- author = "Mark Harman and Yue Jia and William B. Langdon",
- title = "Babel {Pidgin}: {SBSE} Can Grow and Graft Entirely New Functionality into a Real World System",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium, on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2014",
- year = "2014",
- editor = "Claire {Le Goues} and Shin Yoo",
- volume = "8636",
- series = "LNCS",
- pages = "247--252",
- address = "Fortaleza, Brazil",
- month = "26-29 " # aug,
- publisher = "Springer",
- note = "Winner SSBSE 2014 Challange Track",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Genetic Improvement, SBSE, GGGP, GIP, gismo",
- isbn13 = "978-3-319-09939-2",
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URL = "
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/gismo/Harman_2014_Babel.pdf",
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URL = "
http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-319-09939-2",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_20",
- size = "6 pages",
- abstract = "Adding new functionality to an existing, large, and perhaps poorly-understood system is a challenge, even for the most competent human programmer. We introduce a grow and graft approach to Genetic Improvement (GI) that transplants new functionality into an existing system. We report on the trade offs between varying degrees of human guidance to the GI transplantation process. Using our approach, we successfully grew and transplanted a new Babel Fish linguistic translation feature into the Pidgin instant messaging system, creating a genetically improved system we call Babel Pidgin. This is the first time that SBSE has been used to evolve and transplant entirely novel functionality into an existing system. Our results indicate that our grow and graft approach requires surprisingly little human guidance.",
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notes = "
SSBSE Challenge Track, Marcio Barros (organiser). http://www.ssbse.info/2014",
