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 …

An analysis of quality indicators using approximated optimal distributions in a 3-D objective space

R Tanabe, H Ishibuchi - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although quality indicators play a crucial role in benchmarking evolutionary multiobjective
optimization algorithms, their properties are still unclear. One promising approach for …

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 …

Many-objective test suite generation for software product lines

RM Hierons, M Li, X Liu, JA Parejo, S Segura… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A Software Product Line (SPL) is a set of products built from a number of features, the set of
valid products being defined by a feature model. Typically, it does not make sense to test all …

Novel computing paradigms for parameter estimation in power signal models

A Mehmood, NI Chaudhary, A Zameer… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
The strength of evolutionary computational heuristic paradigms is exploited for parameter
estimation of power signal modeling problems by incorporating differential evolution (DE) …

Do quality indicators prefer particular multi-objective search algorithms in search-based software engineering?

S Ali, P Arcaini, T Yue - International Symposium on Search Based …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), users typically select a set of Multi-
Objective Search Algorithms (MOSAs) for their experiments without any justification, or they …

A universal strengthened searching module for multi-objective optimization based on variable properties

A Pan, L Wang, W Guo - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous algorithms have been introduced in solving multi-/many-objective optimization
problems. However, some rigorous elite definitions may result in the side-effect that new …