The Research Track looks forward to novel research in the field of Search-based Software Engineering.

Research Papers

Title
Evolutionary Analysis of Alloy Specifications with an Adaptive Fitness Function
Research Papers
Higher Fault Detection Through Novel Density Estimators in Unit Test Generation
Research Papers
Many Independent Objective Estimation of Distribution Search for Android Testing
Research Papers

Call for Papers

We invite the submission of high-quality papers describing novel and original work in all areas of SBSE including, but not limited to, applications of SBSE to novel problems, theoretical analyses of search algorithms for software engineering, rigorous empirical evaluations of SBSE techniques, and reports of industrial experiences. SSBSE welcomes applications of search-based techniques throughout the software engineering life-cycle. We also invite the application of a broad range of search methods - ranging from exact operational research techniques to nature-inspired algorithms, local search meta-heuristics, and simulated annealing. We particularly encourage papers that report on software engineering applications to which SBSE has not been applied before. Research papers must be of up to 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices.

Format and submission

Papers must not have been previously published, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or another conference. Papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee based on their originality, technical soundness, and presentation quality. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format. Like previous editions of SSBSE, the Research Paper Track will follow a strong double-anonymous reviewing process in which the identity of authors will not be known to the program committee at any time during the process. The papers submitted must not reveal the authors’ identities in any way.

Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body of their submission. Authors should ensure that any citation to related work by themselves is written in the third person, that is, " the prior work of XYZ" as opposed to " our prior work". Authors should avoid providing URLs to author-revealing sites (tools, data sets). The paper can mention the existence of such sites, but the visit of such sites should not be needed to conduct the review. You can submit, optionally, a zip file or a PDF file containing supplementary material (raw data, data sets, experiments, etc.), which should also be blinded. The program committee will not necessarily consider it in the paper review process. Authors should anonymize author-revealing company names yet can provide general characteristics of the organisations involved needed to understand the context of the paper. Authors having further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the Program Chairs by email. Papers that do not comply with the double-blind review process will be desk-rejected. If a paper is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the symposium and present the paper.

Papers can be submitted through the following link on EasyChair.

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ssbse2024researchtra

Tracks
Plenary
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Mon 15 Jul

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09:00 - 10:30
Opening sessionRENE/NIER / Keynote at Acerola
Chair(s): Marcio Barros UNIRIO
09:00
10m
Day opening
Opening session
Keynote
09:10
60m
Keynote
Keynote speaker- Search-based Software Engineering and Quantum Computing
Keynote
Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University
10:10
20m
Short-paper
Danger is My Middle Lane: Simulations From Real-World Dangerous Roads
RENE/NIER
Antony Bartlett TU Delft, The Netherlands, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakFSE Social Events at Foyer

Coffee Break + Poster Presentations [Afternoon students]

10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
FSE Social Events

11:00 - 12:30
SSBSE Research TrackResearch Papers at Acerola
11:00
30m
Research paper
Evolutionary Analysis of Alloy Specifications with an Adaptive Fitness Function
Research Papers
Jianghao Wang University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Clay Stevens University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brooke Kidmose , Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:30
30m
Research paper
Higher Fault Detection Through Novel Density Estimators in Unit Test Generation
Research Papers
Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, Mitchell Olsthoorn Delft University of Technology
12:00
30m
Research paper
Many Independent Objective Estimation of Distribution Search for Android Testing
Research Papers
Michael Auer University of Passau, Andreas Strobl , Gordon Fraser University of Passau
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
FSE Social Events

14:00 - 15:30
SSBSE Challenge TrackSSBSE Challenge at Acerola
14:00
22m
Short-paper
Iterative Refactoring of Real-World Open-Source Programs with Large Language Models
SSBSE Challenge
Jinsu Choi , Gabin An Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Shin Yoo Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
14:22
22m
Short-paper
Approximating Stochastic Quantum Noise through Genetic Programming
SSBSE Challenge
Asmar Muqeet Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics
14:45
22m
Short-paper
Fuzzing-Based Differential Testing For Quantum Simulators
SSBSE Challenge
Daniel Blackwell University College London, Justyna Petke University College London, Yazhuo cao , Avner Bensoussan
15:07
22m
Short-paper
GreenStableYolo: Optimizing Inference Time and Image Quality of Text-to-Image Generation
SSBSE Challenge
Jingzhi Gong Loughborough University, Sisi Li , Giordano d'Aloisio University of L'Aquila, Zishuo Ding The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Yulong Ye University of Birmingham, William B. Langdon University College London, Federica Sarro University College London
16:00 - 18:00
Hot off the PressHot off the Press at Acerola
16:00
20m
Research paper
SSBSE Summary of Adaptive Search-based Repair of Deep Neural Networks
Hot off the Press
Davide Li Calsi Politecnico di Milano, Matias Duran Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Thomas Laurent Lero@Trinity College Dublin, Xiao-Yi Zhang University of Science and Technology Beijing, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Anthony Ventresque Trinity College Dublin & Lero, Ireland
16:20
20m
Research paper
SSBSE Summary of EvoCLINICAL: Evolving Cyber-cyber Digital Twin with Active Transfer Learning for Automated Cancer Registry System
Hot off the Press
Chengjie Lu Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Xu Qinghua , Tao Yue Beihang University, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Thomas Schwitalla Cancer Registry of Norway, Jan F. Nygård Cancer Registry of Norway
16:40
20m
Research paper
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments
Hot off the Press
Christian Birchler Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Bern, Sajad Khatiri USI-Lugnao & Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Pouria Derakhshanfar JetBrains Research, Sebastiano Panichella Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
17:00
30m
Day closing
Announcements and closing
Hot off the Press

17:30
30m
Meeting
SBSE Steering Committee meeting
Hot off the Press

Questions? Use the SSBSE Research Papers contact form.