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CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2013)
SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK
July 06-10, 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013/organizers-tracks.html#sbse
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Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is the application of search algorithms to the solution of software engineering tasks. We invite papers that address problems in the software engineering domain through the use of heuristic search techniques. We particularly encourage papers demonstrating novel search strategies or the application of SBSE techniques to new problems in software engineering. While empirical results are important, papers that do not contain results - but instead present new approaches, concepts, or theory - are also very welcome.
NEW: Extended versions of selected papers of the SBSE track will be published in a special issue of Journal of Systems and Software with the track chairs as Guest Editors.
As an indication of the wide scope of the field, search techniques include, but are not limited to:
- Evolutionary Computation
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Particle Swarm Optimization
- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
- Simulated Annealing
- Tabu Search
- Iterated Local Search
- Variable Neighbourhood Search
- Hybrid Algorithms
The software engineering tasks to which they are applied are drawn from throughout the engineering lifecycle and include, but are not limited to:
- Project Management and Organization
- Requirements Engineering
- Developing Dynamic Service-Oriented Systems
- Configuring Cloud-Based Architectures
- Enabling Self-healing/Self-optimizing Systems
- Creating Recommendation Systems to Support Software Development
- Software Security
- System and Software Integration
- Test Data Generation
- Regression Testing Optimization
- Network Design and Monitoring
- Software Maintenance, Program Repair, Refactoring and Transformation
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of GECCO 2013, which will be published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
IMPORTANT DATES
January 23, 2013 - Paper submission deadline
April 17, 2013 - Camera-ready version of accepted articles
July 06-10, 2013 - GECCO 2013 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TRACK CHAIRS
Francisco Chicano, University of Málaga (Spain), [log in to unmask]
Mark Harman, University College London (UK), [log in to unmask]
