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Genetic Improvement Workshop (GI-2016) - funding for students
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We are happy to announce that, thanks to the generous support of GrammaTech,
we are offering *up to 5 scholarships* to cover registration costs for
GECCO and
all associated workshops for students whose work is accepted to the GI
workshop.
Priority will be given based on the student's need and submission quality.
Students applying for a scholarship should submit a first-author regular
paper
to the workshop (up to 8 pages long). Moreover, their supervisor should
send
a one-paragraph note of recommendation to
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listing:
- the student's area of work.
- the supervisor's support of the student's application.
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Social Event
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We are delighted to announce that speakers at GI 2016 will be invited to
a social event.
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Keynote
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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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Student Session
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At GI 2016 we will be offering one-on-one time for PhD students to talk
to senior
members of the field. This is a great opportunity to discuss your work
and career
with academic researchers experienced in GI, GP, and Evolutionary
Computation,
including: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Gabriela Ochoa, Chris Simons, Westley Weimer,
and John Woodward.
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Key Dates
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Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2016
Authors Notification: April 20, 2016
Camera-ready submission: May 4, 2016
GECCO, Denver, Colorado, USA: July 20-24, 2016
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Website
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http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com
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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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Dr. Justyna Petke
Research Associate
CREST Centre
University College London
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