• To understand general self-managing behaviours for monitoring and diagnosing software failures; and more specifically:
  • To characterise self-healing mechanisms as monitoring and switching problems;
  • To provide requirements-driven self-configuring mechanisms for managing the high-variability software systems and business processes;
  • To argue the continuous satisfaction of evolving security requirements as a self-protecting mechanism through systematic argumentations and runtime verifications;
  • To achieve self-tuning by satisfying dynamic stakeholder goals and preferences through the PID controlled theory, which has been applied to Web systems.
• These self-managing mechanisms demand a systematic engineering infrastructure:
  • To support traceability from quality requirements to the software architectures across the development lifecycle through reverse engineering, software reuse, normalisation and aspect-orientation;
  • To visualise the bottlenecks of software systems and processes in terms of both productivity and performance.

Short papers, Workshops and Posters

1. Alberto Sardinha, Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, and Awais Rashid. "EA-Tracer: Identifying Traceability Links between Code Aspects and Early Aspects", In Proceedings of 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012), Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, March 2012
2. Yijun Yu and Helen Sharp. "Analysing Requirements in a Case Study of Pairing", The 1st International Agile Requirements Workshop (AREW'11), ECOOP, Lancaster, UK, accepted, 2011 (pdf).
3. Xin Peng, Zhenchang Xing, Xi Tan, Yijun Yu, Wenyun Zhao. Iterative Context-Aware Feature Location (NIER Track). The 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011 (New Ideas and Emerging Results Track), Accepted, 2011 (pdf).
4. Bihuan Chen, Xin Peng, Yijun Yu and Wenyun Zhao. "Survivability-Oriented Self-Tuning of Web Systems". The 20th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2011, poster, accepted.
5. Xin Peng, Bihuan Chen, Yijun Yu and Wenyun Zhao. "Self-Tuning of Software Systems through Goal-based Feedback Loop Control". The 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2010).
6. K. Beyls, E.H. D'Hollander, and Y. Yu. Visualization enables the programmer to reduce cache misses. In IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'02), pages 781-786, Nov 2002. best paper
7. N. Ernst, J. Mylopoulos, Y. Yu and T. Nguyen. Supporting requirements model evolution throughout the system life-cycle. In: RE'08. pp. 311-312.(pdf)
8. Y. Yu, H. Kaiya, H. Washizaki, Y. Xiong, Z. Hu and N. Yoshioka. Enforcing a Security Pattern in Stakeholder Goal Models. In: Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Quality of Protection, in conjunction with ACM CCS'08, 2008. PDF
9. J. Lu and Y. Yu. Web Service Search: Who, When, What, and How. In: Workshop on Human-friendly Service Description, Discovery and Matchmaking, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2007) 2007. (accepted)
10. J. Jurjens and Y. Yu. Tools for Model-based Security Engineering: Models vs. Code. In: the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'07) 2007. (pdf)
11. N. Niu, S. M. Easterbrook, and Y. Yu. A Taxonomy of Requirements Aspects. The 10th International Workshop On Early Aspects at the 6th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'07), Vancouver, Canada, March 12-16, 2007.
12. N.A. Ernst, Y. Yu and J. Mylopoulos. Visualising Non-Functional Requirements. International Workshop on Visualizing Non-Functional Requirements, Requirements Engineering Visualisation (REV'06) collocated at RE 2006, USA.
13. A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos, J. Mylopoulos and Y. Yu. Towards Requirements-Driven Autonomic Systems Design. Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS), ICSE 2005 workshop. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
14. C. Zhang, H.-A. Jacobsen and Y. Yu. Linking Goals to Aspects. In: Early Aspects (EA) workshop at AOSD'05, 2005.
15. J. Lu, Y. Yu, J. Mylopoulos. A Lightweight Approach to Semantic Web Service Synthesis, International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI'05), Tokyo, 2005. (30% = 14/47)
16. Q Zhang, H.  Chen, Y.  Yu, Z.  Xie and B.  Shi. Dynamically Self-Organized Service Composition in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, TES-VLDB'04, LNCS 3324:95-106, 2005. Toronto, Canada.
17. Y. Yu, J. Mylopoulos., E. Yu, J.C.S.P. Leite, L. Liu, E.H. D'Hollander. Software refactoring guided by multiple soft-goals. In Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Refactoring: Achievements, Challenges, and Effects (REFACE'03), in conjunction with the 10th WCRE conference 2003, pages 7-11, Victoria, Canada, Nov 13-16, 2003.

Thesis

1. Y. Yu. Development of an Interactive Parallel Programming Environment. PhD thesis, Fudan University, 1998, in Chinese.
2. Y. Yu. Object-oriented development of graphic editors. Master Thesis, Fudan University, 1995, in Chinese.

Technical reports

1. Y. Yu, E.H. D'Hollander. YAXX - an YAcc eXtension to Xml. User manual, ELIS, Gent University, 2002.