Registrations for the COW65: Automated Program Repair and Genetic
Improvement will close on August 16th.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 6:35 PM Petke, Justyna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The CREST group at UCL is organising two new events for the
> CREST Open Workshops (COW):
>
> COW64: SSBSE Challenge Track: Collaborative Jam Session (Aug 3rd-4th)
>
> COW65: Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement (Sep 18th-19th)
>
> More details below. Please note the note about cancellations
> and student registration which applies to both events:
>
> ***************************************************************
> *** COW64: SSBSE Challenge Track: Collaborative Jam Session ***
> ***************************************************************
>
> The 15th Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering is
> hosting a Challenge Track:
> https://conf.researchr.org/track/ssbse-2023/ssbse-2023-challenge#Call-for-Challenge-Solutions
> The SSBSE Challenge track is a good opportunity for new
> researchers to join the SBSE community and develop a taste
> and gain practical expertise in the field. It also allows
> researchers to apply techniques and tools to real-world
> software and to discover novel practical (or even
> theoretical) challenges for future work.
>
> The CREST centre at UCL is a long-standing contributor of
> accepted papers to the Challenge Track. Their sustained
> success can be attributed in part to the organisation of a
> Jam Session in preparation for the Challenge Track
> submission deadline, as part of the CREST Open Workshops
> (COW) (See 2017 edition:
> http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/past_events/). This Jam
> Session runs over two consecutive days.
>
> The purpose of this CREST open workshop is to draw together
> those in the community interested in collaborating on
> submissions for this challenge. The workshop will act, in
> part, as a `collaboration brokerage',  helping to facilitate
> and foster collaborations between different subgroups
> attending the workshop.  The emphasis of the workshop will
> be on collaboration with a view to producing high quality
> submissions to the challenge track.
>
> 64th COW registration of interest to attend is now open via:
> https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/aug/64th-crest-open-workshop-ssbse-challenge-track-collaborative-jam-session
> Due to limited room capacity, the registration will be
> confirmed by July 20th.  Please don't book your
> flight/accommodation before your registration is accepted.
>
> With very best wishes,
> Federica and Justyna
>
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> *** COW65: Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement ***
> ***************************************************************
>
> The next one will be on Monday September 18th and Tuesday
> 19th 2023 at University College Lodon, London, UK. This
> workshop, organised by Dr. Sergey Mechtaev, Dr. Justyna
> Petke, Dr. Maria Kechagia, and Nikhil Parasaram, will focus
> on "Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement"
> https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
>
> Program repair has the potential to reduce the significant
> manual effort that developers devote to finding and fixing
> software bugs. Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth
> of research in program repair. Researchers have proposed a
> large number of techniques aimed to address fundamental
> challenges of program repair such as scalability and
> test-overfitting, and have successfully deployed program
> repair in industry. One of the techniques that has been used
> in the repair field has been genetic improvement. GI uses
> automated search in order to improve existing software.
> Aside from bug fixing, GI has been used to optimise other
> software properties, such as runtime, memory and energy
> consumption. It has also been used for other kinds of
> improvement such as specialising and porting. The goal of
> this workshop is to reflect on the progress that the
> research community has made over the last years in those two
> closely related fields, share experience in research and
> deployment, and identify key challenges that need to be
> addressed in future research.
>
> All talks at this workshop are by invitation only.  The
> workshop is part of the CREST Open Workshop (COW) programme
> (http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow).
>
> CREST is the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and
> Testing, founded in 2006. The CREST Open Workshop (COW)
> Programme started in 2009 and has attracted over 2249
> attendees from around 300 institutions, spread over 42
> countries. You can see the events we have run in the past
> here:
> https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/mar/63rd-crest-open-workshop-genetic-improvement-and-software-specialisation
> http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/past_events/
>
> As you will see, we try to provide a useful archive of
> talks, not just slides, but videos too and more recently,
> live blogging and the use of social networking media, to
> allow the widest community to be involved, both during and
> after the event. We typically have between 35 and 50
> attendees. For some previous events this has sadly meant
> that we have had to turn away registrations, but it is
> important that we have a workshop feel to the event and, of
> course, that we have a very nice room too.
>
> Talks will be a *maximum* of 20 minutes long with plenty of
> time for questions and discussion. We also hope that the
> workshop will foster and promote collaboration, and there
> will be time set aside to support this.
>
> Participants are expected to attend the whole event in
> person since the workshop is interactive and discursive.
> There is no registration fee, due to kind support of UKRI
> EPSRC's fellowship grant on "Automated Software
> Specialisation Using Genetic Improvement"
> (https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P023991/1)
> Light lunches, will be included, along with the usual
> refreshments all at no charge.
>
> The registration of interest is currently open, and there is
> information about the speakers and talks on our website.
>
> Confirmed speakers:
> Claire Le Gouse, Carnegie Mellon
> University Lin Tan, Purdue University Lingming Zhang,
> University of Illinois Michele Tufano, Microsoft Research
> Matias Martinez, Universitat Politècnica de
> Catalunya-BarcelonaTech Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, University
> of Luxembourg Saemundur Haraldson, University of Sterling
> Vesna Nowack, Imperial College London Serkan Kirbas,
> Bloomberg Gunel Jahangirova, King's College London Jie
> Zhang, King's College London
> More to follow
>
> 65th COW registration of interest to attend is now open via:
> https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
>
> With very best wishes,
> Maria, Nikhil, Sergey, and Justyna
>
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> ** Policy on Student Registrations **
> ***************************************************************
>
> We welcome registrations from PhD students, where the
> student is pursuing a programme of research for which the
> COW will provide intellectual benefit and/or from whom the
> workshop and its other attendees will gain benefit. We do
> not normally expect to register students other than those on
> PhD level programmes of study. For example, those students
> taking a course at the equivalent of UK masters or bachelors
> level would not, ordinarily, be considered eligible to
> register for COW. However, we are willing to consider
> exceptional cases, where a masters or bachelors student has
> a clear contribution to make to the topic of the COW. In all
> cases, students must have the approval of their
> supervisor/advisor for their attendance at the COW and their
> consent to the terms of registration.  This is why we ask
> that students seeking to register for a COW also supply the
> contact details of their supervisor.
>
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> ** Cancellation Fee **
> ***************************************************************
>
> Mainly through the kind support of the EPSRC in the form of
> a fellowship grant, we have funding to support the
> workshops, so registration is free. However, please
> appreciate that numbers are limited and catering needs to be
> booked in advance, so registration followed by
> non-attendance will cause difficulties. For this reason,
> though the workshop is entirely free of charge, there will
> be a cancellation fee of £100 for those who register but
> subsequently fail to attend.
>
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