The relationship between search based software engineering and predictive modeling

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  Harman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPEN PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SEARCH-BASED; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MODELS;

EID: 78649767913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868328.1868330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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