The weights can be harmful: Pareto search versus weighted search in multi-objective search-based software engineering

T Chen, M Li - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In presence of multiple objectives to be optimized in Search-Based Software Engineering
(SBSE), Pareto search has been commonly adopted. It searches for a good approximation of …

How to evaluate solutions in Pareto-based search-based software engineering: A critical review and methodological guidance

M Li, T Chen, X Yao - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple
objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a …

Quality indicators in search-based software engineering: An empirical evaluation

S Ali, P Arcaini, D Pradhan, SA Safdar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) researchers who apply multi-objective search
algorithms (MOSAs) often assess the quality of solutions produced by MOSAs with one or …

A critical review of: " a practical guide to select quality indicators for assessing pareto-based search algorithms in search-based software engineering": essay on …

M Li, T Chen, X Yao - Proceedings of the 40th International Conference …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a critical review of the work published at ICSE'2016 on a practical guide
of quality indicator selection for assessing multiobjective solution sets in search-based …

A practical guide to select quality indicators for assessing pareto-based search algorithms in search-based software engineering

S Wang, S Ali, T Yue, Y Li, M Liaaen - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Many software engineering problems are multi-objective in nature, which has been largely
recognized by the Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) community. In this regard …

Pareto-optimal search-based software engineering (POSBSE): A literature survey

AS Sayyad, H Ammar - 2013 2nd International Workshop on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) community is increasingly recognizing the
inherit “multiobjectiveness” in Software Engineering problems. The old ways of aggregating …

A survey of many-objective optimisation in search-based software engineering

A Ramirez, JR Romero, S Ventura - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
Search-based software engineering (SBSE) is changing the way traditional software
engineering (SE) activities are carried out by reformulating them as optimisation problems …

Search-based software engineering: Trends, techniques and applications

M Harman, SA Mansouri, Y Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2012 - dl.acm.org
In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based …

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

M Harman, A Mansouri - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2010 - staff.fmi.uvt.ro
SEARCH Based Software Engineering (SBSE) consists of the application of search-based
optimization to software engineering. Using SBSE, a software engineering task is formulated …

“Sampling” as a baseline optimizer for search-based software engineering

J Chen, V Nair, R Krishna… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly, Software Engineering (SE) researchers use search-based optimization
techniques to solve SE problems with multiple conflicting objectives. These techniques often …