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Conference Papers

Zhu L; Jeffery R; Staples M; Huo M; Tran TT, 2007, 'Effects of architecture and technical development process on micro-process', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 49 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72426-1_5

Nonaka M; Zhu L; Babar MA; Staples M, 2007, 'Impacts of Architecture and Quality Investment in Software Product Line Development', Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 63 - 73, presented at 11th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2007), http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/spline.2007.35

Liu Y; Zhu L; Gorton I, 2007, 'Performance assessment for e-government services: An experience report', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 74 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73551-9_6

Liu Y; Gorton I; Zhu L, 2007, 'Performance prediction of service-oriented applications based on an enterprise service bus', in Proceedings International Computer Software and Applications Conference, pp. 327 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.166

Nonaka M; Zhu L; Babar MA; Staples M, 2007, 'Project cost overrun simulation in software product line development', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 330 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73460-4_29

Nonaka M; Liming Z; Babar MA; Staples M, 2007, 'Project delay variability simulation in software product line development', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 283 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72426-1_24

Zhu L; Staples M; Jeffery R, 2007, 'Reference architecture for lending industry in ULS systems', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ULS.2007.6

Zhu L; Gorton I; Liu Y; Bui BN, 2006, 'Model-driven benchmark generation for web services', in 2006 international worskhop on service-oriented software engineering, Shanghai, China, presented at International Software Process Workshop and International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling, SPW/ProSim 2006, Shanghai, China, 20 May 2006 - 21 May 2006

Zhu L; Gorton I; Bui BN; Liu Y, 2005, 'Customized benchmark generation using MDA', in 5th working IEEE/IFIP conference on software architecture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presented at 5th working IEEE/IFIP conference on software architecture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 06 November 2005 - 10 November 2005

Gorton I; Zhu L, 2005, 'Tool support for just-in-time architecture reconstruction and evaluation: an experience report', in 27th international conference on software engineering (ICSE 2005), St Louis, Missouri, USA, presented at 27th international conference on software engineering (ICSE 2005), St Louis, Missouri, USA, 15 May 2005 - 21 May 2005

Zhu L; Liu Y; Gorton I; Bui NB, 2005, 'MDAbench: A Tool for Customized Benchmark Generation Using MDA', in Proceedings of the Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications OOPSLA, pp. 171 - 1725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1094855.1094919

Gorton I; Zhu L, 2005, 'Tool support for just-in-time architecture reconstruction and evaluation', Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 514 - 523, presented at Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '05, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1062455.1062548

Kitchenham B; Zhu L; Jeffery DR; Ali Babar M, 2004, 'An Exploratory Study of Groupware Support for Distributed Software Architecture Evaluation Process', in 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Busan, South Korea, presented at 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Busan, South Korea, 30 November 2004 - 03 December 2004

Huo M; Verner JM; Zhu L; Ali Babar M, 2004, 'Software Quality and Agile Methods', in COMPSAC 04, Hong Kong, presented at COMPSAC 04, Hong Kong, 28 September 2004 - 30 September 2004

Zhu L; Ali Babar M; Jeffery DR, 2004, 'Mining Patterns to Support Software Architecture Evaluation', in 4th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2004), Oslo, Norway, presented at 4th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2004), Oslo, Norway, 12 June 2004 - 15 June 2004

Zhu L; Ali Babar M; Jeffery DR, 2004, 'Distilling Scenarios from Patterns for Software Architecture Evaluation', in 1st European Workshop on Software Architecture (EWSA 2004), St Andrews, Scotland, presented at 1st European Workshop on Software Architecture (EWSA 2004), St Andrews, Scotland, 21 May 2004 - 22 May 2004

Ali Babar M; Zhu L; Jeffery DR, 2004, 'A Framework for Classifying and Comparing Software Architecture Evaluation Methods', in Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004), Melbourne, presented at Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004), Melbourne, 13 April 2004 - 16 April 2004

Huo M; Verner J; Zhu L; Babar MA, 2004, 'Software Quality and Agile Methods', Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1 - 6, presented at Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2004. COMPSAC 2004., http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cmpsac.2004.1342889

Zhu L; Wainwright RL; Schoenefeld DA, 1998, 'Genetic algorithm for the point to multipoint routing problem with varying number of requests', in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation ICEC, pp. 171 - 176

Conference Abstracts

Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L; Grundy J, 2023, 'Message from the SE4RAI 2022 Chairs: SE4RAI 2022', in Proceedings Workshop on Software Engineering for Responsible AI Se4rai 2022, pp. VII

Preprints

Zhou J; Lu Q; Chen J; Zhu L; Xu X; Xing Z; Harrer S, 2026, A Taxonomy of Architecture Options for Foundation Model-based Agents: Analysis and Decision Model, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.02920

Chen J; Wang Z; Sun J; Xing Z; Lu Q; Huang Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2026, From Exploration to Revelation: Detecting Dark Patterns in Mobile Apps, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.18084

Klymenko MV; Hoang T; Nguyen H; Wilkinson SA; Goldozian B; Zhenchang X; Lu Q; Usman M; Zhu L, 2026, QUT: A Unit Testing Framework for Quantum Subroutines, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.17538

Lee SU; Zhu L; Shamsujjoha M; Dong L; Lu Q; Chen J; Briand L, 2026, A Structured Approach to Safety Case Construction for AI Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2601.22773

Zhou G; Han Z; Chen S; Huang B; Zhu L; Liu T; Yao L; Zhang K, 2026, HCVP: Leveraging Hierarchical Contrastive Visual Prompt for Domain Generalization, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.09716

Weytjens H; Xu X; Zhang D; Lu Q; Weber I; Zhu L, 2026, RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7353461

Lu Q; Zhao D; Liu Y; Zhang H; Zhu L; Xu X; Shi A; Tan T; Kazman R, 2025, AgentArcEval: An Architecture Evaluation Method for Foundation Model based Agents, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.21031

Yang S; Hu Z; Li X; Wang C; Yu T; Xu X; Zhu L; Yao L, 2025, DrunkAgent: Stealthy Memory Corruption in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.23804

Klymenko M; Hoang T; Wilkinson SA; Goldozian B; Ma S; Xu X; Lu Q; Usman M; Zhu L, 2025, Context-Aware Unit Testing for Quantum Subroutines, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2506.10348

Xu X; Weytjens H; Zhang D; Lu Q; Weber I; Zhu L, 2025, RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2506.03401

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J; Zhang C, 2025, Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Foundation Models: A Survey, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.13502

Bano M; Zowghi D; Whittle J; Zhu L; Reeson A; Martin R; Parsons J, 2025, A Qualitative Study of User Perception of M365 AI Copilot, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.17661

Zhou G; Xie S; Hao G-Y; Chen S; Huang B; Xu X; Wang C; Zhu L; Yao L; Zhang K, 2025, Emerging Synergies in Causality and Deep Generative Models: A Survey, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2301.12351

Tao Z; Pan S; Xing Z; Sun X; Haggag O; Grundy J; Li J; Zhu L, 2025, Privacy Bills of Materials: A Transparent Privacy Information Inventory for Collaborative Privacy Notice Generation in Mobile App Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2501.01131

Xu X; Pautasso C; Lo SK; Zhu L; Lu Q; Weber I, 2025, An Extended Pattern Collection for Blockchain-based Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2502.16017

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.02205

Lee SU; Perera H; Liu Y; Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Salvado O; Whittle J, 2025, Responsible AI Question Bank: A Comprehensive Tool for AI Risk Assessment, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.11820

Klymenko M; Hoang T; Xu X; Xing Z; Usman M; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, Architectural Patterns for Designing Quantum Artificial Intelligence Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.10487

Yuan M; Chen J; Xing Z; Quigley A; Luo Y; Luo T; Mohammadi G; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, DesignRepair: Dual-Stream Design Guideline-Aware Frontend Repair with Large Language Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.01606

Bano M; Zowghi D; Whittle J; Zhu L; Reeson A; Martin R; Parsons J, 2024, Survey Insights on M365 Copilot Adoption, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2412.16162

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.18252

Liu Y; Lo SK; Lu Q; Zhu L; Zhao D; Xu X; Harrer S; Whittle J, 2024, Agent Design Pattern Catalogue: A Collection of Architectural Patterns for Foundation Model based Agents, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.10467

Perera H; Lee SU; Liu Y; Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Cairns J; Nottage M, 2024, Achieving Responsible AI through ESG: Insights and Recommendations from Industry Engagement, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2409.10520

Lee SU; Perera H; Liu Y; Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Cairns J; Nottage M, 2024, Integrating ESG and AI: A Comprehensive Responsible AI Assessment Framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.00965

Hu Z; Wang C; Shu Y; Helen ; Paik ; Zhu L, 2024, Prompt Perturbation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Language Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2402.07179

Hu Z; Wang C; Helen ; Paik ; Shu Y; Zhu L, 2024, Learning Interpretable Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.19131

Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Xing Z, 2024, An AI System Evaluation Framework for Advancing AI Safety: Terminology, Taxonomy, Lifecycle Mapping, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2404.05388

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.13148

Liu Y; Lu Q; Zhu L; Paik H-Y, 2024, Decentralised Governance-Driven Architecture for Designing Foundation Model based Systems: Exploring the Role of Blockchain in Responsible AI, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2308.05962

Zhang D; Pan S; Hoang T; Xing Z; Staples M; Xu X; Yao L; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, To Be Forgotten or To Be Fair: Unveiling Fairness Implications of Machine Unlearning Methods, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2302.03350


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