Liang-Jie Zhang

Liang-Jie (L. J.) Zhang is Senior Vice President, Chief Scientist, & Director of Research at Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, and director of The Open Group. Prior to joining Kingdee, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Zhang has published more than 140 technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has 40 granted patents and more than 20 pending patent applications. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University in 1996. He chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing since 2003. He also chaired the Services Computing Professional Interest Community at IBM Research from 2004 to 2006. He was the lead IBM researcher on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, web services, and interactive media systems. Dr. Zhang has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research since 2003 and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2011, and in the same year won the IEEE Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing". Dr. Zhang also chaired the 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010) and its sister conferences.

Publications

Innovative Solutions and Applications of Web Services Technology
Innovative Solutions and Applications of Web Services Technology
Liang-Jie Zhang, Yishuang Ning. © 2019. 316 pages.
With the development of Web 2.0 technologies, the internet has become a huge platform for information and data sharing. As such, web services provide an important foundation for...
Technical Architecture of Enabling Body of Knowledge System for Effective Learning and Information Dissemination
Technical Architecture of Enabling Body of Knowledge System for Effective Learning and Information Dissemination
Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang. © 2013. 22 pages.
In the current era of knowledge explosion, many fields are witnessing a tremendous amount of research and practice reported on a regular basis. How to help people effectively and...
Service Oriented Solution Modeling and Variation Propagation Analysis Based on Architectural Building Blocks
Service Oriented Solution Modeling and Variation Propagation Analysis Based on Architectural Building Blocks
Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang. © 2013. 23 pages.
In spite of the widely recognized benefits of applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to design enterprise-scale software systems, its actual application practice is not...
Web Services Research for Emerging Applications: Discoveries and Trends
Web Services Research for Emerging Applications: Discoveries and Trends
Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2010. 720 pages.
As Web technology evolves and adopts new uses and applications, the creation and proliferation of Web services continues to be an increasingly important issue for study and...
SOA Reference Architecture
SOA Reference Architecture
Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang. © 2010. 15 pages.
SOA Reference Architecture (SOA-RA) aims to provide a normative guidance for software engineers to design and develop enterprise-level Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based...
A Similarity Measure for Process Mining in Service Oriented Architecture
A Similarity Measure for Process Mining in Service Oriented Architecture
Joonsoo Bae, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Liang-Jie Zhang, Hyerim Bae. © 2010. 17 pages.
Business processes continue to play an important role in today’s service-oriented enterprise computing systems. Mining, discovering, and integrating process-oriented services has...
Web Services Research and Practices
Web Services Research and Practices
Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2008. 358 pages.
Web services is rapidly becoming one of the most valued aspects of information technology services, as Web-based technological advancements continue to grow at an exponential...
A Framework Supporting Context-Aware Multimedia Web Services Delivery
A Framework Supporting Context-Aware Multimedia Web Services Delivery
Jia Zhang, Liang-Jie Zhang, Francis Quek, Jen-Yao Chung. © 2008. 25 pages.
As Web services become more and more popular, how to manage multimedia Web services provisioning and delivery remains challenging. This chapter presents a componentization model...
An SLA-Based Auction Pricing Method Supporting Web Services Provisioning
An SLA-Based Auction Pricing Method Supporting Web Services Provisioning
Jia Zhang, Ning Zhang, Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2008. 36 pages.
Applying auctions to Web services selection and invocation calls for examination due to the unique features of Web services, such as interoperable machine-to-machine interactions...
Modern Technologies in Web Services Research
Modern Technologies in Web Services Research
Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2007. 284 pages.
Web service technologies are constantly being recreated, continuously challenging Web service professionals and examiners. Modern Technologies in Web Services Research...
Development of Distance Measures for Process Mining, Discovery and Integration
Development of Distance Measures for Process Mining, Discovery and Integration
Joonsoo Bae, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Liang-Jie Zhang, Hyerim Bae. © 2007. 17 pages.
Business processes continue to play an important role in today’s service-oriented enterprise computing systems. Mining, discovering, and integrating process-oriented services has...
Challenges and Opportunities for Web Services Research
Challenges and Opportunities for Web Services Research
Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2007. 8 pages.
Web services are becoming a major research topic for computer scientists, engineers and business consulting professionals. In this preface, I would like to outline the challenges...
Auction-Based Pricing Model for Web Service Providers
Auction-Based Pricing Model for Web Service Providers
Jia Zhang, Ning Zhang, Liang-Jie Zhang. © 2006. 26 pages.
Applying auctions to Web services selection and invocation calls for examination due to the unique features of Web services, such as interoperable machine-to machine interactions...
A Service-Oriented Multimedia Componentization Model
A Service-Oriented Multimedia Componentization Model
Jia Zhang, Liang-Jie Zhang, Francis Quek, Jen-Yao Chung. © 2005. 23 pages.
As Web services become more and more popular, how to manage multimedia Web services that can be composed as value-added service solutions remains challenging. This paper presents...
Advances in Web Services Research
Advances in Web Services Research
Liang-Jie Zhang. 2005.
The Advances in Web Services Research (AWSR) Book Series features only the latest research findings and industry solutions dealing with all aspects of Web services technology....
International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR)
International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR)
Liang-Jie Zhang, Chia-Wen Tsai. Est. 2004.
The International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) is the first refereed, international publication featuring the latest research findings and industry solutions...
Building Adaptive E-Business Infrastructure for Intelligent Enterprises
Building Adaptive E-Business Infrastructure for Intelligent Enterprises
Liang-Jie Zhang, Jen-Yao Chung. © 2004. 14 pages.
With the advancement of information technology and business transformation, an enterprise has to be adaptive to expand its infrastructure and collaborate with its internal and...