Jie Liu's Publications:

Journals, Magazines, and Book Chapters:

  1. Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs." IEEE Computer Magazine, 40(7), pp. 90-93, July, 2007.

  2. Jie Liu, Patrick Cheung, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, "Apply Geometric Duality to Energy Efficient Non-Local Phenomenon Awareness Using Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine 11(6) pp.62-68, 2004. Special issue on Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Systems.

  3. Jie Liu, Maurice Chu, Juan Liu, James Reich, and Feng Zhao, “State-Centric Programming for Sensor-Actuator Network Systems.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, October, 2003, pp.50-62.

  4. Juan Liu, Jie Liu, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed Group Management for Track Initiation and Maintenance in Target Localization Applications,” in Telecommunication Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

  5. Jie Liu, Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Actor-Oriented Control System Design: A Responsible Framework Perspective” in IEEE Trans. on Control System Technology, vol. 12, No. 2, March 2004, pp. 250-262.

  6. Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Juan Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and James Reich, “Collaborative Signal and Information Processing: An Information Directed Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91. No. 8, August, 2003, pp. 1199-1209.

  7. Xiaojun Liu, Jie Liu, Edward A. Lee, and Johan Eker, “Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems,” in Tariq Samad and Gary Balas (eds.), Software Enabled Control :Information Technology for Dynamical Systems, Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2003

  8. Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “Timed Multitasking for Real-Time Embedded Software,” IEEE Control Systems, special issue on Software-Enabled Control, vol. 23, no. 1, January, 2003, pp 65-75.

  9. Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Jozsef Ludvig, Stephen Neuendorffer, Sonia Sachs, and Yuhong Xiong, “Taming Hetero­geneity—the Ptolemy Approach,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 1, January, 2003, pp. 127-144.

  10. Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “A Component-Based Approach to Modeling and Simulating Mixed-Signal and Hybrid Systems,” ACM Trans. on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 12, No. 4, October, 2002, pp. 343-368.

  11. Jie Liu, Bicheng Wu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Interoperation of Heterogeneous CAD Tools in Ptolemy II,” Journal of Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pages 1-10, 2001.

Conference Papers:

  1. Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Feng Zhao, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Qiang Wang, and Sean James, "Towards Discovering Data Center Genome Using Sensor Nets," HotEmNets 2008
  2. Michel Goraczko, Jie Liu, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Slobodan Matic, Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, " Energy-Optimal Software Partitioning in Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Embedded Systems," The 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2008), Anaheim, CA, June, 2008
  3. Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, "Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services" 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI 2008), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
  4. Yang Zhao, Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee. " A Programming Model for Time-Synchronized Distributed Real-Time Systems", 13th IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium. RTAS'07, 259 - 268, April, 2007, Bellevue, WA.

  5. Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide," First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web: Mobile Device Centric Sensory Networks and Applications (WSW'2006), Boulder CO, Oct 31, 2006.

  6. Zoe Abrams and Jie Liu, "Greedy is Good: On Service Tree Placement for In-Network Stream Processing." Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006.

  7. Zoe Abrams, Ho-Lin Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "Kinetically Stable Task Assignment for Networks of Microservers," 2006 Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006), Nashville, TN, April, 2006.

  8. Alec Woo, Siddharth Seth, Tim Olson, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "A Spreadsheet Approach to Programming and Managing Sensor Networks," 2006 Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) SPOTS track, Nashville, TN, April, 2006.

  9. Kamin Whitehouse, Feng Zhao, and Jie Liu, "Semantic Streams: A Framework for Composable Semantic Interpretation of Sensor Data ". The Third European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Zurich, Switzerland. February 13-15, 2006.

  10. Siddharth Seth, Alec Woo, Tim Olson, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "Demo Abstract: A Spreadsheet Toolkit for Streaming Sensor Data," demo in The 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005), San Diego, CA, Nov. 2-4, 2005.

  11. Jie Liu and Feng Zhao, "Towards Semantic Services for Sensor-Rich Information Systems, " in Second IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (Basenets 2005), Boston, MA, Oct. 3, 2005.
  12. Jie Liu, Elaine Cheong, and Feng Zhao, "Semantics-Based Optimization Across Uncoordinated Tasks in Networked Embedded Systems," in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2005), Jersey City, New Jersey, September 18-22, 2005.

  13. Elaine Cheong and Jie Liu, "galsC: A Language for Event-Driven Embedded Systems," Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE2005), March 7-11, Munich, Germany.
  14. Qing Fang, Jie Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, “RoamHBA: Maintaining Group Connectivity in Sensor Networks,” the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’04), Berkeley, CA, April, 2004. 

  15. Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Jie Liu, Jim Reich, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed State Representation for Tracking Problems in Sensor Networks,” the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’04), Berkeley, CA, April, 2004. 

  16. Xue Yang, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, and Nitin Vaidya, “A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Improving Road Safety,” the 1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2004), Boston, MA, Aug. 22-26, 2004.

  17. Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “On the Causality of Mixed-Signal and Hybrid Models,” The 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC’03), Prague, Czech, April, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS2623), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 328 - 342 .

  18. Juan Liu, Jie Liu, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed Group Management for Track Initiation and Maintenance in Target Localization Applications,” The 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’03), Palo Alto, CA, April 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2634), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 113-128.

  19. Elaine Cheong, Judy Liebman, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, “TinyGALS: A Pro­gramming Model for Event-Driven Embedded Systems”, The 18th ACM Sym­posium on Applied Computing (SAC’03), Melbourne, FL, March, 2003, pp. 698-704.

  20. Twan Basten, Luca Benini, Anantha Chandrakasan, Menno Lindwer, Jie Liu, Rex Min, and Feng Zhao, “Scaling into Ambient Intelligence,” The 6th Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’03), Munich, Germany, March 2003, pp. 76-83.

  21. Jie Liu, Patrick Cheung, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, “A Dual-Space Approach to Tracking and Sensor Management in Wireless Sensor Networks,” The 1st ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Appli­cations (WSNA 2002), Atlanta, GA, Sept. 28, 2002, pp. 131-139.

  22. Jie Liu, Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, and Edward A. Lee, “Realistic Simulation of Embedded Control Systems,” The 15th IFAC World Congress (IFAC'02), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2002.

  23. Johan Eker, Chamberlain Fong, Jorn W. Janneck, and Jie Liu, “Design and Simulation of Heterogeneous Control Systems using Ptolemy II,” Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control (NTCC’01), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2001.

  24. Jie Liu, Stanley Jefferson, and Edward A. Lee, “Motivating Hierarchical Run-Time Models for Measurement and Control Systems,” 2001 American Control Conference (ACC’01), Arlington, VA, June 2001.

  25. Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Modeling Distributed Hybrid Sys­tems in Ptolemy II,” invited tutorial, 2001 American Control Conference (ACC’01), Arlington, VA, June 2001.

  26. Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “Component-based Hierarchical Modeling of Systems with Continuous and Discrete Dynamics," 2000 IEEE Symposium on     Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD’00), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September, 2000, pp 95-100.

  27. Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, T. John Koo, Bruno Sinopoli, Shankar Sastry, and Edward A. Lee, “A Hierarchical Hybrid System Model and Its Simulation,” 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’99), Phoenix, Arizona, December 1999. pp. 3508-3513.

  28. Jie Liu, Bicheng Wu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Interoperation of Heterogeneous CAD Tools in Ptolemy II,” in Symposium on Design, Test, and Microfabrication of MEMS/MOEMs, March 1999, Paris, France. pp. 249-258.

  29. Jie Liu, Marcello Lajolo, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “Software Timing Analysis Using HW/SW Cosimulation and Instruction Set Simulator,” Proc. of the Sixth International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign (CODES/CASHE '98), pp. 65-70, March 1998.

  30. Jie Liu and Deyun Xiao, “Design and Implementation of An Intelligent Fault Diagnose Platform,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 250-254, Beijing, China, Oct. 1996.

  31. Jie Liu and Deyun Xiao, “Design of An Architecture for Real-Time Fault Pre­diction Expert Systems,” The 8th Chinese Conference on Decision and Con­trol, pp. 1004-1008, Jinan, China, May 1996.

Thesis and Selected Technical Reports

  1.       Jie Liu, Responsible Frameworks for Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Embedded Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M01/41, University of California, Berkeley, Dec. 2001.

  2.       Jie Liu, Continuous Time and Mixed-Signal Simulation in Ptolemy II, Master thesis, UCB/ ERL Memorandum No. M98/74, Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, Dec. 1998.

  3.       Adam Cataldo, Christopher Hylands, Edward A. Lee, Jiu Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Steve Neuendorffer, Haiyang Zheng “HyVisual: A Hybrid System Visual Modeler,” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M03/30, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, July 17, 2003.

  4.       C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java,(Volume 1:Introduction to Ptolemy II),” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M03/27, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

  5.       C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng, (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture),” TechnicalMemorandum UCB/ERL M03/28, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

  6.       C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 3: Ptolemy II Domains),” TechnicalMemorandum UCB/ERL M03/29, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

  7.       Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Elaine Cheong, John Davis II, Mudit Goel, Christo­pher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, John Reekie, Neil Smyth, Jeff Tsay, Brian Vogel, Winthrop Williams, Yuhong Xiong, Haiyang Zheng, “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java,” Memorandum UCB/ERL M02/23, Univer­sity of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, August 5, 2002.

  8.       John Davis II, Christopher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, Jeff Tsay, Brian Vogel, and Yuhong Xiong, “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java,” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M01/12, EECS, University of California, Berkeley, March 15, 2001.

  9.       John Davis II, Mudit Goel, Christopher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, John Reekie, Neil Smyth, Jeff Tsay and Yuhong Xiong, “Overview of the Ptolemy Project,” UCB/ERL Memorandum No. M99/37, Dept. of EECS, University of Califor­nia, Berkeley, CA 94720, July 1999

  10.   Jie Liu, “Fault Prognostics Software Kit,” master report with honor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996.

More technical reports can be found at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu