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Kai Zhang 0067
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6ranked-venue papers
1as first author
6since 2021 · last 2026
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 4 · 1 first-author · 4 since 2021Computer networks · 2 · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Enhancing Privacy-Preserving Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Federated Learning for IoT ServicesabstractAs a structured representation of real-world facts, knowledge graphs (KGs) play a vital role in IoT applications, due to their strong reasoning capabilities and interpretability. However, private user IoT KG data often needs to be centrally collected for embedding training, which poses significant privacy risks and limits the scalability of knowledge-driven downstream applications in distributed IoT environments. Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution for decentralized model training, eliminating the need for direct data collection. However, existing federated knowledge graph embedding (KGE) methods often struggle to preserve the inherent graph structure of entities and relations, leading to fragmented and incomplete representations. Additionally, they struggle to effectively capture diverse relational dependencies within personal KGs. To address these challenges, this article proposes an enhanced federated KG embedding method for personal knowledge sharing (FPKS) to enable privacy-preserving KGE training. The FPKS framework consists of a central server and multiple federated clients. To enhance entity and relationship alignment across clients, FPKS maintains separate embedding tables for entities and relationships on the server. Moreover, to capture the structural and contextual information of personal KGs, we introduce a local encoder-decoder architecture that employs a graph convolutional network (GCN) variant as an encoder and a KGE scoring function as a decoder. Furthermore, we propose a bidirectional composite operator for GCN (BiDGCN) to enhance multi-relational information aggregation. Extensive experiments on two widely used KG datasets demonstrate that FPKS significantly outperforms existing methods, improving the quality of learned embeddings while ensuring data privacy. Our approach facilitates decentralized personal knowledge sharing, marking an advancement in secure and efficient IoT knowledge-driven services. Hongliang Sun 0001, Xiaofeng Bi, Zhiying Tu, Bohai Zhao, Kai Zhang 0067, Xiaofei Xu 0001 |
ACM Trans. Internet Techn. | 5 |
| 2025 | A Weighted Preference Optimization Service Recommendation Method Based on Knowledge Graph and Large Language ModelabstractKnowledge graph (KG)-based service recommendation methods address issues such as data sparsity and cold start in real-world service recommendations by integrating external knowledge as auxiliary information. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention due to their powerful comprehension and reasoning capabilities. LLM-based recommendation systems also demonstrate advantages in interpretability and few-shot service reasoning. However, the integration of LLMs and KGs into existing service recommendation methods presents two major challenges: (1) the difficulty of aligning service recommendation tasks with language modeling tasks, and (2) the lack of interpretable quantification of the relationship between knowledge and personalized preferences. To address these challenges, this paper proposes WPKL (Weighted Preference Optimization based on KG and LLM). WPKL leverages external knowledge to assist LLMs in modeling user preferences and employs a hybrid graph neural network (GNN) framework to enhance preference representation. Additionally, a weighted preference optimization (WPO) approach is proposed to fine-tune the LLM, enabling interpretable quantification of user preferences and personalized knowledge. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that WPKL achieves high-quality service recommendations. Hongliang Sun 0001, Zhiying Tu, Dianbo Sui, Yongchao Xing, Kai Zhang 0067, Bohai Zhao, Xiaofei Xu 0001 |
ICWS | 6 |
| 2025 | SABER: A MAPE-K-based Self-Adaptive Framework for Microservice Bad Smell RefactoringabstractTo address the limitations of existing microservice bad smell (MBS) detection and refactoring tools, particularly the lack of fully automated architectural bad smell refactoring solutions, this paper proposes a MAPE-K-based self-adaptive framework for microservice bad smell refactoring (SABER). The framework aims to eliminate architectural smells through closed-loop self-repair, thereby reducing risks related to main-tainability, scalability, and security. SABER employs a cloud-edge collaborative architecture: edge-side components collect real-time metrics from a Kubernetes cluster, while cloud-side components detect architectural smells and dynamically generate refactoring strategies. These strategies include service merging, splitting, adding, and adjustment. By automatically executing these strategies, SABER achieves architectural bad smell elimi-nation. Experimental results show that the framework achieves 95.53 % precision and 84.71 % recall across ten benchmark systems, significantly improving refactoring efficiency compared to semi-automated and manual methods. Its deep integration with DevOps pipelines validates its effectiveness in sustaining microservice health, offering a novel paradigm for autonomous maintenance in distributed systems. Yongchao Xing, Yiming Lv, Xianglin Zeng, Bohai Zhao, Kai Zhang 0067, Hongliang Sun 0001, Weipan Yang, Zhiying Tu |
ICWS | 5 |
| 2025 | Personalized Product Customization Service Based on Fine-Grained and Precise Perception of Supply and DemandabstractIn the era of industrial internet, achieving a dynamic balance between mass production and personalized customization has become a core demand for industrial development. This necessitates that product service systems can accurately capture users' personalized requirements. Although large language models (LLMs) possess powerful dialogue and reasoning capabilities, enabling them to identify implicit requirements, they still exhibit limitations in supply-demand matching, particularly in the precise alignment between personalized requirements and product capabilities. To this end, this study innovatively proposes a personalized product customization service framework (Req2Sol) based on fine-grained supply-demand cognition. This framework formalizes the modeling of supply-demand capabilities and finegrained personalized requirements through a knowledge graph (KG), integrating them into the LLM training process. This significantly enhances the model's understanding of supplydemand relationships, enabling accurate product configuration and customization recommendations. Firstly, a multi-view modeling approach for supply-demand capabilities and personalized fine-grained requirements is proposed, constructing a requirementproduct knowledge graph. Secondly, the knowledge graph is utilized as pre-training data to achieve domain-specific finetuning of LLMs. By introducing conditional scenarios and strategies, a five-level quantitative evaluation system for Req2Sol is established, improving its performance by 7.3 % compared to the baseline model when handling unconventional or inaccurately expressed user requirements. Finally, using the air conditioning domain as a case study, the effectiveness of the framework in achieving precise supply-demand cognition and customized product recommendations is validated through the Req2Sol-QAS system developed by invoking Req2Sol services. Kai Zhang 0067, Bohai Zhao, Yongchao Xing, Hongliang Sun 0001, Zhiying Tu |
ICWS | 1 |
| 2025 | In3Edge: Interest-Driven Service Incentive Mechanism Based on Stackelberg Game in Edge-Empowered IIoTabstractThe integration of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has markedly improved resource accessibility and propelled digital-intelligent advancements. Nevertheless, the substantial costs of MEC infrastructure also pose critical challenges to incentive mechanism design. Specifically, there is still an absence of a standardized and widely recognized incentive framework for the dynamic and non-cooperative interactions between edge service requesters and providers. Furthermore, the highly complicated characteristics of IIoT necessitate a greater reliance on dependable and trustworthy edge resource provision than other paradigms, which implies that human-centric factors (e.g., credit) are equally crucial as profit-driven metrics (e.g., price) in incentive design. To tackle these challenges, we propose In3Edge, a Stackelberg game-based incentive mechanism that systematically considers the interplay between profit-driven and interest-oriented indicators while accommodating heterogeneous peers, subjective interest divergences, and objective resource disparities. Particularly, leveraging convex optimization theory, we provide rigorous proofs and in-depth analyses of the intrinsic properties of In3Edge, encompassing the concavity/convexity of utility functions, equilibrium solution boundaries, optimal responses under peer/interest heterogeneity, and closed-form solutions for symmetric multipeer scenarios while articulating a series of propositions and theorems to underpin future research. Finally, extensive experiments are constructed under diverse dynamically changing scenarios with distinct characteristics, confirming the strong motivational capabilities of In3Edge in MEC-empowered IIoT. Bohai Zhao, Zhiying Tu, Kai Peng 0002, Yongchao Xing, Kai Zhang 0067, Hongliang Sun 0001 |
ICWS | 5 |
| 2025 | SerFlow: A Multistage Service-Enhanced Mechanism for Workflow Applications in CPSs With End-Edge-Cloud CollaborationabstractThe predominant obstacles confronting contemporary cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are their extensive heterogeneity and stringent constraints, such as diverse applications and real-time service requirements. While the incorporation of mobile edge computing could alleviate some of these constraints, challenges persist in equilibrating services and loads due to the finite computational resources of edge servers. Concurrently, the implementation of associated modules or methodologies has been prompted by escalating apprehensions regarding service security, which may have a detrimental impact on the performance of CPS, particularly in terms of resource occupation and service overhead. To this end, we develop an end-edge-cloud-collaborative CPS framework in which tasks are modeled as workflow applications, followed by constructing a multi-stage service-enhanced method named SerFlow. In SerFlow, a relevance-aware security precaution mechanism is devised, which evaluates the connection hierarchy and correlation metrics across subtasks, subsequently establishing the service anti-conflict mechanism to augment security levels. Particularly, a comprehensive evaluation score for security precaution levels is provided, which enables the security precaution to engage in the following optimization operations and evaluation modules as a quantifiable metric. Leveraging the non-Euclidean geometry framework, we then develop a Pareto frontier modelling method that integrates Newton-Raphson and geodesic while a survival value evaluation strategy with correlation constraints is involved in accomplishing coarse-grained cluster selection. Subsequently, an improved value-based and model-free deep reinforcement learning algorithm is suggested to generate fine-grained service strategies in end-edge-cloud collaborative scenarios. Finally, comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of SerFlow in achieving enhanced security precaution levels while maintaining superior service efficiency. Bohai Zhao, Kai Peng 0002, Kai Zhang 0067, Hongliang Sun 0001, Zhiying Tu |
IEEE Internet Things J. | 3 |