Nan Niu

According to our database, Nan Niu authored at least 163 papers between 2002 and 2024.

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2024

DeepOCL: A deep neural network for Object Constraint Language generation from unrestricted nature language.

Yilong Yang, Yibo Liu, Tianshu Bao, Weiru Wang, Nan Niu, Yongfeng Yin

CAAI Trans. Intell. Technol., February, 2024

Welcome to the Fourth International Workshop on Environment-Driven Requirements Engineering (EnviRE'24).

Zhi Li, Xiaohong Chen, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2024

Context-Aware Name Recommendation for Field Renaming.

Chunhao Dong, Yanjie Jiang, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu

Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

2023

Deep learning's fitness for purpose: A transformation problem frame's perspective.

Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu, Yilong Yang, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson

CAAI Trans. Intell. Technol., June, 2023

BugBuilder: An Automated Approach to Building Bug Repository.

Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Xiaoqing Luo, Zhihao Zhu, Xiaye Chi, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Yamin Hu, Pan Bian, Lu Zhang

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., April, 2023

Exploring privacy requirements gap between developers and end users.

Jianzhang Zhang, Jinping Hua, Nan Niu, Sisi Chen, Juha Savolainen, Chuang Liu

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2023

A Preliminary Evaluation of ChatGPT in Requirements Information Retrieval.

Jianzhang Zhang, Yiyang Chen, Nan Niu, Chuang Liu

CoRR, 2023

Deep Learning Based Feature Envy Detection Boosted by Real-World Examples.

Bo Liu, Hui Liu, Guangjie Li, Nan Niu, Zimao Xu, Yifan Wang, Yunni Xia, Yuxia Zhang, Yanjie Jiang

Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023

SST' 23 - Software and Systems Traceability Message from the Workshop Chairs.

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Nan Niu, Mona Rahimi, Michael Vierhauser

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2023, 2023

An RE'23 Workshop on Environment-Driven Requirements Engineering (EnviRE'23).

Zhi Jin, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2023, 2023

Prompting Creative Requirements via Traceable and Adversarial Examples in Deep Learning.

Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Jianzhang Zhang, Juha Savolainen, Glen Horton, Sean Crowe, Thomas Scherz, Lisa Haitz

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2023

Environmental Variations of Software Features: A Logical Test Cases' Perspective.

Md Rayhan Amin, Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2023, 2023

Automated Software Entity Matching Between Successive Versions.

Bo Liu, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Guangjie Li, Yanjie Jiang

Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023

"What You See Is What You Test": Recommending Features from GUIs for Requirements-Based Testing.

Zedong Peng, Juha Savolainen, Jianzhang Zhang, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2023

Resource-Centric Goal Model Slicing for Detecting Feature Interactions.

Zedong Peng, Mahima Dahiya, Tessneem Khalil, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Yilong Yang

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2023

Completeness of Natural Language Requirements: A Comparative Study of User Stories and Feature Descriptions.

Aurek Chattopadhyay, Ganesh Malla, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2023

On the Way to a Framework for Evaluating Creativity in Requirements Engineering.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Anh Quoc Do, Hayden Lam, Md Rayhan Amin, Gary L. Bradshaw, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2023

2022

Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis.

Wentao Wang, Faryn Dumont, Nan Niu, Glen Horton

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?

Hui Liu, Mingzhu Shen, Jiaqi Zhu, Nan Niu, Ge Li, Lu Zhang

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Testing software's changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification.

Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, Zhi Jin

Requir. Eng., 2022

Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images.

Fangwei Chen, Li Zhang, Xiaoli Lian, Nan Niu

J. Syst. Softw., 2022

Metamorphic Testing of Image Classification and Consistency Analysis Using Clustering.

Hemanth Gudaparthi, Prudhviraj Naidu, Nan Niu

Int. J. Multim. Data Eng. Manag., 2022

Detecting Features Concerning Privacy From App Reviews.

Jianzhang Zhang, Jinping Hua, Yiyang Chen, Nan Niu, Chuang Liu

CoRR, 2022

On the Role of Data Engineering Decisions in AI-Based Applications.

Aurek Chattopadhyay, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2022 Workshops, 2022

Automatic Terminology Extraction and Ranking for Feature Modeling.

Jianzhang Zhang, Sisi Chen, Jinping Hua, Nan Niu, Chuang Liu

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2022

Environment Assertion Driven Requirements Elicitation: A Preliminary Study.

Austin Reid Thompson, Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2022

Eliciting Environmental Opposites for Requirements-Based Testing.

Sarah Sturmer, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2022

An RE'22 Workshop on Environment-Driven Requirements Engineering (EnviRE'22).

Zhi Jin, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2022

Learning I/O Variables from Scientific Software's User Manuals.

Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Sreelekhaa Nagamalli Santhoshkumar, Nan Niu, Upulee Kanewala

Proceedings of the Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 2022

Cache Shaping: An Effective Defense Against Cache-Based Website Fingerprinting.

Haipeng Li, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang

Proceedings of the CODASPY '22: Twelveth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 24, 2022

MultiEvasion: Evasion Attacks Against Multiple Malware Detectors.

Hao Liu, Wenhai Sun, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2022

FaultHunter: Automatically Detecting Vulnerabilities in C against Fault Injection Attacks.

Logan Reichling, Ikran Warsame, Shane Reilly, Austen Brownfield, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, 2022

2021

MHCPDP: multi-source heterogeneous cross-project defect prediction via multi-source transfer learning and autoencoder.

Jie Wu, Yingbo Wu, Nan Niu, Min Zhou

Softw. Qual. J., 2021

Scientific Software Testing Goes Serverless: Creating and Invoking Metamorphic Functions.

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu

IEEE Softw., 2021

Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects.

Inam Illahi, Hui Liu, Qasim Umer, Nan Niu

J. Syst. Softw., 2021

Unit and regression tests of scientific software: A study on SWMM.

Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu

J. Comput. Sci., 2021

Discovering Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software From User Forums.

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Zedong Peng, Nan Niu, Jeff Carver, Karla Morris

Comput. Sci. Eng., 2021

A first look at developers' live chat on Gitter.

Lin Shi, Xiao Chen, Ye Yang, Hanzhi Jiang, Ziyou Jiang, Nan Niu, Qing Wang

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '21: 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021

XAI tools in the public sector: a case study on predicting combined sewer overflows.

Nicholas Maltbie, Nan Niu, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '21: 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021

Which abbreviations should be expanded?

Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, Yuhai Zhao, Lu Zhang

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '21: 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021

Semantic Frames for Classifying Temporal Requirements: An Exploratory Study.

Aurek Chattopadhyay, Nan Niu, Zedong Peng, Jianzhang Zhang

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of REFSQ 2021 Workshops, 2021

Towards Norm Classification: An Initial Analysis of HIPAA Breaches.

Vedarsh Shah, Zedong Peng, Ganesh Malla, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2021

Environment-Driven Abstraction Identification for Requirements-Based Testing.

Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, Zhi Jin

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2021

Co-AI: A Colab-Based Tool for Abstraction Identification.

Zedong Peng, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2021

An RE'21 Workshop on Environment-Driven Requirements Engineering (EnviRE'21).

Zhi Jin, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2021

Welcome from the Organizers.

Sepideh Ghanavati, Nan Niu, Gunter Mussbacher, João Araújo, Pablo Sánchez

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2021

Metamorphic Testing for Convolutional Neural Networks: Relations over Image Classification.

Prudhviraj Naidu, Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2021

Reliability of Convolutional Neural Networks: Failure Metrics with Metamorphic Test Cases.

Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2021

Automated Support to Capture Environment Assertions for Requirements-Based Testing.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Austin Reid Thompson, Anh Quoc Do, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2021

Foraging-Theoretic Tool Composition: An Empirical Study on Vulnerability Discovery.

Mona Assarandarban, Tanmay Bhowmik, Anh Quoc Do, Surendra Raju Chekuri, Wentao Wang, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2021

Finding Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software.

Xuanyi Lin, Zedong Peng, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Hui Liu

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2021

Extracting Concise Bug-Fixing Patches from Human-Written Patches in Version Control Systems.

Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Lu Zhang, Yamin Hu

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2021

I/O Associations in Scientific Software: A Study of SWMM.

Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Nan Niu, Omar I. Abdul-Aziz

Proceedings of the Computational Science - ICCS 2021, 2021

Contextual Understanding and Improvement of Metamorphic Testing in Scientific Software Development.

Zedong Peng, Upulee Kanewala, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the ESEM '21: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2021

Semi-Automatic Bug Generation Using Test Case Negation.

Tyler Westland, Nan Niu, Rashmi Jha, David Kapp, Temesguen Kebede

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, 2021

2020

Complementarity in Requirements Tracing.

Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Mounifah Alenazi, Juha Savolainen, Zhendong Niu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Li Da Xu

IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2020

Requirements Engineering in the Days of Artificial Intelligence.

Fabiano Dalpiaz, Nan Niu

IEEE Softw., 2020

Reports from SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Awardees of ASE 2019.

Nan Niu

ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2020

Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings.

Ally S. Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Qasim Umer, Zhendong Niu

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

Exploratory Metamorphic Testing for Scientific Software.

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Damian W. I. Rouson

Comput. Sci. Eng., 2020

Relating the Empirical Foundations of Attack Generation and Vulnerability Discovery.

Tyler Westland, Nan Niu, Rashmi Jha, David Kapp, Temesguen Kebede

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2020

Safety Patterns for SysML: What Does OMG Specify?

Nan Niu, Logan Johnson, Christopher Diltz

Proceedings of the Reuse in Emerging Software Engineering Practices, 2020

Deep learning for smart sewer systems: assessing nonfunctional requirements.

Hemanth Gudaparthi, Reese Johnson, Harshitha Challa, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the ICSE-SEIS '20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

A novel approach to tracing safety requirements and state-based design models.

Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

Unit Tests of Scientific Software: A Study on SWMM.

Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the Computational Science - ICCS 2020, 2020

Faulty Requirements Made Valuable: On the Role of Data Quality in Deep Learning.

Harshitha Challa, Nan Niu, Reese Johnson

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering, 2020

2019

In-Place Traceability for Automated Production Systems: A Survey of PLC and SysML Tools.

Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Mounifah Alenazi, Li Da Xu

IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2019

Corrections to "Requirements Socio-Technical Graphs for Managing Practitioners' Traceability Questions".

Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Mona Assarandarban, Li Da Xu, Juha Savolainen, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., 2019

SST'19 - Software and Systems Traceability: Summary of the 10th International Workshop at the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 27, 2019.

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Nan Niu, Jin L. C. Guo, Anas Mahmoud

ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2019

Special issue on just-in-time requirements engineering for software integration.

Nan Niu, Daniel Méndez Fernández

J. Ind. Inf. Integr., 2019

Multi-Location Program Repair Strategies Learned from Successful Experience (S).

Shangwen Wang, Xiaoguang Mao, Nan Niu, Xin Yi, Anbang Guo

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2019

Automated Recommendation of Software Refactorings Based on Feature Requests.

Ally S. Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Qasim Umer, Zhendong Niu

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2019

The Role of Environment Assertions in Requirements-Based Testing.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Surendra Raju Chekuri, Anh Quoc Do, Wentao Wang, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2019

The 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE'19).

Jaspreet Bhatia, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nan Niu, Fabiano Dalpiaz

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2019

SysML Modeling Mistakes and Their Impacts on Requirements.

Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2019

Releasing scientific software in GitHub: a case study on SWMM2PEST.

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science, 2019

Vaccine: : Obfuscating Access Pattern Against File-Injection Attacks.

Hao Liu, Boyang Wang, Nan Niu, Shomir Wilson, Xuetao Wei

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2019

2018

Automatically Tracing Dependability Requirements via Term-Based Relevance Feedback.

Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Zhendong Niu

IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2018

Requirements Socio-Technical Graphs for Managing Practitioners' Traceability Questions.

Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Mona Assarandarban, Li Da Xu, Juha Savolainen, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., 2018

Requirements Engineering and Continuous Deployment.

Nan Niu, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Xavier Franch, Jari Partanen, Juha Savolainen

IEEE Softw., 2018

Multi-Location Program Repair: Roads Ahead.

Shangwen Wang, Xiaoguang Mao, Nan Niu, Xin Yi, Anbang Guo

CoRR, 2018

Recommending Refactoring Solutions Based on Traceability and Code Metrics.

Ally S. Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Zhendong Niu, Wentao Wang, Nan Niu

IEEE Access, 2018

Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study.

Darius Cepulis, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2018

Enhancing Automated Requirements Traceability by Resolving Polysemy.

Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Hui Liu, Zhendong Niu

Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2018

Using Obstacle Analysis to Support SysML-Based Model Testing for Cyber Physical Systems.

Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, 2018

Mining Security Requirements from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Agile Projects.

Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality Requirements in Agile Projects, 2018

Assuring Virtual PLC in the Context of SysML Models.

Mounifah Alenazi, Deepak Reddy, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the New Opportunities for Software Reuse - 17th International Conference, 2018

Hierarchical metamorphic relations for testing scientific software.

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science, 2018

Answering the requirements traceability questions.

Arushi Gupta, Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, 2018

2017

Advancing viewpoint merging in requirements engineering: a theoretical replication and explanatory study.

Charu Khatwani, Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, Amy Koshoffer, Linda Newman, Juha Savolainen

Requir. Eng., 2017

Software product lines traceability: A systematic mapping study.

Tassio Vale, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Vander Alves, Uirá Kulesza, Nan Niu, Ricardo de Lima

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2017

Ethnographic field work in requirements engineering.

Sandeep Reddivari, Asai Asaithambi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Li Da Xu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

Enterp. Inf. Syst., 2017

Facilitating end-user developers by estimating time cost of foraging a webpage.

Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, Michael Wagner

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2017

RE in the Age of Continuous Deployment.

Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2017

Traceability for Automated Production Systems: A Position Paper.

Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta

Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2017

A Novel Coupling Pattern in Computational Science and Engineering Software.

Suraj Kamble, Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, Michelle Simon

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science, 2017

Short-term revisit during programming tasks.

Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2017

2016

A Clustering-Based Approach to Enriching Code Foraging Environment.

Nan Niu, Xiaoyu Jin, Zhendong Niu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Ling Li, Mikhail Yu. Kataev

IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2016

Optimal Group Size for Software Change Tasks: A Social Information Foraging Perspective.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Ling Li, Xiongfei Cao

IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2016

Gray links in the use of requirements traceability.

Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta

Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2016

On the impact of social network information diversity on end-user programming productivity: a foraging-theoretic study.

Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, Michael Wagner

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, 2016

Advancing Repeated Research in Requirements Engineering: A Theoretical Replication of Viewpoint Merging.

Nan Niu, Amy Koshoffer, Linda Newman, Charu Khatwani, Chatura Samarasinghe, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2016

Unified Profiling of Attackers via Domain Modeling.

Nesrin Hussein, Wentao Wang, Joseph L. Nedelec, Xuetao Wei, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2016

Pragmatic Software Reuse in Bioinformatics: How Can Social Network Information Help?

Xiaoyu Jin, Charu Khatwani, Nan Niu, Michael Wagner, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness, 2016

emphaSSL: Towards Emphasis as a Mechanism to Harden Networking Security in Android Apps.

Xuetao Wei, Michael Wolf, Lei Guo, Kyu Hyung Lee, Ming-Chun Huang, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2016

2015

On the Role of Structural Holes in Requirements Identification: An Exploratory Study on Open-Source Software Development.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Prachi Singhania, Wentao Wang

ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst., 2015

On the role of semantics in automated requirements tracing.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Requir. Eng., 2015

Leveraging topic modeling and part-of-speech tagging to support combinational creativity in requirements engineering.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Anas Mahmoud

Requir. Eng., 2015

Using i* for Transformational Creativity in Requirements Engineering.

Sushma Rayasam, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the Eighth International i*Workshop, 2015

Tagging in Assisted Tracing.

Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Hui Liu, Yuting Wu

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Software and Systems Traceability, 2015

2014

Analysis of Architecturally Significant Requirements for Enterprise Systems.

Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Zhendong Niu

IEEE Syst. J., 2014

A Systems Approach to Product Line Requirements Reuse.

Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Zhendong Niu, Mingzhou Jin, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

IEEE Syst. J., 2014

Visual requirements analytics: a framework and case study.

Sandeep Reddivari, Shirin Rad, Tanmay Bhowmik, Nisreen Cain, Nan Niu

Requir. Eng., 2014

Supporting requirements to code traceability through refactoring.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Requir. Eng., 2014

Traceability-enabled refactoring for managing just-in-time requirements.

Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Zhendong Niu

Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2014

Automated support for combinational creativity in requirements engineering.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, Juha Savolainen

Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2014

2013

Enterprise Information Systems Architecture - Analysis and Evaluation.

Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, Zhuming Bi

IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2013

Long-Term Product Line Sustainability with Planned Staged Investments.

Juha Savolainen, Nan Niu, Tommi Mikkonen, Thomas Fogdal

IEEE Softw., 2013

Conflict resolution support for parallel software development.

Nan Niu, Fangbo Yang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Sandeep Reddivari

IET Softw., 2013

Keeping requirements on track via visual analytics.

Nan Niu, Sandeep Reddivari, Zhangji Chen

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2013

Supporting requirements traceability through refactoring.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2013

Evaluating software clustering algorithms in the context of program comprehension.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2013

An Exploratory Case Study on Exploiting Aspect Orientation in Mobile Game Porting.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Vander Alves, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the Integration of Reusable Systems [extended versions of the best papers which were presented at IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration and IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration, 2013

Porting mobile games in an aspect-oriented way: An industrial case study.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Vander Alves, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the IEEE 14th International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration, 2013

Departures from optimality: understanding human analyst's information foraging in assisted requirements tracing.

Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, Zhangji Chen, Gary Bradshaw

Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2013

2012

Model-driven approach to developing domain functional requirements in software product lines.

Jianmei Guo, Yinglin Wang, Zheying Zhang, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Nan Niu

IET Softw., 2012

Research toward a Partially-Automated, and Crime Specific Digital Triage Process Model.

Gary Cantrell, David A. Dampier, Yoginder S. Dandass, Nan Niu, A. Chris Bogen

Comput. Inf. Sci., 2012

EA-tracer: identifying traceability links between code aspects and early aspects.

Alberto Sardinha, Yijun Yu, Nan Niu, Awais Rashid

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2012

ReCVisu: A tool for clustering-based visual exploration of requirements.

Sandeep Reddivari, Zhangji Chen, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 2012 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2012

Enhancing candidate link generation for requirements tracing: The cluster hypothesis revisited.

Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud

Proceedings of the 2012 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2012

A semantic relatedness approach for traceability link recovery.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu, Songhua Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2012

A cost-benefit approach to recommending conflict resolution for parallel software development.

Nan Niu, Fangbo Yang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Sandeep Reddivari

Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, 2012

A Framework for Examining Topical Locality in Object-Oriented Software.

Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Tanmay Bhowmik, Anas Mahmoud, Sandeep Reddivari

Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2012

2011

Using soft systems methodology to improve requirements practices: an exploratory case study.

Nan Niu, Alejandra Yepez Lopez, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

IET Softw., 2011

A case study of exploiting enterprise resource planning requirements.

Nan Niu, Mingzhou Jin, Jing-Ru C. Cheng

Enterp. Inf. Syst., 2011

TraCter: A tool for candidate traceability link clustering.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the RE 2011, 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Trento, Italy, August 29 2011, 2011

Faceted Navigation for Software Exploration.

Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, Xiaoyong Yang

Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2011

Multiple criteria decision support for software reuse: A case study.

Alejandra Yepez Lopez, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2011

Information foraging as a foundation for code navigation.

Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, Gary Bradshaw

Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, 2011

Source code indexing for automated tracing.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the TEFSE'11, 2011

Portability as an aspect: rethinking modularity in mobile game development.

Nan Niu, Vander Alves, Tanmay Bhowmik

Proceedings of the Companion Volume of the 10th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, 2011

Multi-level decomposition approach for problem solving and design in software engineering.

Ali Najafi, Nan Niu, Farzaneh Najafi

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, 2011

2010

Extractive Product Line Requirements Engineering.

Nan Niu

PhD thesis, 2010

Requirements engineering for software product lines: A systematic literature review.

Vander Alves, Nan Niu, Carina Frota Alves, George Valença

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2010

Soft Systems in Requirements Engineering: A Case Study.

Alejandra Yepez Lopez, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2010), Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA, July 1, 2010

An experimental investigation of reusable requirements retrieval.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2010

Variability Modeling for Product Line Viewpoints Integration.

Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2010

Using Semantics-Enabled Information Retrieval in Requirements Tracing: An Ongoing Experimental Investigation.

Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu

Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2010

Modular development and verification of domain requirements via model checking.

Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Edward B. Allen

Proceedings of the 48th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, 2010

2009

Aspects across Software Life Cycle: A Goal-Driven Approach.

Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, Bruno González-Baixauli, Neil A. Ernst, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite, John Mylopoulos

LNCS Trans. Aspect Oriented Softw. Dev., 2009

Concept analysis for product line requirements.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, 2009

2008

On-Demand Cluster Analysis for Product Line Functional Requirements.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the Software Product Lines, 12th International Conference, 2008

Extracting and Modeling Product Line Functional Requirements.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2008

Exploiting COTS-Based RE Methods: An Experience Report.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems, 2008

2007

Analysis of Early Aspects in Requirements Goal Models: A Concept-Driven Approach.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

LNCS Trans. Aspect Oriented Softw. Dev., 2007

So, You Think You Know Others' Goals? A Repertory Grid Study.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

IEEE Softw., 2007

Tracing and Validating Goal Aspects.

Yijun Yu, Nan Niu, Bruno González-Baixauli, William Candillon, John Mylopoulos, Steve M. Easterbrook, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite, Gilles Vanwormhoudt

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2007

A Taxonomy of Asymmetric Requirements Aspects.

Nan Niu, Steve Easterbrook, Yijun Yu

Proceedings of the Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions, 2007

2006

Managing Terminological Interference in Goal Models with Repertory Grid.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE 2006), 2006

2005

On the Use of Model Checking in Verification of Evolving Agile Software Frameworks: An Exploratory Case Study.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the Modelling, 2005

A Category-theoretic Approach to Syntactic Software Merging.

Nan Niu, Steve M. Easterbrook, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2005), 2005

2003

Automatic Extraction of Clusters from Hierarchical Clustering Representations.

Jörg Sander, Xuejie Qin, Zhiyong Lu, Nan Niu, Alex Kovarsky

Proceedings of the Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2003

2002

Understanding Web Usage for Dynamic Web-Site Adaptation: A Case Study.

Nan Niu, Eleni Stroulia, Mohammad El-Ramly

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2002), 2002