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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Since modern software systems are large and complex, appropriate abstractions of their
structure are needed to make them more understandable and, thus, easier to maintain …

Abstract The aim of Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) research is to move
software engineering problems from human-based search to machine-based search, using …

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

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 …

Automated software module clustering is important for maintenance of legacy systems
written in a'monolithic format'with inadequate module boundaries. Even where systems were …