Staff profile

Dr Jinli Cao

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

BG Building 217, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc HU, PhD, USQ.

Membership of professional associations

ACS member

Area of study

Information Systems

Brief profile

Dr Jinli Cao has been active in areas of information systems inculding Query optimization and  data management in Wireless Senor Networks, Distributed Database Systems,   Web Services and Internet Computing. She has published over 70 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings such as IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Processing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (TSMC) etc. 

Dr Cao has been supervising 6 PhD students in various topics including Keywords search in XML databases, uncertain query optimisation, data quality, Web Services, Cloud computing and data management in Wireless Senor Networks.

Dr Cao has been serving continually for professional research communities. She has served a number of International journals, a special issue and Conferences as the reviewer, the editor and the PC member. 

Research interests

Databases and information system

- Keywords query in XML Databases

- Transaction Management in Cloud Computing

- Uncertain Data Queries

- User-profile based recommendation

Teaching units

CSE4DSS - Decision Support Systems

CSE3DMS - Database Management Systems

CSE4DWD - Data Warehouse Concepts and Design

CSE3ISP - Information System Practices

Recent publications

  • Papers in refereed journals
  1. Khanh Nguyen, Jinli Cao: Top-K data source selection for keyword queries over multiple XML data sources. Journal of Information Science.  38(2): 156-175 (2012). ERA Tier A Journal, 5-year IF=1.860 
  2. Khanh Nguyen, Jinli Cao: Top-k Answers for XML Keyword Queries. World Wide Web (2012). ERA Tier A Journal, 5-year IF = 1.367
  3. G. Huang, Y.Zhang , J. He and J.Cao, Fault Tolerance in Data Gathering Wireless Sensor Networks, The Computer Journal, 2011, Comput. J. 54(6): 976-987 (2011) ERA Tier A* Journal
  4.  Yefei Xin, Zhen He, Jinli Cao: Effective pruning for XML structural match queries. Data Knowl. Eng. 69(6): 640-659 (2010)  5-year IF=1.861
  5. Yanan Hao, Yanchun Zhang, Jinli Cao: Web services discovery and rank: An information retrieval approach. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 26(8): 1053-1062 (2010) ERA Tier A Journal, IF= 2.371
  6. J. Ma, J. Cao & Y. Zhang : Efficiently Supporting Secure and Reliable Collaboration in Scientific Workflows,    Journal of Computer and System Sciences.  Volume 76, Issue 6, September 2010, Pages 475-489 , ERA Tier A* Journal 
  7.  H. Wang, J. Cao and Y. Zhang, Effective collaboration with information sharing in virtual universities" Special Issue e-learning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.  vol. 21/6, pp. 840-853, 2009. ERA Tier A Journal, IF=2.899
  8.  H. Wang, J. Cao and Y. Zhang, Delegating revocations and authorizations in collaborative business environments, Special Issue on Collaborative Business Processes, Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, pp. 293-305, Vol 11, Issues 3, 2009. ERA Tier A, IF=1.596;

     H. Wang, Y. Zhang & J. Cao,  “Access control management for ubiquitous computing”, October, 2008  by The International Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, pp 870-878,  Volume 24, Issue 8,  Publisher: Elsevier. ERA Tier A Journal, IF=2.371

  9.  X. Jia, D. Li, H. Du, and J. Cao, “On Optimal Replication of Data Object at Hierarchical and Transparent Web Proxies”, IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems. pp. 673-685, Vol. 16, No. 8, August 2005.  ERA Tier A* Journal, IF=1.992
  10. H. Wang,   J. Cao, Y. Zhang,  A flexible payment scheme and its role based access control,  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 3,  pp.  425-436, March, 2005. ERA Tier A Journal, IF= 2.899

Conference papers

  1.  Trieu Le and Jinli Cao: Top-k Best Probability Queries on Probabilistic Data, in Proceedings of DASFAA(2) 2012: 1-16. ERA Tier A Conference
  2. D. Liu, Jinli Cao, and Jie. Cao, FEAS: A full-time event aware scheduler for improving responsiveness. In Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2012), 3-9.
  3. Yang, Y. and J. Cao: Feature-based recommendation framework on OLAP . In Proc. Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2012), Melbourne, Australia. 81-88.

    Loan Vo, J. Cao & W, Rahayu, ­Discovering Conditional Functional Dependencies  in XML Data, the Proceedings of 22nd Australasian Database Conference , 16-21- Jan, 2011

  4.  K. Nguyen, J. Cao,  Relevant Answers for XML Keyword Search: A skyline Approach,  the Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2010), 210-224, 2010. ERA Tier A conference ;
  5. M. Tang, J. Cao, X. Jia & K. Liu, “Optimization on Data Object Compression and replication  in Wireless Sensor Networks”,   the Proceedings of Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), LNCS 5463, 2009, pp. 77-91. Brisbane, Australia. ERA Tier A conference 
  6. Y. Hao, J. Cao & Y. Zhang, Efficient IR-Style Search over Web Services, Proc. of The 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE'09, 305-418, ERA Tier A conference
  7. M. Tang, J. Cao & X. Jia, “Efficient Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks: a Data-Driven Approach” in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp. 106-113, 2008. ERA Tier A conference
  8. M. Tang & J. Cao  “An Energy-Efficient Data-Driven Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks” Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks in conjunction with VLDB 2008, August 24, 2008, pp. 21-27 Auckland, NEW ZEALAND.
  9. Y.    Hao, Y.   Zhang  and   J. Cao,  “WSXplorer: Searching for Desired Web Services”, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07),  pp. 173-187, 11-15 June 2007, ERA Tier A conference.
  10. J. Ma, J. Cao and Y. Zhang, “Probabilistic Semantics Approach for Discovering Web Services”, short paper in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2007), May 8-12, 2007, ERA Tier A conference

Research projects

  • Keywords query  in XML Databases
  • Uncertain Data Queries
  • User-profile based recommendation
  • Improving Data Quality on XML Data
  • Transaction Management in Web Services
  • Efficient scheduling in Cloud Computing