1. Reminder only one week to submission deadline Friday Feb 1, 2019
2. Keynote announcement

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GI-2019 will be held with the 41st International Conference on Software
Engineering, ICSE 2019, on Tuesday 28 May 2019 in Montreal, Canada.

Website:
http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/

Submission deadline: Friday 1st February 2019.

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Keynote Dr. Nadia Alshahwan Facebook
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We are pleased to announce that Nadia Alshahwan of the Sapienz
automatic testing and bug fixing team at Facebook has agreed to give
the keynote at GI 2019.
http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/keynote.html

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Scholarships
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We are able to provide financial support for up to 5 students who
present their paper accepted at the workshop.

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Key Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 1 February 2019
Notification of accepted papers: 1 March 2019
Camera ready copies: 15 March 2019
GI workshop ICSE, Montreal 28 May 2019

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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.

GI is the premier workshop in the field and provides an opportunity for
researchers interested in automated program repair and software optimisation
to disseminate their work, exchange ideas and discover new research
directions.

Topics of interest include both the theory and practice of Genetic
Improvement. Applications include, but are not limited to, using GI to:

• repair bugs
• improve efficiency
• decrease memory consumption
• decrease energy consumption
• explore tradeoffs between non-functional properties
• transplant new functionality
• optimise software parameters
• improve practice (e.g., deployments, case studies, etc.)
• inform language or tool design
• specialise software
• translate between programming languages
• generate multiple versions of software

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Research & Position Papers
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We invite submissions of two types of paper:

Research papers: up to 8 pages long
Position papers: up to 2 pages long

We encourage authors to submit early and in-progress work. The workshop
emphasises interaction and discussion.

Papers should be in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) format. See
https://2019.icse-conferences.org/…/icse-2019-Technical-Pap…<https://2019.icse-conferences.org/track/icse-2019-Technical-Papers#Call-for-Papers>
for details. Papers must be anonymised. All papers should be submitted in
PDF format via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gi2019<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gi2019>

All accepted papers will be presented at GI-2019 and will be published by
the ACM. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
workshop (authors of multiple GI-2019 papers need only register once).

The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Library. This date may be up to
two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2019. The official publication date
affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

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Workshop Chairs
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Justyna Petke [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Shin Hwei Tan [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Bill Langdon [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Westley Weimer [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

                                Bill

        Prof. W. B. Langdon
        Department of Computer Science
        University College London
        Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/


GP EM http://www.springer.com/10710
EuroGP 2019 http://www.evostar.org/2019/cfp_eurogp.php
GI @ ICSE 2019 http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/
GECCO 2019 http://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/
barracuda_0.7.107h http://seqbarracuda.sourceforge.net/
choose your background
http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/colour_telephone/bgcolor.html
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
                       http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
GP Bibliography http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/

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