Program

The symposium program is also available as a PDF here.

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

09:00 – 10:30

Welcome

Keynote – Better Together: Hybridized Search Based Techniques
Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

10:30

Refreshments

11:00 – 12:30

Session 1 – Landscapes and Representation

Applying Elementary Landscape Analysis to Search-Based Software Engineering
Guanzhou Lu, Rami Bahsoon and Xin Yao

How Does Program Structure Impact the Effectiveness of the Crossover Operator in Evolutionary Testing?
Phil McMinn

A Novel Mask-Coding Representation for Set Cover Problems with Applications in Test Suite Minimisation
Shin Yoo

12:30

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Session 2 – PhD Papers

Test Case Selection Method for Emergency Changes
Fabio Farzat

Sophisticated Testing of Concurrent Programs
Zdenĕk Letko

An optimization-based approach to software development process tailoring
Andréa Magdaleno

15:30

Refreshments

16:00 – 17:30

Session 3 – Requirements and Prioritization

Search Based Optimization of Requirements Interaction Management
Yuanyuan Zhang and Mark Harman

Using Interactive GA for Requirements Prioritization
Paolo Tonella, Angelo Susi and Francis Palma

Ant Colony Optimization for the Next Release Problem. A comparative study.
José del Sagrado, Isabel María del Águila and Francisco Javier Orellana

18:00

Welcome Cocktail - The Garden of "Rocca dei Rettori"

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

09:00 – 10:30

Keynote – Is There a Free Lunch for Human and Search-Based Software Engineering?
Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK

10:30

Refreshments

11:00 – 12:30

SSBSE 2011 Announcement

Session 4 – Process Management

Search-based prediction of fault-slip-through in large software projects
Wasif Afzal, Richard Torkar, Robert Feldt and Greger Wikstrand

Genetic Programming for Effort Estimation: an Analysis of the Impact of Different Fitness Functions
Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto and Federica Sarro

12:30

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Panel Discussion

Can search-based software engineering play an instrumental role in making software engineering technologies scalable and practical?

15:30

Refreshments

16:00 – 17:30

Fast Abstracts Session

Refactoring in Automatically Generated Programs
Fernando E. B. Otero, Colin G. Johnson, Alex A. Freitas, and Simon J. Thompson

Measuring Testing Complexity
Javier Ferrer, Francisco Chicano and Enrique Alba

Automatic Repair of Concurrency Bugs
Jeremy S. Bradbury, Kevin Jalbert

20:00

Conference Dinner - Restaurant Gino e Pina

Thursday, 9 September 2010

09:00 – 10:30

Session 5 – Testing and Diagnostics

AUSTIN: A tool for Search Based Software Testing for the C Language and its Evaluation on Deployed Automotive Systems
Kiran Lakhotia, Mark Harman and Hamilton Gross

A Search-Based Approach to Functional Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing
Felix Lindlar and Andreas Windisch

Using Search Methods for Selecting and Combining Software Sensors to Improve Fault Detection in Autonomic Systems
Maxim Shevertalov, Kevin Lynch, Edward Stehle, Chris Rorres and Spiros Mancoridis

10:30

Refreshments

11:00 – 12:30

Session 6 – General and Enablers

Search-based resource scheduling for bug fixing tasks
Junchao Xiao and Wasif Afzal

The Human Competitiveness of Search Based Software Engineering
Jerffeson Souza, Camila Maia, Fabricio Freitas and Daniel Coutinho

Concept Locations with Genetic Algorithms: A Comparison of Four Distributed Architectures
Fatemeh Asadi, Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

12:30 – 13:00

Closing Remarks

13:00

Lunch