The human competitiveness of search based software engineering

Proceedings - 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 143-152

  De Souza, Jerffeson Teixeira ^a   Maia, Camila Loiola ^a   De Freitas, Fabrício Gomes ^a   Coutinho, Daniel Pinto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Human competitiveness; Human subjects; SBSE; Search based software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HUMAN COMPETITIVENESS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; META HEURISTICS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI-OBJECTIVE TESTS; PROBLEM FORMULATION; PROBLEM INSTANCES; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; SBSE; SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORKGROUPS;

COMPETITION; ENGINEERING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78649773941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSBSE.2010.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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