TY - CHAP
T1 - Why the Virtual Nature of Software Makes It Ideal for Search Based Optimization
AU - Harman, Mark
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper(1) provides a motivation for the application of search based optimization to Software Engineering, an area that has come to be known as Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE). SBSE techniques have already been applied to many problems throughout the Software Engineering lifecycle, with new application domains emerging on a regular basis. The approach is very generic and therefore finds wide application in Software Engineering. It facilitates automated and semi-automated solutions in situations typified by large complex problem spaces with multiple competing and conflicting objectives. Previous work has already discussed, in some detail, the advantages of the SBSE approach for Software Engineering. This paper summarises previous work and goes further, by arguing that Software Engineering provides the ideal set of application problems for which optimization algorithms are supremely well suited.
AB - This paper(1) provides a motivation for the application of search based optimization to Software Engineering, an area that has come to be known as Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE). SBSE techniques have already been applied to many problems throughout the Software Engineering lifecycle, with new application domains emerging on a regular basis. The approach is very generic and therefore finds wide application in Software Engineering. It facilitates automated and semi-automated solutions in situations typified by large complex problem spaces with multiple competing and conflicting objectives. Previous work has already discussed, in some detail, the advantages of the SBSE approach for Software Engineering. This paper summarises previous work and goes further, by arguing that Software Engineering provides the ideal set of application problems for which optimization algorithms are supremely well suited.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951283561&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 978-3-642-12028-2
VL - 6013 LNCS
T3 - FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS
SP - 1
EP - 12
BT - Unknown
PB - Springer
CY - BERLIN
T2 - 13th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures/Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
Y2 - 20 March 2010 through 28 March 2010
ER -