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07/07/2020
Benchmarking in Optimization: Best Practice and Open Issues
This survey compiles ideas and recommendations from more than a dozen re...
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04/28/2020
Human-Like Summaries from Heterogeneous and Time-Windowed Software Development Artefacts
Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the area...
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04/27/2020
Fitness Landscape Analysis of Dimensionally-Aware Genetic Programming Featuring Feynman Equations
Genetic programming is an often-used technique for symbolic regression: ...
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04/27/2020
MATE: A Model-based Algorithm Tuning Engine
In this paper, we introduce a Model-based Algorithm Turning Engine, name...
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04/25/2020
The Dynamic Travelling Thief Problem: Benchmarks and Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms
Many real-world optimisation problems involve dynamic and stochastic com...
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04/17/2020
An Annotated Dataset of Stack Overflow Post Edits
To improve software engineering, software repositories have been mined f...
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04/16/2020
Optimising the Fit of Stack Overflow Code Snippets into Existing Code
Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack O...
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04/15/2020
Ants can orienteer a thief in their robbery
We address the Thief Orienteering Problem (ThOP), a multi-component prob...
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04/09/2020
Towards Rigorous Validation of Energy Optimisation Experiments
The optimisation of software energy consumption is of growing importance...
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03/21/2020
Optimisation of Large Wave Farms using a Multi-strategy Evolutionary Framework
Wave energy is a fast-developing and promising renewable energy resource...
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02/11/2020
A Non-Dominated Sorting Based Customized Random-Key Genetic Algorithm for the Bi-Objective Traveling Thief Problem
In this paper, we propose a method to solve a bi-objective variant of th...
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01/24/2020
Design optimisation of a multi-mode wave energy converter
A wave energy converter (WEC) similar to the CETO system developed by Ca...
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12/11/2019
Rosita: Towards Automatic Elimination of Power-Analysis Leakage in Ciphers
Since their introduction over two decades ago, physical side-channel att...
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12/05/2019
Is perturbation an effective restart strategy?
Premature convergence can be detrimental to the performance of search me...
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10/03/2019
A Hybrid Cooperative Co-evolution Algorithm Framework for Optimising Power Take Off and Placements of Wave Energy Converters
Wave energy technologies have the potential to play a significant role i...
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08/21/2019
Towards a Structural Framework for Explicit Domain Knowledge in Visual Analytics
Clinicians and other analysts working with healthcare data are in need f...
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08/19/2019
Algorithm Selection for Image Quality Assessment
Subjective perceptual image quality can be assessed in lab studies by hu...
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05/06/2019
Toward Human-Like Summaries Generated from Heterogeneous Software Artefacts
Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the fiel...
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04/21/2019
A new insight into the Position Optimization of Wave Energy Converters by a Hybrid Local Search
Renewable energy, such as ocean wave energy, plays a pivotal role in add...
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04/15/2019
A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm Framework for Optimising Power Take Off and Placements of Wave Energy Converters
Ocean wave energy is a source of renewable energy that has gained much a...
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02/15/2019
On resampling vs. adjusting probabilistic graphical models in estimation of distribution algorithms
The Bayesian Optimisation Algorithm (BOA) is an Estimation of Distributi...
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02/13/2019
A characterisation of S-box fitness landscapes in cryptography
Substitution Boxes (S-boxes) are nonlinear objects often used in the des...
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12/04/2018
Better Software Analytics via "DUO": Data Mining Algorithms Using/Used-by Optimizers
This paper claims that a new field of empirical software engineering res...
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11/16/2018
Evolutionary Diversity Optimization Using Multi-Objective Indicators
Evolutionary diversity optimization aims to compute a diverse set of sol...
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06/23/2018
An Improved Generic Bet-and-Run Strategy for Speeding Up Stochastic Local Search
A commonly used strategy for improving optimization algorithms is to res...
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05/28/2018
Randomized Local Search Heuristics for Submodular Maximization and Covering Problems: Benefits of Heavy-tailed Mutation Operators
A core feature of evolutionary algorithms is their mutation operator. Re...
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04/13/2018
Per-Corpus Configuration of Topic Modelling for GitHub and Stack Overflow Collections
To make sense of large amounts of textual data, topic modelling is frequ...
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03/04/2018
On the Effectiveness of Simple Success-Based Parameter Selection Mechanisms for Two Classical Discrete Black-Box Optimization Benchmark Problems
Despite significant empirical and theoretically supported evidence that ...
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02/15/2018
Discrepancy-based Evolutionary Diversity Optimization
Diversity plays a crucial role in evolutionary computation. While divers...
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02/07/2018
Evolutionary Computation plus Dynamic Programming for the Bi-Objective Travelling Thief Problem
This research proposes a novel indicator-based hybrid evolutionary appro...
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01/30/2018
Data-Driven Search-based Software Engineering
This paper introduces Data-Driven Search-based Software Engineering (DSE...
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08/01/2017
Exact Approaches for the Travelling Thief Problem
Many evolutionary and constructive heuristic approaches have been introd...
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01/24/2017
Validation of Internal Meters of Mobile Android Devices
In this paper we outline our results for validating the precision of the...
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09/13/2016
A Generic Bet-and-run Strategy for Speeding Up Traveling Salesperson and Minimum Vertex Cover
A common strategy for improving optimization algorithms is to restart th...
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09/02/2016
A case study of algorithm selection for the traveling thief problem
Many real-world problems are composed of several interacting components....
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06/22/2016
Evolutionary computation for multicomponent problems: opportunities and future directions
Over the past 30 years many researchers in the field of evolutionary com...
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04/20/2012
A Fast and Effective Local Search Algorithm for Optimizing the Placement of Wind Turbines
The placement of wind turbines on a given area of land such that the win...
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09/09/2011
Predicting the Energy Output of Wind Farms Based on Weather Data: Important Variables and their Correlation
Wind energy plays an increasing role in the supply of energy world-wide....
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04/05/2011
Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team Pursuit Track Cycling
Team pursuit track cycling is a bicycle racing sport held on velodromes ...
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03/29/2011
Computational Complexity Results for Genetic Programming and the Sorting Problem
Genetic Programming (GP) has found various applications. Understanding t...
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12/04/2010
Faster Black-Box Algorithms Through Higher Arity Operators
We extend the work of Lehre and Witt (GECCO 2010) on the unbiased black-...
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07/27/2010