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Keynote at GI-2016
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We are happy to announce that Westley Weimer will give a keynote at GI-2016.
He is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and his work has led to over eight thousand citations and several awards, including two 'Humies' for his work on using Genetic Improvement for bug fixing.
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Website
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http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com
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Key Dates
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Paper submission deadline: April 2, 2016
Authors Notification: April 19, 2016
Camera-ready submission: May 3, 2016
GECCO Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA: July 20-24, 2016
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Call For Papers
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We invite submissions that discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Genetic Improvement. The workshop also provides an opportunity for researchers interested in GI to exchange ideas and find out about current research directions in the field and receive guidance on the application of GI to their problem domain. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, using genetic improvement to automatically:
• fix bugs
• improve efficiency
• decrease memory consumption
• decrease power consumption
• transplant new functionality
• specialise software
The growth in GI echoes a wider trend in research on the use of evolutionary and genetic search in optimising aspects of software engineering. For example, since 2002 there has been a track on Search Based Software Engineering at GECCO. There exists the dedicated SSBSE conference, and we now see the inauguration of regional conferences and workshops featuring or even dedicated to SBSE (in Brazil, China and recently the USA). In 2015 the inaugural Genetic Improvement Workshop was held in conjunction with GECCO. The workshop was a tremendous success.
Genetic Improvement is one of the most exciting and growing applications of evolutionary search. Including "to appear", since 2000, there have been more than 70 papers in this area and interest is growing. GI research has won three GECCO Human Competitive Awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze) and two best papers, including at the International Conference on Software Engineering and GECCO. Furthermore, a special issue on Genetic Improvement in the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal is due to appear in the coming months.
Whilst SBSE has traditionally been applied to software engineering problems there has been great interest in using it, particularly genetic programming, on software itself.
Genetic Improvement (GI) uses computational search to improve software while retaining its partial functionality. The technique was first applied to parallelise programs and optimise and find compromises between non-functional properties of software, such as execution time and power consumption. This work led on to automated bug fixing in commercial software. More recently, it has been shown that GP can use human written software as a feed stock for GP and is able to evolve mutant software dedicated to solving particular problems. Another interesting area is grow and graft GP, where software is incubated outside its target human written code and subsequently grafted into it via GP.
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Submission and Publication Details
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We invite submissions of two types of articles:
Research papers: up to 8 pages long
Position papers: 2 pages long
All papers should be in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) format. Please see the GECCO 2016 information for authors for further details. Papers do not have to be anonymised. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gi20160 . All accepted papers will be presented at GI-2016 and will appear in the GECCO workshop volume.
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Workshop Chairs
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Westley Weimer [log in to unmask]
Justyna Petke [log in to unmask]
David White [log in to unmask]
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