Program

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Day 1 (Saturday 10th September)

09.00-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.00 TUTORIAL: SBSE: Introduction and Motivation - Mark Harman more »
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.00 KEYNOTE: Search-Based Program Analysis - Andreas Zeller more »
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 PAPER SESSION 1: Foundations of SBSE
Fabrício Gomes de Freitas and Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza
Ten Years of Search Based Software Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis
Andrea Arcuri and Gordon Fraser
On Parameter Tuning in Search Based Software Engineering
Francisco Chicano, Javier Ferrer and Enrique Alba
Elementary Landscape Decomposition of the Test Suite Minimization Problem
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 DISCUSSION PANEL more »

Day 2 (Sunday 11th September)

09.00-10.30 KEYNOTE: Exploiting Decomposability Using Recombination in Genetic Algorithms - Darrell Whitley more »
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 PAPER SESSION 2: Graduate Track
Dayvison Lima, Fabrício Freitas, Gutavo Campos and Jerffeson Souza
A Fuzzy Approach to Requirements Prioritization
Iman Hemati Moghadam
Multi-level Automated Refactoring Using Design Exploration
Mathew Hall
Complexity Metrics for Hierarchical State Machines
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 PAPER SESSION 3: Concurrency and Models
Francisco Chicano, Marco Ferreira and Enrique Alba
Comparing Metaheuristic Algorithms for Error Detection in Java Programs
Jan Staunton and John A. Clark
Applications of Model Reuse when using Estimation of Distribution Algorithms to Test Concurrent Software
James R. Williams, Simon Poulding, Louis M. Rose, Richard F. Paige and Fiona A. C. Polack
Identifying Desirable Game Character Behaviours through the Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Model-Driven Engineering Metamodels
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15:30-17.00 PAPER SESSION 4: Requirements and Planning
Jian Ren, Mark Harman and Massimiliano Di Penta
Cooperative Co-evolutionary Optimization of Software Project Staff Assignments and Job Scheduling
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza, Camila Loiola Brito Maia, Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira, Rafael Augusto Ferreira do Carmo and Márcia Maria Albuquerque Brasil
An Ant Colony Optimization Approach to the Software Release Planning with Dependent Requirements
Alessandro Marchetto, Chiara Di Francescomarino and Paolo Tonella
Optimizing the trade-off between Complexity and Conformance in Process Reduction
17:00-18:00 SSBSE 2012, Steering Committee elections
18:00-19:00 Walking Tour
20:00 Conference Banquet

Day 3 (Monday 12th September)

09.00-10.30 TUTORIAL: Conducting and Analyzing Empirical Studies in Search-Based Software Engineering - Lionel Briand more »
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 PAPER SESSION 5: Software Testing
Sebastian Bauersfeld, Stefan Wappler and Joachim Wegener
A Metaheuristic Approach to Test Sequence Generation for Applications with a GUI
Thelma Elita Colanzi, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assuao, Silvia Regina Vergilio and Aurora Pozo
Integration Test of Classes and Aspects with a Multi-Evolutionary and Coupling-Based Approach
Neelesh Bhattacharya, Abdelilah Sakti, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gael Guéhéneuc and Gilles Pesant
Divide-by-zero Exception Raising via Branch Coverage
12.30-14:00 Lunch and Poster Session
Marcio Barros
Evaluating Modularization Quality as an Extra Objective in Multiobjective Software Module Clustering
Marcio Barros and Arilo Dias-Neto
A Survey of Empirical Investigations on SSBSE Papers
Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino and Federica Sarro
How Multi-Objective Genetic Programming is Effective for Software Development Effort Estimation?
Fabrício G. Freitas, Thiago G. N. Silva, Rafael A. F. Carmo and Jerffeson T. Souza
On the Applicability of Exact Optimization in Search Based Software Engineering
Hurevren Kilic, Ekin Koc and Ibrahim Cereci
Search-Based Parallel Refactoring using Population-Based Direct Approaches
Michael Orlov, Carmel Bregman and Moshe Sipper
Automatic Evolution of Java-written Game Heuristics
János Oláh and István Majzik
Search-based Functional Test Data Generation Using Data Metamodel
Daniel Rodriguez, Roberto Ruiz, José C. Riquelme-Santos and Rachel Harrison
Subgroup Discovery for Defect Prediction
14.00-15.30 PAPER SESSION 6: Fast Abstracts more »
Shin Yoo
SBSE As Gaming video »
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon and Alexander Egyed
Searching the Variability Space to Fix Model Inconsistencies: A Preliminary Assessment
Camila L. B. Maia, Thiago N. Ferreira, Fabricio G. Freitas and Jerffeson T. Souza
An Ant Colony Based Algorithm for Test Case Prioritization with Precedence
Peter M. Kruse and Kiran Lakhotia
Multi Objective Algorithms for Automated Generation of Combinatorial Test Cases with the Classification Tree Method
Liang Yalan, Changhai Nie, Jonathan M. Kauffman, Gregory M. Kapfhammer and Hareton Leung
Empirically Identifying the Best Genetic Algorithm for Covering Array Generation
Mustafa Bozkurt and Mark Harman
Optimised Realistic Test Input Generation
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.30 PAPER SESSION 7: Comprehension, Transformation and Scalability
Shin Yoo, Mark Harman and Shmuel Ur
Highly Scalable Multi Objective Test Suite Minimisation Using Graphics Cards (Best paper award winner)
Yanchuan Li and Gordon Fraser
Bytecode Testability Transformation
Soumaya Medini, Philippe Galinier, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gael Guéhéneuc and Giuliano Antoniol
A Fast Algorithm to Locate Concepts in Execution Traces
17.30-17.45 Close