On parameter tuning in search based software engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6956 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 33-47

  Arcuri, Andrea ^a   Fraser, Gordon ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

object oriented; Search based software engineering; test data generation; unit testing

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; OBJECT ORIENTED; OVERFITTING; PARAMETER SETTING; PARAMETER-TUNING; POPULATION SIZES; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SELECTION MECHANISM; TEST DATA GENERATION; UNIT TESTING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 80052895933     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23716-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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