Principles, Methodologies, and Service-Oriented Approaches for Cloud Computing

Xiaoyu Yang is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, and a Research Fellow in Reading e-Science Center, University of Reading, UK. He completed his post-doctoral research in the University of Cambridge in 2008. He earned an MSc degree in IT (2001) and a PhD degree in Systems Engineering (2006) from "Faculty of Computing Science and Engineering" at the De Montfort University, UK. He was previously a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences and affiliated software engineer in Cambridge e-Science Centre at the University of Cambridge. He joined School of Electronics and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, UK as a Research Engineer after his post-doctoral research at Cambridge. Dr. Yang has participated or undertaken many EU framework projects and UK government funded research projects, and has a number of publications in referred journals. His technical interests include Systems Engineering, e-Science, Grid / Cloud computing, SOA, distributed system, and product lifecycle information management.