Xiaolin (Andy) Li, PhD (pronounced Shaolin Lee) Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Director Scalable Software Systems Laboratory (S3Lab)

Inventions

• US Patent 7603253, "Apparatus and Method for Automatically Improving a Set of Initial Return on Investment Calculator Templates," with Viktors Berstis et al. and IBM, 10/2009.
• US Patent Application 20060005169 (pending), "Software Development System and Method," with Viktors Berstis et al. and IBM, 1/2006. 
• US Patent Application 20080275804 (pending), "Monte Carlo Grid Scheduling Algorithm Selection Optimization," with Viktors Berstis and IBM, 7/2008. 
• Invention disclosure No. 2007.17 with OSU, "S3PAS: A Scalable Shoulder-Surfing Resistant Password Authentication System," with H. Zhao*, 2007.
• Coauthored 3 invention disclosures with IBM on self-learning strategies, user interface, and data analysis, with Viktors Berstis et al., 2003.

Selected Recent Publications

1. M. Parashar and X. Li (Eds.), "Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Applications," John Wiley & Sons, 2009. [Google Books][Wiley Book][Cover][Content][Contributors][Amazon]
2. Xinxin Liu*, Li Yu*, Di Wang*, and Xiaolin Li, "MagicLink: Weaving Multi-Site Wireless Sensor Networks for Large-Scale Experiments," (accepted) the 8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2012).
3. H. Zhao*, M. Pan*, X. Liu*, X. Li, and Y. Fang, "Optimal Resource Rental Planning for Elastic Applications in Cloud Market," (accepted) the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012). (Acceptance: 118/569 ~= 21%)
4. X. Liu*, H. Zhao*, M. Pan*, H. Yue*, X. Li, and Y. Fang, "Traffic-Aware Multiple Mix Zone Placement for Protecting Location Privacy," (accepted) The 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012) (Acceptance: 278/1574 ~= 18%).
5. X. Liu*, H. Zhao*, X. Yang*, X. Li, "SinkTrail: A Proactive Data Reporting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," (in press) IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2011.
6. H. Zhao* and X. Li, "VectorTrust: Trust Vector Aggregation Scheme for Trust Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks," (in press) The Journal of Supercomputing, 2011.
7. X. Liu*, H. Zhao*, X. Yang*, X. Li, and N. Wang, "Trailing Mobile Sinks: A Proactive Data Reporting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010). (Acceptance: 51/185 ~= 27%) [PDF]
8. H. Zhao*, X. Yang*, and X. Li, "cTrust: Trust Aggregation in Cyclic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,"the 16th International European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2010). (Acceptance: 90/256 ~= 35%) [PDF]
9. H. Zhao*, X. Liu*, and X. Li, "Hypergraph-based Task-Bundle Scheduling Towards Efficiency and Fairness in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems," the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010). (Acceptance: 127/527 ~= 24%) [PDF]
10. X. Li and B. Veeravalli, "PPDD: Scheduling Multi-Site Divisible Loads in Single-Level Tree Networks," (in press) Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications (CC), Springer. [PDF]
11. H. Zhao* and X. Li, "Efficient Grid Task-Bundle Allocation Using Bargaining Based Self-Adaptive Auction," The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai, China, 2009. (Acceptance: 57/271 ~= 21%) [PDF]
12. H. Zhao* and X. Li, "H-Trust: A Group Trust Management System for Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grid," Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST),  SpringerSpringer, Vol. 24 (5), 2009. [PDF]
13. X. Li, X. Liu*, H. Zhao*, H. Zhao*, N. Jiang, and M. Parashar, "ASGrid: Autonomic Management of Hybrid Sensor Grid Systems and Applications," International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Inderscience, Vol. 6 (2/3), 2009. [PDF]
14. X. Li and M. Parashar, "GridMate: A Portable Simulation Environment for Large-Scale Adaptive Scientific Applications," The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, 2008. (Acceptance: 65/201 ~= 32%) [PDF]
15. X. Li, H. Kang*, and J. Cao, "Coordinated Workload Scheduling in Hierarchical Sensor Networks for Data Fusion Applications," The 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Pisa, Italy, 2007. (Acceptance: 67/265~=25%) [PDF]
16. X. Li and M. Parashar, "Hybrid Runtime Management of Space-Time Heterogeneity for Parallel Structured Adaptive Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 18 (9), Sep. 2007. [PDF]
17. H. Zhao* and X. Li, "S3PAS: A Scalable Shoulder-Surfing Resistant Textual-Graphical Password Authentication System," The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe), Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007. [PDF] (Best Paper Award)
18. S. Chandra, X. Li, T. Saif and M. Parashar, "Enabling Scalable Parallel Implementations of Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications", The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 39 (2), Feb. 2007. [PDF]
19. X. Li and M. Parashar, "Using Clustering to Address the Heterogeneity and Dynamism in Parallel SAMR Application", 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3769, Goa, India, pp. 247-257, Dec. 2005. (Acceptance: 50/362~=14%) [PDF]

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M. Parashar and X. Li (Eds.), "Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Applications," John Wiley & Sons, 2009. [Google Books][Wiley Book][Cover][Content][Contributors][Amazon]

(* indicates student supervision.)