[DMANET] 11th International Summer School on Software Engineering - Topic: Search-Based Software Engineering

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11th International Summer School on Software Engineering

30 June - 3 July, 2014
University of Salerno, Italy
http://www.sesa.unisa.it/seschool


THEME

The eleventh edition of the International Summer School on Software
Engineering intends to provide a contribution to PhD students
and academic and industrial researchers on latest findings in the
field of Software Engineering.

This year the school will be jointly organised by University of
Salerno and UCL-CREST and will have as topic Search-Based
Software Engineering (SBSE).

SBSE is a field in which search based optimisation algorithms are used
to address problems in Software Engineering. In particular, SBSE considers
problems that involve finding a suitable balance between competing and
potentially conflicting goals, such as looking for the set of requirements
that balances software development cost and customer satisfaction,
search for the best allocation of resources to a software development
project, search for the smallest set of test cases that covers all branches
in a software program, find the best way to structure the architecture
of a software system to enhance its maintainability, and so on.

SBSE has been successfully applied to different problems across
the Software Engineering lifecycle, from cost estimation, requirements and
project planning to testing, maintenance and re-engineering. There is also
an increasing interest in search based optimisation from the industrial
sector, as illustrated by work on testing involving Google and Microsoft,
and requirements engineering involving Motorola and Ericsson, to cite few.

The program of the school aims at creating discussion forums between
lecturers and industrial and academic attendees. It will include introductory
tutorials on SBSE as well as tutorials on well-established SBSE areas
and emerging SBSE topics. Previous knowledge or experience with search
based optimisation is not required. The main aim of the school is to allow
the attendees to become productive in successfully applying search based
optimisation to a chosen Software Engineering problem of interest.

Submission of PhD student talks is encouraged to further stimulate the discussion.
Moreover, we are pleased to announce the "ISSSE 2014 Travel Grant" to encourage also
Bachelor and Master Computer Science or Software Engineering students to attend the school.


TUTORIALS

Lionel Briand, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Search-Based Approaches to Model-Based Testing and Verification"

Andrea De Lucia, Annibale Panichella, University of Salerno
"Diversity Mechanisms for Evolutionary Populations in Search Based Software Engineering"

Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
"Search-based Software Maintenance: Automated or Human-Intensive?"

Mark Harman, CREST, University College London, United Kingdom
"Introduction to Search-Based Software Engineering"

Yue Jia, CREST, University College London, United Kingdom
"Search-Based approaches for Mutation Testing"

Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
"Search-Based Approaches and Hyper-heuristics"

Justyna Petke, CREST, University College London, United Kingdom
"Using Genetic Improvement & Code Transplants to Specialise a C++ Program to a Problem Class"

Federica Sarro, CREST, University College London, United Kingdom
"Search-Based Project Management"

Chris Simons, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
"Searching for Software Designs: A Fusion of Software Engineer and Computer"

Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
"Search-Based Test Data Generation"

David White, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
"Cloud Computing and Search-Based Software Engineering"

Yuanyuan Zhang, CREST, University College London, United Kingdom
"Multi-Objective Search-Based Requirements Selection and Optimisation"


SCHOOL LOCATION

The school will be held at the campus of the University of Salerno,
located in Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 I-84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy.
The University of Salerno is very close to some of the most beautiful
and historical places of Italy, such as Amalfi Coast, Capri, Pompei,
and Paestum.


REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

Registration fees are EUR 500 for academic and industrial
researchers and EUR 250 for PhD students (proof required).
They include admission to all the lectures, copy of the slides
and other materials prepared by the lecturers, luncheons,
and social functions.

Attendees can also register for specific tutorials. In this
case, registration fees are EUR 150 for each attended tutorial
and include admission to the registered lecture, copy of the
slides and other materials prepared by the lecturer, luncheons,
and the coffee break.

The deadline for registration is May 20, 2014.

Detailed information about program, registration, travel, and
accommodation is available at: http://www.sesa.unisa.it/seschool


STUDENT TALKS

Student talks and tool demos are intended for attendees (mainly PhD
students) who want to present their research work.
Attendees interested in giving a talk or demonstrating a tool should
register and submit the slides of their presentation by May 20, 2014.
Attendees will be notified about the inclusion of their talk/demo in
the program by June 3, 2014.

Further information is available at: http://www.sesa.unisa.it/seschool


ISSSE 2014 TRAVEL GRANT
We are pleased to announce the "ISSSE 2014 Travel Grant" to encourage bachelor
and master students to attend ISSSE 2014. We encourage all Bachelor/Master
Computer Science or related topic full time students interested to apply.

The grant will cover accommodation and travel expenses.
The deadline for applying is April 17, 2014.
For further information on Eligibility and How to apply
visit http://www.sesa.unisa.it/seschool


ORGANIZED BY

Software Engineering Lab
DISTRA (Management and Information Technology)
University of Salerno, Italy

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON EVOLUTION, SEARCH AND TESTING (CREST)
Department of Computer Science
University College London, UK


CONTACT INFORMATION

International Summer School on Software Engineering
Scientific Secretariat
University of Salerno
Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, I84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
phone: +39 089 963324
fax: +39 089 963303
e-mail: seschool@unisa.it
URL: http://www.sesa.unisa.it/seschool
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