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Digital twin for the built environment

  • Jorge Merino, Xiang Xie, Nicola Moretti, Janet Yoon Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2023). Data integration for digital twins in the built environment based on federated data models. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Ahead of Print.
  • Xiang Xie*, Jorge Merino, Nicola Moretti, Pieter Pauwels, Janet Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2023). Digital twin enabled fault detection and diagnosis process for building HVAC systems. Automation in Construction, 146, p.104695.
  • Nicola Moretti, Xiang Xie, Jorge Merino, Janet Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2023). Federated Data Modeling for Built Environment Digital Twins. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 37(4), p.04023013.
  • Xiang Xie*, Qiuchen Lu, Manuel Herrera, Qiaojun Yu, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Schooling. (2021). Does historical data still count? Exploring the applicability of smart building applications in the post-pandemic period. Sustainable Cities and Society, 69, 102804.
  • Long Chen, Xiang Xie, Qiuchen Lu, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Michael Pitt and Jian Yang, 2021. Gemini Principles-Based Digital Twin Maturity Model for Asset Management. Sustainability, 13(15), p.8224.
  • Nicola Moretti*, Xiang Xie*, Jorge Merino, Justas Brazauskas, Ajith Kumar Parlikad. (2020). An openBIM Approach to IoT Integration with Incomplete As-Built Data. Applied Science, 10: 8287.
  • Qiuchen Lu, Xiang Xie*, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Mary Schooling. (2020). Digital Twin-Enabled Anomaly Detection for Built Asset Monitoring in Operation and Maintenance. Automation in Construction, 118: 103277.
  • Xiang Xie, Qiuchen Lu, David Rodenas-herraiz, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Mary Schooling. (2020). Visualised Inspection System Development for Monitoring Environmental Anomalies in Daily O&M Management. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(8): 1835-1852.
  • Qiuchen Lu, Xiang Xie*, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Mary Schooling, Eirini Konstantinou. (2020). Moving from Building Information Models to Digital Twins for Operation and Maintenance. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 1-9.
  • Qiuchen Lu, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Philip Woodall, Gishan Don Ranasinghe, Xiang Xie, Zhenglin Liang, Eirini Konstantinou, James Heaton, Jennifer Mary Schooling. (2020). Developing a Digital Twin at Building and City Levels: Case Study of West Cambridge Campus. Journal of Management in Engineering, 36(3): 05020004.
  • Xiang Xie*, Janet Chang, Mohamad Kassem, Ajith Parlikad (2023) Resolving inconsistency in building information using uncertain knowledge graphs: a case of building space management. 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC3).
  • Xiang Xie*, Manuel Herrera, Tejal Shah, Mohamad Kassem, Philip James (2023) Learning partial correlation graph for multivariate sensor data and detecting sensor communities in smart buildings. 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop.
  • Xiang Xie*, Nicola Moretti, Jorge Merino, Janet Chang, Pieter Pauwels, Ajith Parlikad. (2022). Digital twin framework supporting fault detection and diagnosis process for building HVAC systems. World Building Congress (WBC 2022).
  • Nicola Moretti, Xiang Xie, Jorge Merino, Janet Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2022). Digital Twin based built environment asset management services development. World Building Congress (WBC 2022).
  • Jorge Merino, Xiang Xie, Nicola Moretti, Janet Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2022). Data Integration for Digital Twins in the Built Environment. 2022 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC3).
  • Nicola Moretti, Xiang Xie, Jorge Merino, Janet Chang, Ajith Parlikad. (2022). Built environment data modelling: a review of current approaches and standards supporting Asset Management. 5th IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology (AMEST 2022).
  • Janet Chang, Jorge Merino, Xiang Xie, Nicola Moretti, Ajith Parlikad. (2022). Information Quality for Effective Asset Management: A Literature Review. 5th IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology (AMEST 2022).
  • Xiang Xie*, Nicola Moretti, Jorge Merino, Janet Yoon Chang, Ajith Kumar Parlikad. (2021). Ontology-Based Spatial and System Hierarchies Federation for Fine-Grained Building Energy Analysis. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of CIB W78.
  • Nicola Moretti, Xiang Xie, Jorge Merino, Janet Yoon Chang, Ajith Kumar Parlikad. (2021). Built environment digital twin integrated data model development. 2021 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE2021).
  • Xiang Xie*, Qiuchen Lu, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Schooling. (2020). Digital Twin Enabled Asset Anomaly Detection for Building Facility Management. 4th IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technologies.
  • Xiang Xie*, Qiuchen Lu, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Ramprakash Srinivasan Puri. (2019). Reinforcement Learning Based Monitoring and Control of Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentration Considering Occupation. Construction Research Congress 2020: Computer Applications.
  • Qiuchen Lu, Xiang Xie, James Heaton, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Schooling. (2019). From BIM towards Digital Twin: Strategy and Future Development for Smart Asset Management. 9th Workshop on Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future.

Smart infrastructure based on data-informed decision-making

  • Enhua Cao, Tengfei Bao, Hui Li, Xiang Xie, Rongyao Yuan, Shaopei Hu, Wenjun Wang. (2022). A hybrid feature selection-multidimensional LSTM framework for deformation prediction of super high arch dams. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 26(11), pp.4603-4616.
  • Georgios Hadjidemetriou, Xiang Xie, Ajith Kumar Parlikad. (2020). Predictive Group Maintenance Model for Networks of Bridges. Transportation Research Record, 2674(4): 373-383.
  • Xiang Xie, Dibo Hou, Xiaoyu Tang, Hongjian Zhang. (2019). Leakage Identification in Water Distribution Networks with Error Tolerance Capability. Water Resources Management, 33(3): 1233-1247.
  • Xiang Xie, Hongjian Zhang, Dibo Hou. (2017). Bayesian Approach for Joint Estimation of Demand and Roughness in Water Distribution Systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 143(8): 04017034.
  • Xiang Xie, Quan Zhou, Dibo Hou, Hongjian Zhang. (2017). Compressed sensing based optimal sensor placement for leak localization in water distribution networks. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 20(6): 1286-1295.
  • Jie Yu, Le Xu, Xiang Xie, Dibo Hou, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang, Hongjian Zhang. (2017). Contamination Event Detection Method Using Multi-Stations Temporal-Spatial Information Based on Bayesian Network in Water Distribution Systems. Water, 9(11):894.
  • Xiang Xie*, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Ramprakash Srinivasan Puri. A Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Based Approach for Demand Forecasting within Power Grid Digital Twins. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids.

Sensing/Data-centric engineering

  • Ke Wang, Zanting Ye, Xiang Xie, Haidong Cui, Tao Chen, Banteng Liu. (2024). MLN-net: A multi-source medical image segmentation method for clustered microcalcifications using multiple layer normalization. Knowledge-Based Systems, 283: 111127.
  • Xiaoyu Tang#, Xiang Xie# (Equal contribution), Bo Fan, Youxian Sun. (2018). A Fault-Tolerant Flow Measuring Method based on PSO-SVM with Transit-Time Multi-Path Ultrasonic Gas Flowmeters. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 67(5): 992-1005.
  • Xiaoyu Tang, Xiang Xie, Hongjian Zhang, Hongliang Zhou. (2015). Data integration for multi-path ultrasonic flowmeter based on Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm. IET Science, Measurement & Technology, 9(8): 909-920.

Data quality

  • Jorge Merino, Xiang Xie, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Ian Lewis, Duncan McFarlane. (2020). Impact of Data Quality in Real-Time Big Data Systems. 39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER).

Healthcare facility management

  • Qiuchen Lu, Long Chen, Xiang Xie, Zigeng Fang, Zhen Ye, Michael Pitt (2023) Framing blockchain-integrated digital twins for emergent healthcare management at local and city levels: a proof of concept. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability, Ahead of Print.
  • Xiang Xie, Zigeng Fang, Long Chen, Qiuchen Lu, Tan Tan, Zhen Ye, Michael Pitt (2022). Facilitating Patient-Centric Thinking in Hospital Facility Management: A Case of Pharmaceutical Inventory. Buildings, 12(7), p.888.
  • Qiuchen Lu, Xiang Xie, Long Chen, Zhen Ye, Zigeng Fang, Jiayin Meng, Michael Pitt and Jinyi Lin. (2021). Creating an Inter-hospital Resilient Network for Pandemic Response Based on Blockchain and Dynamic Digital Twins. ACM Winter Simulation Conference 2021.