In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based …

In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to software engineering in which search based …

This paper claims that a new field of software engineering research and practice is
emerging: search-based software engineering. The paper argues that software engineering …

This paper describes work on the application of optimization techniques in software
engineering. These optimization techniques come from the operations research and …

Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous
changes and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products …

Software module clustering is the problem of automatically organizing software units into
modules to improve program structure. There has been a great deal of recent interest in …

Metaheuristic techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search
have found wide application in most areas of engineering. These techniques have also …

Crossover is an important operation in the Genetic Algorithms (GA). Crossover operation is
responsible for producing offspring for the next generation so as to explore a much wider …

This survey investigates search-based approaches to software design. The basics of the
most popular meta-heuristic algorithms are presented as background to the search-based …

The high cost of software maintenance could be reduced by automatically improving the
design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have constructed a …