Bibliography for Nan Niu

Google Scholar Profile [h-index: 37; total citations: 3,966]

DBLP List [full research papers at ICSE (4), ESEC/FSE (5), RE (13)]

    Note that student authors are underlined.

• Journals

1. Yilong Yang, Yibo Liu, Tianshu Bao, Weiru Wang, Nan Niu, and Yongfeng Yin, DeepOCL: A Deep Neural Network for Object Constraint Language Generation from Unrestricted Nature Language. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, accepted ().

2. Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu, Yilong Yang, Matthew Van Doren, and Reese Johnson, Deep Learning's Fitness for Purpose: A Transformation Problem Frame's Perspective. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, June 2023, pp. 343-354, ().

3. Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Xiaoqing Luo, Zhihao Zhu, Xiaye Chi, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Yamin Hu, Pan Bian, and Lu Zhang, BugBuilder: An Automated Approach to Building Bug Repository. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, April 2023, pp. 1443-1463, IEEE (). ()

4. Jianzhang Zhang, Jinping Hua, Nan Niu, Sisi Chen, Juha Savolainen, and Chuang Liu, Exploring Privacy Requirements Gap between Developers and End Users. Information and Software Technology, Volume: 154, February 2023, pp. 107090:1- 107090:5, Elsevier (). ()

5. Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, and Zhi Jin, Testing Software's Changing Features with Environment-Driven Abstraction Identification. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, December 2022, pp. 405-427, Springer (). ()

6. Fangwei Chen, Li Zhang, Xiaoli Lian, and Nan Niu, Automatically Recognizing the Semantic Elements from UML Class Diagram Images. Journal of Systems and Software, Volume: 193, November 2022, pp. 111431:1-111431:19, Elsevier (). ()

7. Wentao Wang, Faryn Dumont, Nan Niu, and Glen Horton, Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities via Requirements Dependency Analysis IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume: 48, Issue: 5, May 2022, pp. 1665-1675, IEEE (). ()

8. Hui Liu, Mingzhu Shen, Jiaqi Zhu, Nan Niu, Ge Li, and Lu Zhang, Deep Learning Based Program Generation from Requirements Text: Are We There Yet? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, April 2022, pp. 1268-1289, IEEE (). ()

9. Hemanth Gudaparthi, Prudhviraj Naidu, and Nan Niu, Metamorphic Testing of Image Classification and Consistency Analysis Using Clustering International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, 2022, Article: 90, IGI Publishing ().

10. Inam Illahi, Hui Liu, Qasim Umer, and Nan Niu, Machine Learning based Success Prediction for Crowdsourcing Software Projects. Journal of Systems and Software, Volume: 178, August 2021, pp. 110965:1-110965:13, Elsevier (). ().

11. Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, and Nan Niu, Unit and Regression Tests of Scientific Software: A Study on SWMM. Journal of Computational Science, Volume: 53, July 2021, pp. 101347:1-101347:13, Elsevier (). ().

12. Jie Wu, Yingbo Wu, Nan Niu, and Min Zhou, MHCPDP: Multi-Source Heterogeneous Cross-Project Defect Prediction via Multi-Source Transfer Learning and Autoencoder. Software Quality Journal, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, June 2021, pp. 405-430, Springer (). ()

13. Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Zedong Peng, and Nan Niu, Discovering Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software From User Forums. Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, March/April 2021, pp. 65-72, IEEE (). ()

14. Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, and Nan Niu, Scientific Software Testing Goes Serverless: Creating and Invoking Metamorphic Functions. IEEE Software, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, January/February 2021, pp. 61-67, IEEE (). ()

15. Ally S. Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Qasim Umer, and Zhendong Niu, Feature Requests-Based Recommendation of Software Refactorings. Empirical Software Engineering, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, September 2020, pp. 4315-4347, Springer (). ()

16. Fabiano Dalpiaz and Nan Niu, Requirements Engineering in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Software, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, July/August 2020, pp. 7-10, IEEE (). ()

17. Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, and Nan Niu, Exploratory Metamorphic Testing for Scientific Software. Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, March/April 2020, pp. 78-87, IEEE (). ()

18. Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Mounifah Alenazi, Juha Savolainen, Zhendong Niu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, and Li Da Xu, Complementarity in Requirements Tracing. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, April 2020, pp. 1395-1404, IEEE (). ()

19. Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Mounifah Alenazi, and Li Da Xu, In-Place Traceability for Automated Production Systems: A Survey of PLC and SysML Tools. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume: 15, Issue: 6, June 2019, pp. 3155-3162, IEEE (). ()

20. Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Mona Assarandarban, Li Da Xu, Juha Savolainen, and Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Requirements Socio-Technical Graphs for Managing Practitioners' Traceability Questions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, December 2018, pp. 1152-1162, IEEE (). ()

21. Ally S. Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Zhendong Niu, Wentao Wang, and Nan Niu, Recommending Refactoring Solutions Based on Traceability and Code Metrics. IEEE Access, Volume: 6, 2018, pp. 49460-49475, IEEE (). ()

22. Nan Niu, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Xavier Franch, Jari Partanen, and Juha Savolainen, Requirements Engineering and Continuous Deployment. IEEE Software, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, March/April 2018, pp. 86-90, IEEE (). ()

23. Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, and Zhendong Niu, Automatically Tracing Dependability Requirements via Term-Based Relevance Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, January 2018, pp. 342-349, IEEE (). ()

24. Charu Khatwani, Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, Amy Koshoffer, Linda Newman, and Juha Savolainen, Advancing Viewpoint Merging in Requirements Engineering: A Theoretical Replication and Explanatory Study. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, September 2017, pp. 317-338, Springer (). ()

25. Tassio Vale, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Vander Alves, Uirá Kulesza, Nan Niu, and Ricardo de Lima, Software Product Lines Traceability: A Systematic Mapping Study. Information and Software Technology, Volume: 84, April 2017, pp. 1-18, Elsevier (). ()

26. Sandeep Reddivari, Asai Asaithambi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Li Da Xu, and Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Ethnographic Field Work in Requirements Engineering. Enterprise Information Systems, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, 2017, pp. 137-159, Taylor & Francis ().

27. Nan Niu, Xiaoyu Jin, Zhendong Niu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Ling Li, and Mikhail Yu Kataev, A Clustering-Based Approach to Enriching Code Foraging Environment. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Volume: 46, Issue: 9, September 2016, pp. 1962-1973, IEEE (). ()

28. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Ling Li, and Xiongfei Cao, Optimal Group Size for Software Change Tasks: A Social Information Foraging Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Volume: 46, Issue: 8, August 2016, pp. 1784-1795, IEEE (). ()

29. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Prachi Singhania, and Wentao Wang, On the Role of Structural Holes in Requirements Identification: An Exploratory Study on Open-Source Software Development. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, September 2015, Article 10, ACM (). ()

30. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, On the Role of Semantics in Automated Requirements Tracing. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, September 2015, pp. 281-300, Springer (). ()

31. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, and Anas Mahmoud, Leveraging Topic Modeling and Part-of-Speech Tagging to Support Combinational Creativity in Requirements Engineering. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, September 2015, pp. 253-280, Springer (). ()

32. Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, and Zhendong Niu, Analysis of Architecturally Significant Requirements for Enterprise Systems. IEEE Systems Journal, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, September 2014, pp. 850-857, IEEE (). ()

33. Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Zhendong Niu, Mingzhou Jin, and Jing-Ru C. Cheng, A Systems Approach to Product Line Requirements Reuse. IEEE Systems Journal, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, September 2014, pp. 827-836, IEEE (). ()

34. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability through Refactoring. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, September 2014, pp. 309-329, Springer (). ()

35. Sandeep Reddivari, Shirin Rad, Tanmay Bhowmik, Nisreen Cain, and Nan Niu, Visual Requirements Analytics: A Framework and Case Study. Requirements Engineering, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, September 2014, pp. 257-279, Springer (). ()

36. Juha Savolainen, Nan Niu, Tommi Mikkonen, and Thomas Fogdal, Long-Term Product Line Sustainability through Planned Staged Investments. IEEE Software, Volume: 30, Issue: 6, November/December 2013, pp. 63-69, IEEE (). ()

37. Nan Niu, Li Da Xu, and Zhuming Bi, Enterprise Information Systems Architecture -- Analysis and Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, November 2013, pp. 2147-2154, IEEE (). ()

38. Nan Niu, Fangbo Yang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, and Sandeep Reddivari, Conflict Resolution Support for Parallel Software Development. IET Software, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, February, 2013, pp. 1-11, IET (). ()

39. George Valença, Carina Alves, Vander Alves, and Nan Niu, A Systematic Mapping Study on Business Process Variability. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, February 2013, pp. 1-21 (IJCSIT link). ()

40. Shahab Salehghaffari, Nan Niu, and Sandeep Reddivari, An Evidence-Based Software Engineering Evaluation Approach. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, January 2013, pp. 51-55 (IJACSci link). ()

41. Jianmei Guo, Yinglin Wang, Zheying Zhang, Jyrki Nummenmaa, and Nan Niu, Model-Driven Approach to Developing Domain Functional Requirements in Software Product Lines. IET Software, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, August 2012, pp. 391-401, IET (). ()

42. Gary Cantrell, David Dampier, Yoginder Dandass, Nan Niu, and Chris Bogen, Research toward a Partially-Automated, and Crime Specific Digital Triage Process Model. Computer and Information Science, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, March 2012, pp. 29-38, CCSE ().

43. Nan Niu, Alejandra Yepez Lopez, and Jing-Ru C. Cheng, Using Soft Systems Methodology to Improve Requirements Practices: An Exploratory Case Study. IET Software, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, December 2011, pp. 487-495, IET (). ()

44. Nan Niu, Mingzhou Jin, and Jing-Ru C. Cheng, A Case Study of Exploiting Enterprise Resource Planning Requirements. Enterprise Information Systems, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, May 2011, pp. 183-206, Taylor & Francis (). ()

45. Vander Alves, Nan Niu, Carina Alves, and George Valença, Requirements Engineering for Software Product Lines: A Systematic Literature Review. Information and Software Technology, Volume: 52, Issue: 8, August 2010, pp. 806-820, Elsevier (). ()

46. Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, Bruno González-Baixauli, Neil Ernst, Julio Leite, and John Mylopoulos, Aspects across Software Life Cycle: A Goal-Driven Approach. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VI, 2009, pp. 83-110, Springer (). ()

47. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, Analysis of Early Aspects in Requirements Goal Models: A Concept-Driven Approach. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development III, 2007, pp. 40-72, Springer (). ()

48. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, So, You Think You Know Others' Goals? A Repertory Grid Study. IEEE Software, Volume:24, Issue:2, March/April 2007, pp. 53-61, IEEE Press (). ()

• Refereed Conferences

1. Chunhao Dong, Yanjie Jiang, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, and Hui Liu, "", 46^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-20, 2024, (accepted).

2. Bo Liu, Hui Liu, Guangjie Li, Nan Niu, Zimao Xu, Yifan Wang, Yunni Xia, Yuxia Zhang, and Yanjie Jiang, "", 31^st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 3-9, 2023, pp. 908-920, ACM Press (127 / 465 = 27% acceptance rate). ()

3. Jianzhang Zhang, Yiyang Chen, Chuang Liu, Nan Niu, and Yinglin Wang, "", 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Next Generation Networks (), Hangzhou, China, November 17-18, 2023, IEEE Press. ()

4. Bo Liu, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Guangjie Li, and Yanjie Jiang, "", 38^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023, pp. 1615-1627, IEEE Press (134 / 630 = 21% acceptance rate). ()

5. Hemanth Gudaparthi, Nan Niu, Boyang Wang, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Jianzhang Zhang, Juha Savolainen, Glen Horton, Sean Crowe, Thomas Scherz, and Lisa Haitz, "", 31^st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Hannover, Germany, September 4-8, 2023, pp. 134-145, IEEE Press (15 / 71 = 21% acceptance rate). ()

6. Jianzhang Zhang, Sisi Chen, Jinping Hua, Nan Niu, and Chuang Liu, "", 30^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Melbourne, Australia, August 15-19, 2022, pp. 51-63, IEEE Press (16 / 62 = 26% acceptance rate). ()

7. Haipeng Li, Nan Niu, and Boyang Wang, "", 12^th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (), Baltimore-Washington DC Area, USA, April 25-27, 2022, pp. 252-263, ACM Press. (26 / 112 = 23% acceptance rate).

8. Aurek Chattopadhyay, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson, and Nan Niu, "", 28^th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (), Aston, Birmingham, UK, March 21-24, 2022, CEUR Proceedings. ()

9.  Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, and Zhi Jin, "", 29^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), South Bend, IN, USA, September 20-24, 2021, pp. 245-256, IEEE Press (23 / 79 = 29% acceptance rate). () Best Research Paper

10. Zedong Peng and Nan Niu, "" (tool demo paper), 29^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), South Bend, IN, USA, September 20-24, 2021, pp. 420-421, IEEE Press ()

11.  Zedong Peng, Upulee Kanewala, Nan Niu, "", 15^th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (), Bari, Italy, October 11-15, 2021, pp. 28:1-28:6, ACM Press (12 / 36 = 33% acceptance rate). () Best Emerging Results and Vision Paper

12. Nicholas Maltbie, Nan Niu, Matthew Van Doren, and Reese Johnson, "", 29^th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (), Athens, Greece, August 23-28, 2021, pp. 1032-1044, ACM Press. (97 / 396 = 24% acceptance rate). ()

13. Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, Yuhai Zhao, and Lu Zhang, "", 29^th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (), Athens, Greece, August 23-28, 2021, pp. 578-589, ACM Press. (97 / 396 = 24% acceptance rate). ()

14. Lin Shi, Xiao Chen, Ye Yang, Hanzhi Jiang, Ziyou Jiang, Nan Niu, and Qing Wang, "", 29^th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (), Athens, Greece, August 23-28, 2021, pp. 391-403, ACM Press. (97 / 396 = 24% acceptance rate). ()

15. Tyler Westland, Nan Niu, Rashmi Jha, David Kapp, and Temesguen Kebede, "", IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (), Held Virtually, July 26-28, 2021, pp. 141-146, IEEE Press (88 / 177 = 49.7% acceptance rate). ()

16. Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Lu Zhang, and Yamin Hu, "", 43^rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), Madrid, Spain, May 22-30, 2021, pp. 686-698, IEEE Press. (138 / 615 = 22% acceptance rate). ()

17. Xuanyi Lin, Zedong Peng, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, and Hui Liu, "", 43^rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), Madrid, Spain, May 22-30, 2021, pp. 254-255, IEEE Press. ()

18. Nan Niu, Logan Johnson, and Christopher Diltz, "", 19^th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (), Hammamet, Tunisia, December 2-4, 2020, pp. 19-34, Springer (). (16 / 60 = 27% acceptance rate). ()

19. Tyler Westland, Nan Niu, Rashmi Jha, David Kapp, and Temesguen Kebede, "", 21^st IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 11-13, 2020, pp. 37-44, IEEE Press (28% acceptance rate). ()

20. Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, and Juha Savolainen, "", 42^nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), Seoul, South Korea, June 27-July 19, 2020, pp. 848-860, ACM Press. (129 / 617 = 21% acceptance rate). ()

21. Hemanth Gudaparthi, Reese Johnson, Harshitha Challa, and Nan Niu, "", 42^nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), Seoul, South Korea, June 27-July 19, 2020, pp. 35-38. ACM Press. (12 / 36 = 33% acceptance rate). ()

22. Tanmay Bhowmik, Surendra Raju Chekuri, Anh Quoc Do, Wentao Wang, and Nan Niu, "", 27^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Jeju Island, South Korea, September 23–27, 2019, pp. 75-85. IEEE Press. (22 / 77 = 29% acceptance rate). ()

23. Ally Nyamawe, Hui Liu, Nan Niu, Qasim Umer, and Zhendong Niu, "", 27^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Jeju Island, South Korea, September 23–27, 2019, pp. 187-198. IEEE Press. (accepted; 22 / 77 = 29% acceptance rate). ()

24. Shangwen Wang, Xiaoguang Mao, Nan Niu, Xin Yi, and Anbang Guo, "", 31^st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (), Lisbon, Portugal, July 10–12, 2019, pp. 713-716. KSI Press. (89 / 225 = 40% acceptance rate). ()

25. Hao Liu, Boyang Wang, Nan Niu, Shomir Wilson, and Xuetao Wei, "", 7^th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (), Washington, DC, USA, June 10–12, 2019, pp. 109-117. IEEE Press. (32 / 115 = 28% acceptance rate). ()

26. Darius Cepulis and Nan Niu, "", IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (), Lisbon, Portugal, October 1–4, 2018, pp. 17-21. IEEE Press. (20 / 66 = 30% acceptance rate) ()

27. Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Hui Liu, and Zhendong Niu, "", 26^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Banff, Canada, August 20-24, 2018, pp. 40-51, IEEE Press. (24 / 90 = 27% acceptance rate) ()

28. Mounifah Alenazi, Deepak Reddy, and Nan Niu, "", 17^th International Conference on Software Reuse (), Madrid, Spain, May 21-23, 2018, pp. 121-136, Springer (). (9 / 29 = 31% acceptance rate). ()

29. Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, and Michael Wagner, "", IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (), Raleigh, NC, USA, October 11–14, 2017, pp. 31-35. IEEE Press. (16 / 51 = 31% acceptance rate) ()

30. Chaitra Thota, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, and Carla C. Purdy, "", 124^th ASEE Annual Conference (), Columbus, OH, USA, June 25-28, 2017, Article No. 18053. ()

31. Xuetao Wei, Michael Wolf, Lei Guo, Kyu Hyung Lee, Ming-Chun Huang, and Nan Niu, "", IEEE Global Communications Conference (), Washington, DC, USA, December 4-8, 2016, pp. 1-6. IEEE Press. (910 / 2497 = 37% acceptance rate) ()

32. Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, and Arushi Gupta, "", 24^th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (), Seattle, WA, USA, November 13-18, 2016, pp. 384-395. ACM Press. (74 / 273 = 27% acceptance rate) ()

33.  Nan Niu, Amy Koshoffer, Linda Newman, Charu Khatwani, Chatura Samarasinghe, and Juha Savolainen, "", 24^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Beijing, China, September 12-16, 2016, pp. 186-195, IEEE Press. (22 / 79 = 28% acceptance rate) () Best Research Paper

34. Vignesh Subbian, Nan Niu, and Carla C. Purdy, "", 123^rd ASEE Annual Conference (), New Orleans, LA, USA, June 26-29, 2016, Article No. 16425. ()

35. Xiaoyu Jin, Charu Khatwani, Nan Niu, Michael Wagner, and Juha Savolainen, "", 15^th International Conference on Software Reuse (), Limassol, Cyprus, June 5-7, 2016, pp. 247-264, Springer (). (21 / 51 = 41% acceptance rate). ()

36. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, and Juha Savolainen, "", 22^nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Karlskrona, Sweden, August 25-29, 2014, pp. 243-252, IEEE Press. (31 / 115 = 27% acceptance rate). ()

37. Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, and Zhendong Niu, "", 22^nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Karlskrona, Sweden, August 25-29, 2014, pp. 133-142, IEEE Press. (31 / 115 = 27% acceptance rate). ()

38. Zadia Codabux, Byron Williams, and Nan Niu, "", 14^th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-24, 2014, pp. 172-178, World-Comp Press. ()

39. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, and Donna Reese, "", 121^st ASEE Annual Conference (), Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 15-18, 2014, Article No. 9340. ()

40. Tanmay Bhowmik, Vander Alves, and Nan Niu, "", 14^th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 14-16, 2013, pp. 458-465, IEEE Press. (26% acceptance rate). ()

41. Nan Niu, Sandeep Reddivari, and Zhangji Chen, "", 21^st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-19, 2013, pp. 205-214, IEEE Press. (21 / 114 = 18% acceptance rate). ()

42. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "", 21^st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-19, 2013, pp. 32-41, IEEE Press. (21 / 114 = 18% acceptance rate). ()

43. Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, Zhangji Chen, and Gary Bradshaw, "", 35^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (), San Francisco, California, USA, May 18-26, 2013, pp. 572-581, IEEE Press. (85 / 461 = 18% acceptance rate). ()

44. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "", 21^st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (), San Francisco, California, USA, May 20-21, 2013, pp. 162-171, IEEE Press. (19 / 63 = 30% acceptance rate). ()

45. Nan Niu and Anas Mahmoud, "", 20^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 24-28, 2012, pp. 81-90, IEEE Press (26 / 106 = 24% acceptance rate). ()

46. Sandeep Reddivari, Zhangji Chen, and Nan Niu, "" (tool demo paper), 20^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 24-28, 2012, pp. 327-328, IEEE Press. ()

47. Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, Tanmay Bhowmik, Anas Mahmoud, and Sandeep Reddivari, "", 36^th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (), Izmir, Turkey, July 16-20, 2012, pp. 219-224, IEEE Press (72 / 237 = 30% acceptance rate). ()

48. Anas Mahmoud, Nan Niu, and Songhua Xu, "", 20^th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (), Passau, Germany, June 11-13, 2012, pp. 183-192, IEEE Press (21 / 51 = 41% acceptance rate). ()

49. Kendra Carr and Nan Niu, "", ASEE Southeastern Section Conference (), Starkville, Mississippi, USA, April 1-3, 2012, Article No. 544. ()

50. Alberto Sardinha, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, and Awais Rashid, "" (RE Track), 27^th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (), Riva del Garda, Italy, March 26-30, 2012, pp. 1035-1042, ACM Press. ()

51. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "" (tool demo paper), 19^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Trento, Italy, August 29 - September 2, 2011, pp. 335-336, IEEE Press. ()

52. Alejandra Yepez Lopez and Nan Niu, "", 12^th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 3-5, 2011, pp. 200-205, IEEE Press (29% acceptance rate). ()

53. Nan Niu, Donna Reese, Kui Xie, and Chris Smith, "", 118^th ASEE Annual Conference (), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 26-29, 2011, Article No. AC 2011-322. ()

54. Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, and Xiaoyong Yang, "", 19^th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (), Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 193-196, IEEE Press (19 / 76 = 25% acceptance rate). ()

55. Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, and Gary Bradshaw, "", 33^rd International Conference on Software Engineering (), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 21-28, 2011, pp. 816-819, ACM Press (46 / 198 = 23% acceptance rate). ()

56. Ali Najafi, Nan Niu, and Farzaneh Najafi, "", 49^th ACM Southeast Conference (), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA, March 24-26, 2011, pp. 249-254, ACM Press. ()

57. Nan Niu, Vander Alves, and Tanmay Bhowmik, "", 10^th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (), Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, March 21-25, 2011, pp. 3-4, ACM Press. ()

58. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "", 11^th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4-6, 2010, pp. 330-335, IEEE Press (35 / 118 = 30% acceptance rate). ()

59. Nan Niu, Juha Savolainen, and Yijun Yu, "", 34^th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (), Seoul, Korea, July 19-23, 2010, pp. 337-346, IEEE Press (39 / 193 = 20% acceptance rate). ()

60. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "" (fast abstract), 34^th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (), Seoul, Korea, July 19-23, 2010, pp. 246-247, IEEE Press. ()

61. Alejandra Yepez Lopez and Nan Niu, "", 22^nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (), San Francisco Bay, California, USA, July 1-3, 2010, pp. 38-41, KSI Press. (84 / 253 = 33% acceptance rate). ()

62. Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, and Edward B. Allen, "", 48^th ACM Southeast Conference (), Oxford, Mississippi, USA, April 15-17, 2010, Article No. 58, ACM Press. ()

63. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 8^th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, March 2-6, 2009, pp. 137-148, ACM Press. (19 / 86 = 22% acceptance rate). ()

64.  Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 16^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Barcelona, Spain, September 8-12, 2008, pp. 155-164, IEEE Press (18 / 164 = 11% acceptance rate). () Most Influential Paper

65. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 12^th Software Product Line Conference (), Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008, pp. 87-96, IEEE Press (33 / 110 = 30% acceptance rate). ()

66. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 10^th International Conference on Software Reuse (), Beijing, China, May 25-29, 2008, pp. 212-216, Springer (). (28 / 103 = 27% acceptance rate). ()

67. Yijun Yu, Nan Niu, Bruno González-Baixauli, William Candillon, John Mylopoulos, Steve Easterbrook, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, and Gilles Vanwormhoudt, "", 15^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), New Delhi, India, Oct 15-19, 2007, pp. 53-56, IEEE Press (26 / 200 = 13% acceptance rate). ()

68. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 14^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, September 11-15, 2006, pp. 296-299, IEEE Press (28 / 179 = 15% acceptance rate). ()

69. Nan Niu, Steve Easterbrook, and Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, "", 21^st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (), Budapest, Hungary, September 25-30, 2005, pp. 197-206, IEEE Press (55 / 180 = 30% acceptance rate). ()

70. Jörg Sander, Xuejie Qin, Zhiyong Lu, Nan Niu, and Alex Kovarsky, "", 7^th Pacific-Area Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (), Seoul, Korea, April 30 - May 2, 2003, pp. 75-87, Springer Verlag (38 / 215 = 17% acceptance rate). ()

• Refereed Workshops

1. Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Sreelekhaa Nagamalli Santhoshkumar, Nan Niu, and Upulee Kanewala, "", International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with International Conference on Computational Science (), London, UK, June 21-23, 2022, pp. 503-516, Springer (). ()

2. Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Nan Niu, and Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, "", International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with International Conference on Computational Science (), Krakow, Poland, June 16-18, 2021, pp. 375-389, Springer (). ()

3. Aurek Chattopadhyay, Nan Niu, Zedong Peng, and Jianzhang Zhang, "", Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (), in affiliation with International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (), Held Virtually, April 12, 2021, CEUR Proceedings. ()

4. Harshitha Challa, Nan Niu, and Reese Johnson, "", 7^th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering (), in affiliation with the 28^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Zurich, Switzerland, September 1, 2020, pp. 61-69, IEEE Press. ()

5. Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, and Nan Niu, "", International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with International Conference on Computational Science (), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 3-5, 2020, pp. 413-427, Springer (). ()

6. Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, and Juha Savolainen,"", 9^th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (), in affiliation with the 27^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Jeju Island, South Korea, September 24, 2019, pp. 14-23, IEEE Press. ()

7. Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, and Nan Niu, "", 14^th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with the 41^st International Conference on Software Engineering (), Montreal, Canada, May 28, 2019, pp. 47-50, ACM Press. ()

8. Wentao Wang, Arushi Gupta, and Nan Niu,"", 1^st International Workshop on Quality Requirements in Agile Projects (), in affiliation with the 26^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Banff, Canada, August 21, 2018, pp. 6-9, IEEE Press. ()

9. Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, and Juha Savolainen,"", 8^th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (), in affiliation with the 26^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Banff, Canada, August 20, 2018, pp. 46-55, IEEE Press. ()

10. Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, and Nan Niu, "", 13^th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with the 40^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2, 2018, pp. 1-8, ACM Press. ()

11. Mounifah Alenazi, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, and Arushi Gupta,"", 7^th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (), in affiliation with the 25^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Lisbon, Portugal, September 4, 2017, pp. 51-55, IEEE Press. ()

12. Suraj Kamble, Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, and Michelle Simon, "", 12^th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (), in affiliation with the 39^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22, 2017, pp. 9-12, IEEE Press. ()

13. Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu, and Michael Wagner, "", 8^th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (), in affiliation with the 24^th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (), Seattle, WA, USA, November 14, 2016, pp. 15-21, ACM Press. ()

14. Nesrin Hussein, Wentao Wang, Joseph L. Nedelec, Xuetao Wei, and Nan Niu, "", 1^st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Investigating and Countering Crime (), in affiliation with the 24^th International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Beijing, China, September 12, 2016, pp. 98-101, IEEE Press. ()

15. Sushma Rayasam and Nan Niu, "", 8^th International i* Workshop (), in affiliation with the 23^rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (), Ottawa, Canada, August 24-25, 2015, pp. 67-72, CEUR (). ()

16. Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Hui Liu, and Yuting Wu, "", 8^th International Symposium on Software and Systems Traceability (), Florence, Italy, May 17, 2015, pp. 8-14, IEEE Press. ()

17. Nan Niu, Sandeep Reddivari, Anas Mahmoud, Tanmay Bhowmik, and Songhua Xu, "", 4^th International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools, and Evaluation (), in affiliation with the 34^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Zurich, Switzerland, June 5, 2012, pp. 17-20, IEEE Press. ()

18. Nan Niu, Fangbo Yang, Jing-Ru C. Cheng, and Sandeep Reddivari, "", 3^rd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (), in affiliation with the 34^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Zurich, Switzerland, June 4, 2012, pp. 21-25, IEEE Press. ()

19. Anas Mahmoud and Nan Niu, "", 6^th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (), in affiliation with the 33^rd International Conference on Software Engineering (), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 23, 2011, pp. 3-9, ACM Press. ()

20. Nan Niu, Steve Easterbrook, and Yijun Yu, "", 10^th International Workshop on Early Aspects (), in affiliation with the 6^th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 13, 2007, pp. 1-18, Springer (). ()

21. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", Early Aspects at ICSE: Workshop in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design (), in affiliation with the 28^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Shanghai, China, May 21, 2006, pp. 35-41, ACM Press. ()

22. Greg Brunet, Marsha Chechik, Steve Easterbrook, Shiva Nejati, Nan Niu, and Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, "", 1^st International Workshop on Global integrated Model Management (), in affiliation with the 28^th International Conference on Software Engineering (), Shanghai, China, May 22, 2006, pp. 5-11, ACM Press. ()

23. Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook, "", 3^rd International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems (), in affiliation with the 7^th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (), Miami, Florida, USA, May 24-25, 2005, pp. 115-117, INSTICC Press. ()

24.  Nan Niu, Eleni Stroulia, and Mohammad El-Ramly, "", 4^th International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (), in affiliation with the 18^th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (), Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Oct 2, 2002, pp. 53-62, IEEE Press. () Best Research Paper

• Theses

1. Ph.D. Thesis, "", Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Summer 2009.

2. Ph.D. Research Paper, "", Doctoral Symposium, 15^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (), New Delhi, India, Oct 15, 2007.

3. M.Sc. Thesis, "", Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Fall, 2003. () 

4. B.Eng. Thesis, "A Study of Geographic Information Systems and Their Applications to Computer Aided Decision-Making Systems", Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Summer, 1999.