Actors, Roles and Coordinators - A Coordination Model for Open Distributed and Embedded Systems. - Shangping Ren; Yue Yu 002; Nianen Chen; Kevin Marth; Pierre-Etienne Poirot; Limin Shen (COORDINATION, 2006)

Using a role-based coordination model to achieve adaptive and quantifiable dependability for open distributed embedded systems. - Nianen Chen; Shangping Ren (OOPSLA Companion, 2006)

Building a Coordination Framework to Support Behavior-Based Adaptive Checkpointing for Open Distributed Embedded Systems. - Nianen Chen; Shangping Ren (HICSS, 2007)

A Workflow-Based Non-intrusive Approach for Enhancing the Survivability of Critical Infrastructures in Cyber Environment. - Kun Xiao; Nianen Chen; Shangping Ren; Limin Shen; Xianhe Sun; Kevin A. Kwiat; Michael Macalik (SESS@ICSE, 2007)

The role of roles in supporting reconfigurability and fault localizations for open distributed and embedded systems. - Shangping Ren; Yue Yu 002; Nianen Chen; Jeffrey J. P. Tsai; Kevin A. Kwiat (ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst., 2007)

A Role-Based Coordination Model and its Realization. - Nianen Chen; Yue Yu; Shangping Ren; Mattox Beckman (Informatica (Slovenia), 2008)

Architecture Support for Behavior-based Adaptive Checkpointing. - Nianen Chen; Shangping Ren (J. Softw., 2008)

Checkpoint Interval and System's Overall Quality for Message Logging-Based Rollback and Recovery in Distributed and Embedded Computing. - Nianen Chen; Yue Yu 002; Shangping Ren (ICESS, 2009)

Adaptive optimal checkpoint interval and its impact on system's overall quality in soft real-time applications. - Nianen Chen; Shangping Ren (SAC, 2009)

Profit and penalty aware (PP-aware) scheduling for tasks with variable task execution time. - Yue Yu 002; Shangping Ren; Nianen Chen; Xing Wang (SAC, 2010)