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Xia Zhao

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Xia Zhao, Research Assistant

Xia joined IRAC in June 2007 as a research assistant on Web Services. She now mainly works in the EU FP7 project: VPHOP.  

Education

  • BSc Computer Science and Education, Liaoning Normal University, China, 2004
  • MSc (Dist) Software Engineering for the e-Economy, University of Leicester, 2006

Projects

  • VPHOP - The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human: EU FP7 (FP7-ICT-223865), 2008-2012.
  • ContraCancrum - Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling: EU FP7 (FP7-ICT-2-223979), 2008-2011.
  • LHDL - The Living Human Digital Library: EU FP6 (FP6-2004-IST-026932), 2006-2009.
  • BIOPATTERN - Computational intelligence for Bio-pattern analysis in support of eHealthcare: EU FP6 (FP6-2002-IST 508803), 2004-2007.

Journal Papers

  • X. Zhao, E. liu, G. J. Clapworthy, M. Viceconti, D. Testi, SOA-based Digital Library Services and Composition in Biomedical Applications. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier, 2010. 
  • X. Zhao, T. Wang, E. Liu, G. J. Clapworthy, Web Services in Distributed Information Systems: Availability, performance and Composition. In: N Bessis (ed.), International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 1 (1) : 1-16, ICI Global, 2010. 

Book Chapters

  • E. Liu, X. Zhao and G. J. Clapworthy, Building Service-Oriented Grid Applications. In: N Bessis (ed.), Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations, ICI Global, 2008.

Conference Papers

  • X. Zhao, E. Liu, G. J. Clapworthy, N. Ye, RESTful Web Service Composition: Extracting a Process Model from Linear Logic Theorem Proving, The 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'11), Salamanca, Spain. (accepted)
  • X. Zhao, E. Liu, G. J. Clapworthy, A Two-Stage RESTful Web Service Composition Method Based on Linear Logic, The 9th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'11), Lugano, Switzerland. (accepted)
  • H. Wei,  E. Liu, X. Zhao,  N. Mcfarlane, G. J. Clapworthy, Web-Based 3D Visualisation for Biomedical Applications, Intenational Conference on Medical Visualisation (MediVis11), London, UK. (accepted)
  • N. Ye, Y. Zhao, X. Zhao, E. Liu, G. Clapworthy, A Linked Data-Driven Solution to User Modeling in a Multi-Application Environment. 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (IEEE ICSESS 2011), July 2011, Beijing, China. (to appear)
  • T. Wang,  Y. Zhao, E. Liu,  G. Clapworthy, X. Zhao, H. Wei, F. Dong. Using Web Services as Functional-Level Plug Ins for Interactive 3D Medical Visualisation. 7th International Conference BioMedical Visualization (MediVis10), July 2010, London, UK.
  • D.Testi, X. Zhao, E. Liu, G. J. Clapworthy, Physiomespace: Execution Services to Remotely Pre-process and Preview Biomedical Data, Proc 4th International Conference on Computational Bioengineering (ICCB 2009), September, 2009, Bertinoro, Italy. 
  • X. Zhao, E. Liu, G. J. Clapworthy, P. Quadrani, D. Testi and M. Viceconti, Using Web Services for Distributed Medical Visualisation, Proc Intenational Conference on Medical Visualisation (MediVis08), pp. 57-62, July 2008, London, UK.
  • X. Zhao, E. Liu and G. J. Clapworthy, Service-Oriented Digital Libraries: A Web Services Approach, Proc 3rd International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW2008), pp. 608-613, June 2008, Athens, Greece.
  • X. Zhao, N. Outram, K. G. Rosén, E. C. Ifeachor, Prototype Implementation of an Earlylife Bioprofiling System, Proc 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED2007), July 25-27, 2007, Plymouth, UK

Contact

Xia Zhao
T: +44 (0)1582 743717
E: xia.zhao@beds.ac.uk

Bedfordshire University

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