Empirical study on the effect of crossover in genetic software architecture synthesis

2009 World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, NABIC 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 619-625

  Räihä, Outi ^a   Koskimies, Kai ^a   Mäkinen, Erkki ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Search based software engineering; Sexual and asexual reproduction; Software architecture; Software design

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DEPENDENCY GRAPHS; DESIGN PATTERNS; DOMAIN MODEL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SAMPLE SYSTEM; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SEXUAL AND ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN;

ANIMALS; ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77949572439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NABIC.2009.5393431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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