Call For Papers
Submissions of full technical papers are invited for the Search-Based Software Engineering track to be held in Portland, Oregon on July 7-11, 2010.The goals of the GECCO SBSE track are to:
- Develop and extend the emerging community working on Search-Based Software Engineering;
- Continue to inform researchers in Evolutionary Computation about problems in Software Engineering;
- Increase awareness and uptake of Evolutionary Computation technology within the Software Engineering community;
- Provide definitions of representations, fitness/cost functions, operators and search strategies for Software Engineering problems.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the application of search-based algorithms for:
- Requirements engineering
- Software design and architecture
- Building recommendation systems to support the development process
- Building self-healing, self-optimizing systems
- Developing highly dynamic service-oriented systems
- Network design and monitoring
- Software security
- System and software integration
- Quality assurance and testing
- Project management, control, prediction, administration and organization
- Maintenance, change management, optimization and transformation
- Genetic Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
- Evolution Strategies
- Evolutionary Programming
- Simulated Annealing
- Tabu Search
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Particle Swarm Optimization
As an indication, ‘search- based’ techniques are taken to include (but are not limited to):
Papers should address a problem in the software engineering domain and should approach the solution to the problem using a heuristic search strategy. Papers may also address the use of methods and techniques for improving the applicability and efficacy of search-based techniques when applied to software engineering problems. While experimental results are important, papers that do not contain results, but rather present new approaches, concepts and/ or theory will also be considered.
Papers should be submitted by January 27th, 2010 electronically via the GECCO website. The main GECCO website contains the definite statement of requirements of a submission (the information on this page is provided to give some guidelines particular to the SBSE track).
Submissions for the Search-Based Software Engineering track should be clearly identified as such to ensure that they are reviewed by the SBSE program committee.
Some papers which are not accepted as full papers may be accepted as poster papers, which are entitled to one or two pages (tbd) in the proceedings and a place at the poster session, which is the main social event of the conference. It is typically very well attended and is a source of lively discussion.