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Optimised fitness functions for automated improvement of software's execution time

Precise measurement of software execution time is challenging due to environmental variability and measurement overheads, an issue critical for search-based software improvement …

dimitrios-stamatios-bouras

Enhancing software runtime with reinforcement learning-driven mutation operator selection in genetic improvement

Genetic Improvement employs heuristic search algorithms to explore the search space of program variants by modifying code using mutation operators. This research focuses on …

damien-bose

Toward Systematizing Hot Fixing for Production Software

A hot fix is an unplanned improvement to a specific time-critical issue deployed to a system in production. This topic has never been surveyed within software engineering despite …

carol-hanna