Automatic program synthesis is a long-lasting dream in software engineering. Recently, a
promising Deep Learning (DL) based solution, called Copilot, has been proposed by …

GitHub Copilot, an extension for the Visual Studio Code development environment powered
by the large-scale language model Codex, makes automatic program synthesis available for …

Trust is a crucial factor for the adoption and responsible usage of generative AI tools in
complex tasks such as software engineering. However, we have a limited understanding of …

Genetic Programming (GP) often uses large training sets and requires all individuals to be
evaluated on all training cases during selection. Random down-sampled lexicase selection …

Template-based synthesis, also known as sketching, is a localized approach to program
synthesis in which the programmer provides not only a specification, but also a high-level" …

The advent of electric and flying vehicles (EnFVs) has brought significant advancements to
the transportation industry, offering improved sustainability, reduced congestion, and …

Evolutionary feature construction is a key technique in evolutionary machine learning, with
the aim of constructing high-level features that enhance performance of a learning algorithm …

Artificial Intelligence (AI), as one of the most important fields of computer science, plays a
significant role in the software development life cycle process, especially in the …

Given the increasing adoption of modern AI-enabled control systems, ensuring their safety
and reliability has become a critical task in software testing. One prevalent approach to …

ChatGPT is a language model with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that has found utility
across various sectors. Given its impact, we conducted two empirical studies to assess the …