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GECCO
2010
Springer
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14 years 4 days ago
Designing better fitness functions for automated program repair
Evolutionary methods have been used to repair programs automatically, with promising results. However, the fitness function used to achieve these results was based on a few simpl...
Ethan Fast, Claire Le Goues, Stephanie Forrest, We...
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Software repository mining with Marmoset: an automated programming project snapshot and testing system
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
The reliability of confidence intervals for computational effort comparisons
This paper analyses the reliability of confidence intervals for Koza's computational effort statistic. First, we conclude that dependence between the observed minimum generat...
Matthew Walker, Howard Edwards, Chris H. Messom
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Distribution replacement: how survival of the worst can out perform survival of the fittest
A new family of "Distribution Replacement” operators for use in steady state genetic algorithms is presented. Distribution replacement enforces the members of the populatio...
Howard Tripp, Phil Palmer
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Automatic discovery of cross-family sequence features associated with protein function
Background: Methods for predicting protein function directly from amino acid sequences are useful tools in the study of uncharacterised protein families and in comparative genomic...
Markus Brameier, Josien Haan, Andrea Krings, Rober...