SSBSE 2026
Mon 6 Jul 2026 Montreal, Canada
co-located with FSE 2026
Mon 6 Jul 2026 16:45 - 17:00 at MB 2.210 - SSBSE Challenge Chair(s): Mijung Kim

Mon 6 Jul

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16:00 - 18:00
SSBSE ChallengeSteering Committee / RENE/NIER / SSBSE Challenge at MB 2.210
Chair(s): Mijung Kim UNIST
16:00
15m
Short-paper
VFL-Searcher: Optimizing Stealthy Adversarial Dominating Inputs
SSBSE Challenge
Pichsereyvattana Chan Georgetown University, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Harel Berger Ariel University
16:15
15m
Short-paper
What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests
SSBSE Challenge
ilia Dovhoshliubnyi Edinburgh Napier University, Nima Soroush Edinburgh Napier University, Ashkan Sami Edinburgh Napier University, Alexander E.I. Brownlee University of Stirling
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Short-paper
White-Box Execution Refactoring of Transformers for Lower Energy
SSBSE Challenge
Enrique Alba University of Malaga, Hector Menendez King’s College London
16:45
15m
Research paper
MLStractor: LLM-Powered Search-Based Monolith-To-Microservice Decomposition
RENE/NIER
Ilyes Kasdallah Laval University, GHORAB Mostafa Anouar Université Laval, CA, Oussama Jebbar Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Khaled Sellami Laval University, Mohammed Sayagh ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Ali Ouni Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS), Mohamed Aymen saied Laval University
17:00
15m
Research paper
Zoom, Don't Wander: Why Regional Search Outperforms Pareto Reasoning and Global Optimization in Budget-Constrained SBSE
RENE/NIER
Kishan Kumar Ganguly NC State, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
17:25
25m
Meeting
Steering Committee Meeting
Steering Committee

17:50
10m
Day closing
Closing Remarks
Steering Committee