Patterns for Constructing Mutation Operators: Limiting the Search Space in a Software Engineering Application

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@InProceedings{Kuehne:2016:EuroGP,

• author = "Thomas Kuehne and Heiko Hamann and Svetlana Arifulina and Gregor Engels",
• title = "Patterns for Constructing Mutation Operators: Limiting the Search Space in a Software Engineering Application",
• booktitle = "EuroGP 2016: Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Genetic Programming",
• year = "2016",
• month = "30 " # mar # "--1 " # apr,
• editor = "Malcolm I. Heywood and James McDermott and Mauro Castelli and Ernesto Costa and Kevin Sim",
• series = "LNCS",
• volume = "9594",
• publisher = "Springer Verlag",
• address = "Porto, Portugal",
• pages = "278--293",
• organisation = "EvoStar",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• isbn13 = "978-3-319-30668-1",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30668-1_18",
• abstract = "We apply methods of genetic programming to a general problem from software engineering, namely example-based generation of specifications. In particular, we focus on model transformation by example. The definition and implementation of model transformations is a task frequently carried out by domain experts, hence, a (semi-)automatic approach is desirable. This application is challenging because the underlying search space has rich semantics, is high-dimensional, and unstructured. Hence, a computationally brute-force approach would be unscalable and potentially infeasible. To address that problem, we develop a sophisticated approach of designing complex mutation operators. We define patterns for constructing mutation operators and report a successful case study. Furthermore, the code of the evolved model transformation is required to have high maintainability and extensibility, that is, the code should be easily readable by domain experts. We report an evaluation of this approach in a software engineering case study.",
• notes = "Part of \cite{Heywood:2016:GP} EuroGP'2016 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2016, EvoMusArt2016 and EvoApplications2016",

}

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