Conference Program

AUGUST 26 (Tuesday)
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome Cocktail

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AUGUST 27 (Wednesday)
08:30 – 09:00 Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 10:30 Invited Talk (Speaker: Mark Harman)

Title: SBSE: Introduction, Motivation, Results and Directions

10:30 – 10:45 Short Break
10:45 – 12:15 Full Papers Session 1
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:15 SSBSE Challenge Session 1
14:15 – 14:30 Short Break
14:30 – 16:00 Full Papers Session 2
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Full Papers Session 3

Full Papers Session 1 – [ Testing ] Chair: Justyna Petke

  • Towards Automated A/B Testing Giordano – Tamburrelli and Alessandro Margara.
  • On The Effectiveness of Whole Test Suite Generation Andrea – Arcuri and Gordon Fraser.
  • Combining Stochastic Grammars and Genetic Programming for Coverage Testing at the System Level – Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, Roberto Tiella and Paolo Tonella.

Full Papers Session 2 – [ Multi-objective Optimization ] Chair: Celso Camilo

  • Software Refactoring Under Uncertainty: A Robust Multi-Objective Approach
    Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh and Mel Ó Cinnéide.
  • Random-Weighted Search-Based Multi-Objective Optimization Revisited
    Shuai Wang, Shaukat Ali and Arnaud Gotlieb.
  • Multi-objective Genetic Optimization for Noise-based Testing of Concurrent Software
    Vendula Hruba, Zdenek Letko, Hana Pluhackova, Tomas Vojnar and Bohuslav Krena.

Full Papers Session 3 - [ Breaking new ground/Machine learning + SBSE ] Chair: Leandro Minku

  • Detecting Program Execution Phases using Heuristic Search – Omar Benomar, Houari Sahraoui and Pierre Poulin.
  • A New Learning Mechanism for Resolving Inconsistencies in Using Cooperative Co-evolution Model (short) – Yongrui Xu and Peng Liang.
  • On the Use of Machine Learning and Search-based Software Engineering for ill-Defined Fitness Function: A Case Study on Software Refactoring – Amal Boukhdhir, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh and Lamjed Ben Said.

SSBSE Challenge Session 1 – [ Pidgin ]

  • Pidgin Crasher: Searching for Minimised Crashing GUI Event Sequences – Haitao Dan, Mark Harman, Jens Krinke, Lingbo Li, Alexandru Marginean and Fan Wu.
  • Babel Pidgin: SBSE can grow and graft entirely new functionality into a real world system – Mark Harman, Yue Jia, and William B. Langdon.

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AUGUST 28 (Thursday)
09:00 – 10:30 Keynote 1 (Speaker: Mauro Pezzè)

Title: Intrinsic Software Redundancy: Applications and Challenges

10:30 – 10:45 Short Break
10:45 – 12:15 Full Papers Session 4
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:15 SSBSE Challenge Session 2
14:15 – 14:30 Short Break
14:30 – 16:00 Graduate Track Session
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
18:00 – 22:00 Social Event

Full Papers Session 4 - [ Design ] Chair: Marouane Kessentini

  • A Multi-Model Optimization Framework for the Model Driven Design of Cloud Applications – Giovanni Paolo Gibilisco, Danilo Ardagna, Michele Ciavotta and Alexander Lavrentev.
  • Applying Design Patterns in Search-Based Product Line Architecture Design – Giovani Guizzo, Thelma E. Colanzi and Silvia R. Vergilio.
  • Producing Just Enough Documentation: The Next SAD Version Problem – J. Andres Diaz-Pace, Matias Nicoletti, Silvia Schiaffino and Santiago Vidal.

SSBSE Challenge Session 2 – [ Hadoop ]

  • Less is more: Temporal fault predictive performance over multiple Hadoop releases – M. Harman, S. Islam, Y. Jia, L. Minku, F. Sarro and K. Srivisut.
  • Repairing and optimizing Hadoop hashCode implementations – Z. A. Kocsis, G. Neumann, J. Swan, M. G. Epitropakis, A. E. I. Brownlee, S. O. Haraldsson, and E. Bowles.

Graduate Track Session - Chair: Nadia Alshahwan

  • Transaction Profile Estimation of Queueing Network Models for IT Systems Using A Search-based Technique – Shadi Ghaith, Miao Wang, Philip Perry and John Murphy.
  • Improving Heuristics for the Next Release Problem Through Landscape Visualization – Richard Fuchshuber and Marcio O. Barros.
  • Machine Learning for User Modeling in an Interactive Genetic Algorithm for the Next Release Problem – Allysson Allex Araújo and Matheus Paixão.

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AUGUST 29 (Friday)
09:00 – 10:30 Keynote 2 (Speaker: Marc Schoenauer)

Title: Programming by Ranking

10:30 – 10:45 Short Break
10:45 – 12:15 Full Papers Session 5
12:15 – 12:30 Closing Ceremony
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Full Papers Session 5 - [ Product Lines ] Chair: Thelma Colanzi

  • Mutation-based Selection and Minimization of Software Product Line Test Configurations- Christopher Henard, Mike Papadakis and Yves Le Traon.
  • Feature Model Synthesis with Genetic-Programming – Lukas Linsbauer, Roberto Erick Lopez-Herrejon and Alexander Egyed.
  • Bi-objective Genetic Search for Release Planning in Support of Themes – Muhammad Rezaul Karim and Guenther Ruhe.