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GECCO
2006
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
Edgar Galván López, Riccardo Poli
ISSA
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Unified Architecture For Automatic Software Updates
This paper attempts to address the issue of hardening the internal security of an organisation's network by easing its patch management. Traditionally security has been model...
Dominic White
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Can developer-module networks predict failures?
Software teams should follow a well defined goal and keep their work focused. Work fragmentation is bad for efficiency and quality. In this paper we empirically investigate the re...
Martin Pinzger, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murph...
KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Solving string constraints lazily
Decision procedures have long been a fixture in program analysis, and reasoning about string constraints is a key element in many program analyses and testing frameworks. Recent ...
Pieter Hooimeijer, Westley Weimer
METRICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects
The Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering helps improve software development by providing guidelines for selecting development techniques, recommending areas for furth...
Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Barry W. Boehm, A...