Programming contests can provide a high-profile method for attracting interest in computer science. We describe our philosophy as it pertains to the purpose and merits of program...
The Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE), organized for the first time in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2009, attracted 5...
Dino Mandrioli, Stephen Fickas, Carlo A. Furia, Me...
The Tenth Annual ICFP Programming Contest was a 72-hour contest held July 20?23 2007 and organised in conjunction with the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional ...
In this paper we test whether a correlation exists between the optimal mutation rate and problem difficulty. We find that the range of optimal mutation rates is inversely proporti...