Research Interests

  • Transaction Management in Multidatabase Systems.
  • Concurrency Control Algorithms 
  • Query Optimization & Processing in Multidatabase Systems.
  • Distributed Database Management Systems.
  • Workflow Management.
  • E-commerce & Electronic Payment systems
  • Web-Services and Transaction support
  • Mobile Database Management

·         Distance Learning Technologies   -- the member of the Editorial Reviewer Board:

o        International Journal of Distance Education Technologies 

        Published by Idea Group Publishing, USA 

Research Projects & Grants:

 

·         Faculty Block Infrastructure Grant, $1900, 2006 and $6579, 2003  Faculty of Science Technology and Engineering, LTU

·         Earlier Career Research grant, $2500, 1999-2000, University of Southern QLD

 

  PROJECTS:

·         Hybrid Data Allocation Scheme for Mobile Database management

·         Web Services transaction management

·         Web document replication update propagations

·         Service-oriented computing

·         Data warehousing and OLAP processing

·         Data management in sensor network environment

·         XML database managment

List of Recent Publications

Journal papers:

1.        Bilal Choudry, P. Bertok and J. Cao, “Cost based web services transactions management”, The International Journal Web and Grid Services, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006, page 198-220. Inderscience Publishers, (www.inderscience.com).

2.    Jingyu Hou and Jinli Cao, “Matrix Model for Web Page Community Construction” International Journal of Science and Research (2005).Vol. 1 (1), Page 21-30, Oct, 2005.

3.      Xiaohua Jia, Deying Li, H. Du, and J. Cao, “On Optimal Replication of Data Object at Hierarchical and Transparent Web Proxies”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Page 673-685, Vol. 16, No. 8, August 2005.

4.      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,  pages:  425-436, March, 2005.

 

5.      H. Wang,   Y. Zhang,  J. Cao, V. Varadharajan, Achieving Secure and Flexible M-Services Through Tickets,  Editors B.Benatallah and Z. Maamar,  IEEE Transactions Special issue on M-Services. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.  Part A, Vol. 33, Issue: 6, pages: 697- 708, Nov. 2003.

6.      H. Wang,   J. Cao,  Y. Zhang, X. Huang,  A flexible electronic payment scheme and its management,  Information, Vol. 7,  pages: 187-196,  No. 2,  2004.

7.      H. Wang,   Y. Zhang,  J. Cao, Y.  Kambayahsi, A global ticket-based access scheme for mobile users, special issue on Object-Oriented Client/Server Internet Environments,   Information Systems Frontiers,   Volume 6, Number 1, 2004,  p35-46, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

8.      H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang, An Electronic Payment Scheme and Its RBAC management, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application Journal, Vol 12, No3, page 247-257,  Sep. 2004, p247-257.

9.    J. Hou, Y. Zhang, J. Cao, W. Lai and D. Ross,  Visual Support for Information Retrieval based on Linear Algebra, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Vol. 3, No.2, 2002, http://www.unipi.gr/jass/v3n22002b.htm; Cambridge  International Science Publishing.

10.  C. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Cao and X. Lin, "Incremental Support of Global Update in OzGateway - a Cooperative Database System",   Special Issue of Informatica &  International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Vol. 24 No. 1, March, 2000, Pg. 27-31, ISBN 0350-5596.

11.   X. Zhou, X. Lin, C. Liu and J. Cao, Spatial Query Processing Using Generalized Filter, in International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol . 9, Nos. 1 & 2 (2000), Page 77-91. World Scientific Publishing Company.

Referenced International conferences:

12.    MingJian Tang, Jinli Cao, “A dynamic mechanism for handling mobile computing environmental changes”, the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006), ACM   Society, 29 May - 02 June, 2006, Hong Kong. pp. 1-9. 

13.  Wang, H., Zhang, Y., and Cao, J. (2006), "Ubiquitous Computing Environments and Its Usage Access Control." The First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, InfoScale 2006, Hong Kong, pp. 1-9.

14.  H. Wang,  J. Cao and L. Sun,  “Role-based delegation with negative authorization", The Eighth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB06),  LNCS, , Harbin, China, Jan , 2006.

15.  Rena Logothetis  and Jinli Cao “Web Services Oriented Transactions Using Partial dependency”, IEEE ITI 3rd International Conference on Information & Communications Technology (ICICT 2005), p619-632, Dec 5-6, 2005.

16.  Bilal Choudry, P. Bertok and J. Cao, “A cost based coordination model for long running transactions in Web services”, The Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (IIWAS2005), page 97-108,  19-21 September 2005, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

17.  J. Cao, L. Sun & H. Wang ,  “Towards secure XML document with usage control", The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB05),  LNCS 3399, Page 296-307, ShangHai, China, March29-April 2, 2005.

18.  H. Wang,   L. Sun, Y. Zhang,  J. Cao,  “Authorization Algorithms  for  the Mobility of User-Role Relationship" in the Proceedings of  the 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference-2005, page 69-77, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, January 31 - February 3, 2005

19.   J.  Hou, J. Cao, “Mining More Gold from Web Page Hyperlinks”, The Proceedings of  the Sixth International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2004) ,  page 283-292, 27-29 September 2004, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

20.  H. Wang, J. Cao and Y. Zhang,   Identifying Role-Based Access Constraints With Object Constraint Language, LNCS,3007:  The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference,  page 687-696, Hangzhou, China, April 14-17, 2004.

21.  H. Wang, L. Sun, Y. Zhang and  J. Cao,  Anonymous access scheme for electronic services,   Proceedings of the  Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer  Science Conference (ACSC2004), Australian Computer Society, Vol. 26, pages: 296-305.  Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004.

22.  H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang , A flexible payment scheme and its permission-role assignment,  in the Proceedings of Twenty-Fifth Australasian Computer  Science Conference (ACSC2003),  pages: 189-198, Adelaide, Australia.

23.  H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang, Formal authorization approaches for permission-role assignment using relational algebra operations, in the Proceedings of 14th Australasian Database Conference, page 125-134, Feb. 2-7, 2003, Adelaide, Australia.

24.   J. Hou, Y. Zhang and J.Cao, Web Page Clustering: A Hyperlink-Based Similarity and Matrix-Based Hierarchical Algorithms, , Web Technologies and Applications, 5th Asian-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2003, Xian, China, April 23-25, 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2642,Page201-212, Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-02354-2 .

 

25.  H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang, A Flexible Payment Scheme and Its User-role Assignment,  in book “Cooperative Internet Computing”, Editor Alvin Chan, published by Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dec. 2002.

26.  H.Wang, J.Cao & Y.Kambayashi,  Building Consumer Self-anonymity Scalable Payment Protocol for Internet Purchases  in the Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE-2EC'2002),  page 159-168, San Jose, USA.

27.  H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang, Formal Authorization Allocation Approaches for Role-Based Access Control Based on Relational Algebra Operations, 3nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2002), page 301-310, Dec. 3-6, 2002, Singapore. 

 

28.H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang, A Flexible Payment Scheme and Its Role-based User-role Assignment, Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002), page 58-68, August 18-19, 2002, Hong Kong.

 

29.J. Cao, L. Wang and X. Jia, Minimize Execution Time of Distributed Transactions on Heterogeneous Databases, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Networks, Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (NPDPA02), pg229-234, Oct 1-4, 2002, Tsukuba, Japan. ISBN:0889863660.

 

30.  H. Wang, J. Cao, Y. Zhang,  Ticket-Based Service Access Scheme for Mobile Users,  Twenty-Fifth Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2002), Page 285-292, Jan. 28-Feb. 2,  Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria.

31.   J. Cao and Marian M. Orlowski,  On Performance of Cooperative Transactions in Multidatabase Systems. in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS XVI), page 120-127, Turkey, 5-8 Nov,2001. 

32.  H.Wang, J.Cao, & Y.Zhang,  A Consumer Anonymity Scalable Payment Scheme with Role Bases Access Control, in the Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2001), page 53-62, 3-6 December 2001, Kyoto, Japan.

33.  J. Hou, Y. Zhang, J. Cao & W. Lai, Visual Support for Text Information Retrieval Based on Matrix's Singular Value Decomposition,  in the
Proceedings of The 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2000),  page 333-340,  Hong Kong, 19-20 June 2000.

34.  C. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Cao and X. Lin, Global Transaction management in A Cooperative Database System   Database, Web and Cooperative Systems, Vol. I, Proceedings of 1st international Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems (DWACOS'99), pp.73-78, Baden-Baden, August, 1999.

35.  X. Meng, S. Wang, X. Jia and J. Cao, "Natural Language Query Optimization and Translation in Chinese Database Systems'',
Cooperative databases and Applications '99, Eds. Y. Zhang, M. Rusinkiewicz and Y. Kambayashi, Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications (CODAS'99), Wollongong, March,1999.

36.  J. Cao and Marian M, Orlowski. "The effect  Semijoin Reduction on Query Processing  In Distributed Database Systems"   In Proceedings of The Twelfth International Symposium On Computer And Information Sciences (ISCIS-XII ), 1997, Antalya, Turkey.

37.  Jinli Cao and M. Orlowski, "Transactions Classification and a concurrency Control Algorithm in a Multidatabase System",   in proceedings of "11th International Symposium on Computer and Information Systems (ISCIS-XI)" 1996, Antaly, Turkey.

38.  Jinli Cao and Marian Orlowski, On Transaction Recovery in a Multidatabase System",  in the "Proceedings of InterSymp-96, The International Conference on System Research" in Germany, 1996.

39.  Jinli Cao and Marian W. Orlowski, "On Partial Order Processing for Dynamic Concurrency Control in Database System"  In the proceedings of "International Conference for Young Computer Scientists'9 5", pages 259-264, ISBN 7-301-02880-6, Peking University Press,1995.

40.  Jinli Cao and Marian W. Orlowski, "On Dynamic Concurrency Control in a Multidatabase System", In Advances in Database and Expert Systems, Volume 2, Pages 11-15, ISBN 0921836333, 1995"

41.  M. Orlowski and J. Cao,"On Optimization of Update Propagation in Multidatabase Systems", In the Proceedings of "IEEE International Conference of TENCON' 93".