Search based software engineering: Introduction to the special issue of the IEEE transactions on software engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 737-741

  Harman, Mark ^a   Mansouri, Afshin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78649914527     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.106     Document Type: Review

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