of an Alarm of Interest, inDynamic and Advanced Data Mining for Progressing and technological Development: Innovations and Systematic Approaches, Editors: A B M Shawkat ALI &Yang XIANG, ISBN No.: 978-1-60566-908-3, 2010, pp18-39, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, USA.
  • Panida Subsorn, Jitian XIAO, Judy Clayden, Forecasting Rubber Production using Intelligent Time Series Analysis to Support Decision Makers, Decision Support Systems, Advances In, editor: Ger Devlin, ISNB No.: 978-953-307-069-8, 2010, pp43 – 56, Intech, Rijeka, Croatia.
  • Jitian Xiao, A Similarity-aware Web Content Caching Scheme and Agent-based Web Document Pre-fetching (Chapter 9), E-Service Intelligence Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, J. Lu; D. Ruan, G. Zhang (Eds.), Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 37, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN-10: 3-540-37015-3, ISBN-13: 978-3-540-37015-4, 2006, pp213-232.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Savo Kordic, Chiou Peng Lam, Jitian Xiao, Huaizhong Li. Using Event-intervals to Analaze Alarm Sequences in a Chemical Plant. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology, 2009 3(3), ISSN 1673-9418, 2009, pp43-57.

Conference Papers

  • Yongrui Qin, Hua Wang and Jitian Xiao. Effective Scheduling Algorithm for On-Demand XML Data Broadcasts in Wireless Environments. In Proc. Of 19th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2011), Perth, Australia. 17-19 January, 2011. Heng Tao Shen and Yanchun Zhang Eds., page 95-102.
  • Jitian XIAO, Construction of Similarity Profile of Dynamic Web Documents for Similarity-aware Web Content Management. In the Proceedings of The IET 3rd International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Multimedia Networks (ICWMMN2010), Sept. 26-29, 2010, Beijing, China, Page 335-338.
  • Jie Lu, K. L. Chin, Juan Yao, Jun Xu and Jitian Xiao, Cross-Cultural Education: Learning Methodology and Behaviour Analysis for Asian Students in IT Field of Australian Universities, In the Proceedings of 12th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010), Brisbane, Australia, January 2010, Page 117-126.
  • Kathryn Egea, Jie Lu, Jitian Xiao and Tony Clear, “ACE2010 Panel: Internationalisation and Cross Cultural Issues in Computing Education”, Proceedings of 12th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010), Brisbane, Australia, January 2010, Page 25-31.
  • Jitian Xiao, Jie Lu, K. L. Chin, Jun Xu and Juan Yao, Cross-Cultural Learning Challenges And Teaching Strategies For First-Year Asian Students In Australian Universities, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU2010), Vol. 2, Valencia, Spain, April 7-10, 2010, ISBN: 978-989-674-024-5, pp297-308.
  • Panel paper 2: Jie Lu, K. L. Chin, Juan Yao, Jun Xu and Jitian Xiao, Cross-Cultural Education: Learning Methodology and Behaviour Analysis for Asian Students in IT Field of Australian Universities. Proceedings of 12th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010), Brisbane, Australia, January 2010, Page 26-27.
  • Panel paper 3: Jitian Xiao, Jie Lu, KL Chin, Jun Xu, Juan Yao, Challenges and Strategies in Teaching First-year Asian International Students in Australian Universities. Proceedings of 12th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010), Brisbane, Australia, January 2010, Page 27-28.
  • Jie Lu, Kum Leng Chin, Juan Yao, Jun Xu, Jitian Xiao, Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning Methodology Analysis for Asian Students in Australian Universities, Proc. of International Conference on Innovation in Teaching and Management of Higher Education (ICITM2009), ISBN No.: 978-983-41527-1-0, Terengganu, Malaysia. 21-23 Dec., 2009.
  • Kum Leng Chin, Jie Lu, Jun Xu, Jitian Xiao and Juan Yao, Cross-cultural learning and teaching in Australian universities, Proc. of “Improving University Teaching (IUT): 34th International Conference on Navigating Innovations in Teaching and Learning”, hosted by Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus, Vancouver, Canada, July 14 - 17, 2009.
  • Jitian XIAO, A Match-based Approach to Optimize Conformance Test Sequence Generation using Mp-method, Proceedings 2009 International Forum for Computer Science, Technology and Application, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN No.: 978-0-7695-3930-0), Chongqing China, 25-27 Dec. 2009, pp392-395.
  • Jitian XIAO, Caching Dynamic Web Documents using Similarity Profiles, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Science and Technology (AISAT 2009), Hobart, Australia, 23-24 Nov. 2009.
  • Panida Subsorn, Jitian XIAO, Price Forecasting in the Public Agricultural Rubber Industry in Thailand: A Preliminary Investigation, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Science and Technology (AISAT 2009), Hobart, Australia, 23-24 Nov. 2009. pp
  • Jitian XIAO, Mining Evolving Web Sessions and Clustering Dynamic Web Documents for Similarity-aware Web Content Management, The Proceedings of The 4th International conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, LNAI 5139 (published by Springer Verlag), Chengdu, China, 8-10 October, 2008. Pp99-110.
  • Savo Kordic, Peng Lam, Jitian Xiao & Huaizhong Li, Analysis of Alarm Sequences in a Chemical Plant, The Proceedings of The 4th International conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, LNAI 5139 (published by Springer Verlag), Chengdu, China, 8-10 October, 2008. Pp135-146.
  • Jitian XIAO, Jun Wang, A type of variation of Hamilton Problem with Applications, The Proceedings of The 9th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (by IEEE Press), Zhang Jia Jie, Hunan, China - November 18-21, 2008. Pp88-93.
  • Savo Kordic, Peng Lam, Jitian Xiao & Huaizhong Li, Finding the Threshold Relevant to the Temporal Data Context of an Alarm of Interest, to appear in The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 5351 (published by Springer Verlag),, 15-19 December, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008. Pp985-990.
  • Panida Subsorn, Jitian Xiao and Kuki Singh. A Web-Based Application of Group Decision Making in a Fuzzy Environment, Proceedings of ECTI-CON 2008, Krabi, Thailand, 14-17 May 2008, pp17-20.
  • Jitian Xiao, Sequencing Clusters of Spatial Join Operations Using Weighted Match Proc. of The Sixth International Workshop for Applied PKC, Perth, Western Australia, 3 - 4 December, 2007, pp107-116.
  • Jitian Xiao, Applying Concept-Mapping Technique to Building Super- and Sub-type Relationships in Enhanced Entity-Relationship Modelling, E-proceedings of TILC2007 conference, 3 - 4 December 2007, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Savo Kordic, Peng Lam, Jitian Xiao & Huaizhong Li, Associative Data Mining for Alarm Groupings in Chemical Processes, Proc. of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, October, 2007 Chengdu, China, ISBN: 978-90-78677-04-8, pp191 – 198.
  • C. P. Lam, Jitian Xiao, and H. Li, Ant Colony Optimisation for Generation of Conformance Testing Sequences using Characterising Sequences, Proceedings of The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACS2007), Phuket, Thailand. April 2007, ACTA Press. PP140-146.
  • J. Wang, C. P. Lam, Jitian Xiao, H. Li, A Bipartite Graph Matching Approach to Generate Optimal Test Sequences for Protocol Conformance Testing using the Generalized Wp-method, Proceedings of The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACS2007), Phuket, Thailand, April 2007, ACTA Press. pp147-152.
  • Jitian Xiao, A Comparison of Heuristics for Scheduling Spatial Clusters to Reduce I/O Cost in Spatial Join Processing, The Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2006), Dalian, China, August 2006, IEEE Press, pp.2455-2460.
  • Jitian Xiao, Chiou Peng Lam, Huaizhong Li, Jun Wang, Reformulation of the Generation of Conformance Testing Sequences to the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem, Proceedings of International Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 8-12, 2006, ACM Press, pp.1933-1940.

Research Student Supervision

Current

  • Savo Kordic, PhD
  • Harvey Martin, Master by Research

Recent

  • Panida Subsorn, DIT