By Dr Liming Zhu

Journal articles

Phoomvuthisarn S; Liu Y; Zhu L; Jeffery R, 2013, 'Integrating a market-based model in trust-based service systems', Tsinghua Science and Technology, 18, pp. 554 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TST.2013.6678901

Xu X; Zhu L; Li J; Bass L; Lu Q; Fu M, 2013, 'Modeling and analysing operation processes for dependability', Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2013.6575337

Fu M; Zhu L; Liu A; Xu X; Bass L, 2013, 'Process-oriented recovery for operations on cloud applications', Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Cloud Computing Socc 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2523616.2525958

Zhang H; Zhu L; Kuz I, 2012, 'Welcome message of the chairs', 2012 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems Sees 2012 Proceedings, pp. 3 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SEES.2012.6225483

Kannengiesser U; Zhu L, 2011, 'Towards concise architectures for flexible business processes', , pp. 96 - 116

Liu Y; Liang X; Xu L; Staples M; Zhu L, 2011, 'Composing enterprise mashup components and services using architecture integration patterns', Journal of Systems and Software, 84, pp. 1436 - 1446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2011.01.030

Chiam YK; Zhu L; Staples M, 2010, 'Systematic selection of quality attribute techniques', ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 59 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1961258.1961273

Kannengiesser U; Zhu L, 2009, 'An ontologically-based evaluation of software design methods', Knowledge Engineering Review, 24, pp. 41 - 58, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1520272

Liu Y; Truong S; Chen S; Zhu L, 2008, 'Composing adaptive Web services on COTS middleware', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services Icws 2008, pp. 377 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.74

Kitchenham BA; Al-Kilidar H; Ali Babar M; Berry MJ; Cox KA; Keung W; Kurniawati F; Staples M; Zhu L; Zhang H, 2008, 'Evaluating guidelines for reporting empirical software engineering studies', Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, 13, pp. 97 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-007-9053-5

Zhu L; Liu Y; Bui NB; Gorton I, 2007, 'Revel8or: Model driven capacity planning tool suite', Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 797 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2007.73

Zhu L; Liu Y; Gorton I; Kuz I, 2007, 'Tools for model driven development', Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.563

Zhu L; Gorton I, 2007, 'UML profiles for design decisions and non-functional requirements', Proceedings ICSE 2007 Workshops Second Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge Architecture Rationale and Design Intent Shark Adi 07, pp. 8 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SHARK-ADI.2007.14

Zhu L; Lang J; Hai N; Wong WF, 2007, 'Comparing vaginal tape and transobturator tape for the treatment of mild and moderate stress incontinence', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 99, pp. 14 - 17

Zhu L; Osterweil L; Staples M; Simidchieva B, 2007, 'Desiderata for languages to be used in the definition of reference business processes', International journal of software and informatics, 1, pp. 37 - 66

Zhu L; Bui N; Liu Y; Gorton I, 2007, 'MDABench: Customized benchmark generation using MDA', Journal of Systems and Software, 80, pp. 265 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.10.052

Kitchenham B; Al-Khilidar H; Babar MA; Berry M; Cox K; Keung J; Kurniawati F; Staples M; He Z; Liming Z, 2006, 'Evaluating guidelines for empirical software engineering studies', Isese 06 Proceedings of the 5th ACM IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2006, pp. 38 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1159733.1159742

Babar MA; Kitchenham B; Zhu L; Gorton I; Jeffery R, 2006, 'An empirical study of groupware support for distributed software architecture evaluation process', Journal of Systems and Software, 79, pp. 912 - 925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2005.06.043

Ye X; Yang X; Zhu L; Wang N; Qiu J, 2006, 'Research of government horizon business integration management system based on HRNM and agent', Proceedings 2006 IEEE Wic ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Wi Iat 2006 Workshops Proceedings, pp. 558 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.110

Zhu L; Aurum A; Jeffery DR; Gorton I, 2005, 'Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process', Software Quality Journal, 13, pp. 357 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11219-005-4251-0

Conference Papers

Wang M; Wang J; Liu Q; Xu X; Xing Z; Zhu L; Bain M; Zhang W, 2026, 'Ensembling LLM-Induced Decision Trees for Explainable and Robust Error Detection', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 4963 - 4974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3817642

Yang S; Hu Z; Li X; Wang C; Yu T; Xu X; Zhu L; Yao L, 2026, 'DrunkAgent: Stealthy Memory Corruption in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 6853 - 6864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792688

Tan X; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Yuan X; Zhu L; Zhang W, 2026, 'MemoTime: Memory-Augmented Temporal Knowledge Graph Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 4220 - 4231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792581

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J, 2026, 'Bi-level Personalization for Federated Foundation Models: ATask-vector Aggregation Approach', in Proceedings of the Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 27702 - 27710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i33.39991

Hu Z; Wang C; Shu Y; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2026, 'Concept based Ambiguity Resolution in LLMs', in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Chua J; Wang C; Zhu L; Yao L, 2026, 'Guardrail Guided Policy Optimisation: Learning Disentangled Safety Constraints', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 414 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4972-6_32

Zhu L, 2025, 'Designing for Meaningful Oversight: Human and Organisational Agency in Multimodal AI Systems', in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, pp. 2 - 2, presented at ICMI '25: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3716553.3757097

Yuan M; Chen J; Xing Z; Quigley A; Luo Y; Luo T; Mohammadi G; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'DesignRepair: Dual-Stream Design Guideline-Aware Frontend Repair with Large Language Models', Canada, presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Canada, 27 April 2025

Xu X; Zhang D; Liu Q; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-Retrieval', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa C 2025, pp. 498 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00074

Wang D; Moore K; Goel D; Kim M; Li G; Li Y; Doss R; Xue M; Li B; Camtepe S; Zhu L, 2025, 'CAMP in the Odyssey: Provably Robust Reinforcement Learning with Certified Radius Maximization', in Proceedings of the 34th Usenix Security Symposium, pp. 7213 - 7232

Xu X; Zhang D; Zhang W; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'Design Process for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa C 2025, pp. 482 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00072

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J; Zhang C, 2025, 'Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Foundation Models: A Survey', in Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10779 - 10787, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1196

Tan X; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Yuan X; Zhu L; Zhang W, 2025, 'HydraRAG: Structured Cross-Source Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning', in Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 14431 - 14459, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.730

Hu Y; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Fu Q; Zhang W; Zhu L, 2025, 'MMAPG: A Training-Free Framework for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering via Adaptive Planning Graphs', in Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 14184 - 14200, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.717

Zhao D; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2025, 'SeeAction: Towards Reverse Engineering How-What-Where of HCI Actions from Screencasts for UI Automation', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 463 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00144

Shamsujjoha M; Lu Q; Zhao D; Zhu L, 2025, 'Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Multi-Layered Guardrails of Foundation Model Based Agents', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa 2025, pp. 37 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA65012.2025.00014

Song W; Sui Y; Xing Z; Zhu L; Xue J, 2025, 'ViDToken: A Video-Transformer-Based Latent Token Defense for Adversarial Video Detection', in Proceedings 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks Intrusions and Defenses Raid 2025, pp. 566 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RAID67961.2025.00012

Yang S; Wang C; Xu X; Zhu L; Yao L, 2024, 'Attacking Visually-aware Recommender Systems with Transferable and Imperceptible Adversarial Styles', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 2900 - 2909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679828

Xia B; Zhang D; Liu Y; Lu Q; Xing Z; Zhu L, 2024, 'Trust in Software Supply Chains: Blockchain-Enabled SBOM and the AIBOM Future', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems and 2024 IEEE ACM 2nd International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Encycris Svm 2024, pp. 12 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3643662.3643957

Hu Z; Wang C; Shu Y; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2024, 'Prompt Perturbation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Language Models', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 1119 - 1130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671932

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J; Zhang C, 2024, 'Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Foundation Models: A Survey', International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10779 - 10787, presented at Proceedings of the Thirty-ThirdInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/1196

Dong L; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, 'A Pilot Study in Surveying Data Challenges of Automatic Software Engineering Tasks', in Sea4dq 2024 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber Physical Systems Internet of Things Co Located with Esec Fse 2024, pp. 6 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3663530.3665020

Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Xing Z, 2024, 'An AI System Evaluation Framework for Advancing AI Safety: Terminology, Taxonomy, Lifecycle Mapping', in Aiware 2024 Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on AI Powered Software Co Located with Esec Fse 2024, pp. 74 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3664646.3664766

Zhang Z; Xing Z; Zhao D; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2024, 'Hard to Read and Understand Pythonic Idioms? Deldiom and Explain Them in Non-Idiomatic Equivalent Code', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2808 - 2819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639101

Sun J; Chen J; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2024, 'Where is it? Tracing the Vulnerability-Relevant Files from Vulnerability Reports', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2469 - 2481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639202

Lu Q; Zhu L; Xu X; Liu Y; Xing Z; Whittle J, 2024, 'A Taxonomy of foundation model based systems through the lens of software architecture', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644956

Zhang D; Xia B; Liu Y; Xu X; Hoang T; Xing Z; Staples M; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, 'Privacy and copyright protection in generative ai: A lifecycle perspective', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 92 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644952

Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Lee SU; Liu Y; Xing Z, 2024, 'Towards a responsible ai metrics catalogue: A collection of metrics for ai accountability', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 100 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644959

Shanmugarasa Y; Chamikara MAP; Paik HY; Kanhere SS; Zhu L, 2024, 'Local Differential Privacy for Smart Meter Data Sharing with Energy Disaggregation', in Proceedings 2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things Dcoss Iot 2024, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS-IoT61029.2024.00012

Lu Q; Zhu L; Xu X; Xing Z; Harrer S; Whittle J, 2024, 'Towards Responsible Generative AI: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model Based Agents', in Proceedings IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Architecture Companion Icsa C 2024, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C63560.2024.00028

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