SSBSE 2026 - Steering Committee

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12:30 - 14:00	LunchFSE Catering

12:30 90m Lunch		Lunch FSE Catering

14:00 - 15:30	SSBSE ChallengeSSBSE Challenge at MB 2.210 Chair(s): Moataz Chouchen Concordia University

14:00 10m Talk		Challenge Overview SSBSE Challenge
14:10 15m Short-paper		ApkFuzz: Search-Based Fuzzing for Android APK Vulnerability Discovery SSBSE Challenge Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Aidan Dakhama The University of Edinburgh, UK, Harel Berger Ariel University Pre-print
14:25 15m Short-paper		Fuzz3: Entropy as a Third Oracle SSBSE Challenge Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Janine Obiri University College London (UCL), Aidan Dakhama The University of Edinburgh, UK, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield, William Langdon University College London Pre-print
14:40 15m Short-paper		Reducing LLMs by Searching Heterogeneous Quantizations SSBSE Challenge Enrique Alba University of Malaga, Yazhuo Cao King's College London, Hector Menendez King’s College London Pre-print
14:55 15m Short-paper		SafeTune: Search-based Harmfulness Minimisation for Large Language Models SSBSE Challenge Giordano d'Aloisio University of L'Aquila, David Williams University College London, Giusy Annunziata University of Salerno, Zhiwei Fei Nanjing University, Antinisca Di Marco University of L'Aquila, Federica Sarro University College London Pre-print
15:10 15m Short-paper		Survival of the Stealthiest: Evolving Low-Entropy Ransomware via Genetic Algorithms SSBSE Challenge Efrat Levenberg Jerusalem College of Technology, Kristina Sviazhina , Pierre Parrend Université de Strasbourg, Ayelet Butman Holon Institute of Technology, Harel Berger Ariel University

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee BreakFSE Catering

15:30 30m Coffee break		Break FSE Catering

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

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