Program
The symposium program is also available as a PDF here.
Wednesday, May 13 2009
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 – 14:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
14:30 – 16:00 | Keynote Chair: Massimiliano di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Model-driven Development and Search-based Software Engineering: An Opportunity for Research Synergy Lionel C. Briand, Simula Research Lab and University of Oslo, Norway |
16:00 | Refreshments |
16:30 – 18:00 | Session 1 – Testing and Defect Prediction Chair: Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Search-Based Testing of Ajax Web Applications Alessandro Marchetto and Paolo Tonella An Improved Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing Brady J. Garvin, Myra B. Cohen and Matthew B. Dwyer Evolution and Search Based Metrics to Improve Defects Prediction Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Giuliano Antoniol and Philippe Galinier |
19:00 | Dinner |
Drinks in the bar, sponsored by Berner and Mattner, Germany |
Thursday, May 14 2009
08:15 | Breakfast |
09:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Chair:Simon Poulding, University of York Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
10:30 | Refreshments |
11:00 – 12:30 | Session 2 – PhD Student Track Chair: Myra B. Cohen, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA Search-Based Prediction of Fault Count Data Wasif Afzal, Richard Torkar and Robert Feldt On Search Based Software Evolution Andrea Arcuri Local Search-Based Refactoring as Graph Transformation Fawad Qayum and Reiko Heckel |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3 – Software Evolution Chair: Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy A Study of the Multi-Objective Next Release Problem J. J. Durillo, Y. Zhang, E. Alba and A. J. Nebro Dynamic Architectural Selection: A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach Dongsun Kim and Sooyong Park On the Use of Discretized Source Code Metrics for Author Identification Maxim Shevertalov, Jay Kothari, Edward Stehle and Spiros Mancoridis |
15:30 | Refreshments |
16:00 – 18:00 | Software Engineering Experts' Panel – The Status and Future of SBSE in the Software Engineering Community Chair: Mark Harman, King's College London, UK Norman Fenton, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK Paola Inverardi, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia, USA Ian Sommerville, University of St Andrews, UK |
19:00 | Dinner |
Drinks in the bar, sponsored by Sogeti, UK |
Friday, May 15 2009
08:00 | Breakfast |
08:45 – 10:15 | Keynote Chair: Myra B. Cohen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA How Can Metaheuristics Help Software Engineers Enrique Alba, Universidad de Málaga, Spain |
10:15 | Refreshments |
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10:45 – 12:15 |
Session 4 – Short Papers Chair: Iain Bate, University of York, UK Search-Based Testing with in-the-loop Systems Joachim Wegener and Peter M. Kruse A Testability Transformation Approach for State-Based Programs AbdulSalam Kalaji, Robert M. Hierons and Stephen Swift Searching for Rules to find Defective Modules in Unbalanced Datasets D. Rodríguez, J.C. Riquelme, R. Ruiz, and J.S. Aguilar-Ruiz Formal model simulation: can it be guided? Thang H. Bui and Albert Nymeyer How can optimization models support the maintenance of component-based software? Vittorio Cortellessa and Pasqualina Potena |
12:15 | Lunch |
13:00 – 14:30 | Session 5 – Testing Chair: Phil McMinn, University of Sheffield, UK WCET Analysis of Modern Processors Using Multi-Criteria Optimisation Usman Khan and Iain Bate Full Theoretical Runtime Analysis of Alternating Variable Method on the Triangle Classification Problem Andrea Arcuri Widening the Goal Posts: Program Stretching to Aid Search Based Software Testing Kamran Ghani and John A. Clark |
14:30 | Refreshments |
15:00 – 16:00 | Session 6 – Fast Abstracts Chair: Mark Harman, King’s College London, UK Guiding the Search-Based Testing via Dominances vs. Control Dependencies Ahmed S. Ghiduk A Hybrid Heuristic Approach for Scheduling Bug Fix Tasks to Software Fernando Netto, Marcio Barros and Adriana Alvim Ant Colony Optimization for Requirement selection in Incremental Software development José del Sagrado and Isabel María del Águila Carolyn Mair and Martin Shepperd Using computational search to generate 2-way covering array Changhai Nie, Hareton Leung and Baowen Xu |
16:00 – 16:15 | Concluding Remarks |
