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Distinguished Chair and Distinguished Research Fellows 特聘講座/特聘研究員
張韻詩
特聘講座
Jane W. S. Liu
Tel: +886-2-2788-3799 ext. 1807
Fax: +886-2-2782-4814
Chair Research Fellow Email: janeliu@iis.sinica.edu.tw
Sc.D., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/janeliu
Research Description Publications
研究介紹 代表著作
My research has been on theories, algorithms, architec- and assistive devices and services. Some of them are 1. T. Y. Chen, Y. C. Huang, T. S. Chou, C. S. Shih, and J. W. S. Liu, “Model-
tures and tools for building real-time and embedded sys- designed to enhance the quality of life and self-reliance Based Development of User-Centric Automation and Assistive Devices/Sys-
tems. The past two decades have ushered in tremendous of their users, including elderly individuals and people tems,” IEEE Systems Journal, March 2012
advances in the technologies needed to ensure predict- with chronic conditions or functional limitations. Others 2. E. T.-H. Chu, Y.-L. Chen, J. W. S. Liu and J. K. Zao, “Strategies for Crowd-
able timing behavior and enable rigorous validation of are automation tools for care-providing institutions for sourcing for Disaster Situation Information,” WIT Transactions on the Built
real-time systems built from commodity hardware and the purpose of improving quality of care. All of them are Environment, 2011. ● Taiwan Linux Consortium, Linux
software components. My students and I have contrib- used at their users’ discretion, often for the purpose of 3. P. S. Tsai, C. S. Shih, J. W. S. Liu, “Mobile Reminder for Flexible and Safe Golden Penguin Award (2009)
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uted our fair share: Our results were used extensively in complementing and compensating for the users’ skills Medication Scheduler for Home Users,” Proceedings of the 14 Interna-
PERTS (Prototyping Environment for Real-Time Systems), and weaknesses. Such a device should be easy to use tional Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, July 2011. ● Honor Medal, Taiwan Institute of
Information and Computing Machin-
a system of schedulers and tools that we built in the mid and easily configurable, customizable and maintained. 4. P. H. Tsai, C. Y. Yu, C. S. Shih, and J. W. S. Liu, “Smart Medication Dis- ery (2008)
90’s. PERTS puts important scheduling, resource man- The device should never do any harm even when mis- penser: Design, Architecture and Implementation,” IEEE Systems Journal,
agement, and validation theorems and algorithms in a used. A major thrust of our research has been directed Vol. 5, No 1, March 2011. ● Technical Achievement Award, IEEE
Computer Society, TC on Real-Time
form ready for use by developers to validate, simulate towards developing models, architecture, middleware 5. T. S. Chou, H. Y. Huang, Y. C. Wang, W. S. Chen, C. S. Shih, and J. W. Systems (2005)
and evaluate design alternatives for systems with critical and tools that support model- and component-based S. Liu, “EMWF: A Middleware for Flexible Automation and Assistive De- ● Distinguished Visiting Research Fel-
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timing requirements. PERTS was distributed to numer- design, development and quality assurance of such de- vices,” Proceedings of the 8 IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for low, IIS, Academia Sinica (2004+)
ous universities and research laboratories worldwide and vices and services. Results of this work, including an em- Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, October 2010.
has been enhanced and commercialized. bedded workflow framework, a simulation environment, 6. P. H. Tsai, Y. T. Chuang, T. S. Chou, C. S. Shih, and J. W. S. Liu, “iNuC: ● William Bentor Honorary Chair Profes-
sor, CS, National Tsing-Hua University,
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and links to our open source software prototypes, can be An Intelligent Mobile Medication Cart,’ Proceedings of the 2 International (2004+)
My students and I have also developed the underlying found at the SISARL homepage http://sisarl.org. Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, October 2009.
principle of open architecture for real-time applications. 7. P. H. Tsai, C. S. Shih and J. W. S. Liu, “Algorithms for Scheduling Interac- ● Software Architect, OS Core Technol-
A common assumption underlying existing real-time More recently, a major thrust of my research is on in- tive Medications,” Foundations of Computing and Decision Science, Vol. ogy, Windows, Microsoft (2000-2004)
techniques and standards is that the system is closed. To formation technology for disaster preparedness and 34, No. 4, 2009. ● Professor of Computer Science,
determine whether an application can meet its timing re- response. We aim to strengthen the underpinnings of 8. T. S. Chou and J. W. S. Liu, “Design and Implementation of RFID-Based University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign , United States (1981-2000)
quirements, one must analyze detailed timing attributes several critical technologies, including technologies for Object Locators,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on RFID Technology,
and resource usages of all applications that share the building pervasive smart devices and applications as ele- March 2007. ● ScD, EE, Massachusetts Institute of
platform. The need for detailed information prohibits in- ments of disaster-prepared smart environments; models, 9. P. H. Tsai, H. C. Yeh, C. Y. Yu, P. C. Hsiu, C. S. Shih and J. W. S. Liu, “Com- Technology (1968)
dependent development of components and invariably algorithms and tools for crowdsourcing collection of sen- pliance Enforcement of Temporal and Dosage Constraints,” Proceedings of ● M.S., EE, Massachusetts Institute of
limits the configurability of real-time systems. Our open sor information to complement data from in-situ physical IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 2006. Technology (1966)
real-time system principle makes it possible to tune and sensors; scalable and responsive emergency information 10. J. W. S. Liu, Real-Time Systems, Prentice Hall, 2000 ● B.S., EE, Cleveland State University
validate the timing behavior of a real-time component brokerage services as alternatives to break-the-glass ap- 11. Z. Deng and J. W. S. Liu, “Scheduling Real-Time Applications Containing (1959)
in an open environment independently of other compo- proaches to emergency information access control; and Sporadic Tasks in an Open Environment,” Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time ● Fellow of IEEE
nents running on the same platform. executable models for capturing behaviors of individual Systems Symposium, pp. 308-319, December 1997.
elements of disaster scenarios and the interactions of 12. J. W. S. Liu, K. J. Lin, W. K. Shih, R. Bettati and J.Y. Chung, “Imprecise
Since I joined the Institute in 2004, an objective of my people among themselves and with the elements of the Computations,” IEEE Proceedings, Vol. 82, pp. 1-12, January 1994.
work has been to advance the technology for building environment to support virtual and augmented simula-
high-quality and affordable human-centric automation tion.
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