COW65: Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement
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mech...@gmail.com
Jul 4, 2023, 8:59:37 AM7/4/23
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The CREST group at UCL is organising the CREST Open Workshop (COW): Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement. It will be on Monday September 18th and Tuesday 19th 2023 at University College Lodon, London, UK. This workshop, organised by Dr. Sergey Mechtaev, Dr. Justyna Petke, Dr. Maria Kechagia, and Nikhil Parasaram, will focus on "Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement"
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/mar/63rd-crest-open-workshop-genetic-improvement-and-software-specialisation
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/past_events/
As you will see, we try to provide a useful archive of talks, not just slides, but videos too and more recently, live blogging and the use of social networking media, to allow the widest community to be involved, both during and after the event. We typically have between 35 and 50 attendees. For some previous events this has sadly meant that we have had to turn away registrations, but it is important that we have a workshop feel to the event and, of course, that we have a very nice room too.
Talks will be a *maximum* of 20 minutes long with plenty of time for questions and discussion. We also hope that the workshop will foster and promote collaboration, and there will be time set aside to support this.
Participants are expected to attend the whole event in person since the workshop is interactive and discursive. There is no registration fee, due to kind support of UKRI
EPSRC's fellowship grant on "Automated Software Specialisation Using Genetic Improvement" (https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P023991/1). Light lunches, will be included, along with the usual
refreshments all at no charge.
The registration of interest is currently open, and there is information about the speakers and talks on our website.
Confirmed speakers:
Claire Le Gouse, Carnegie Mellon
University Lin Tan, Purdue University Lingming Zhang,
University of Illinois Michele Tufano, Microsoft Research
Matias Martinez, Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya-BarcelonaTech Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, University
of Luxembourg Saemundur Haraldson, University of Sterling
Vesna Nowack, Imperial College London Serkan Kirbas,
Bloomberg Gunel Jahangirova, King's College London Jie
Zhang, King's College London
More to follow
65th COW registration of interest to attend is now open via:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
With very best wishes,
Maria, Nikhil, Sergey, and Justyna
***************************************************************
** Policy on Student Registrations **
***************************************************************
We welcome registrations from PhD students, where the
student is pursuing a programme of research for which the
COW will provide intellectual benefit and/or from whom the
workshop and its other attendees will gain benefit. We do
not normally expect to register students other than those on
PhD level programmes of study. For example, those students
taking a course at the equivalent of UK masters or bachelors
level would not, ordinarily, be considered eligible to
register for COW. However, we are willing to consider
exceptional cases, where a masters or bachelors student has
a clear contribution to make to the topic of the COW. In all
cases, students must have the approval of their
supervisor/advisor for their attendance at the COW and their
consent to the terms of registration. This is why we ask
that students seeking to register for a COW also supply the
contact details of their supervisor.
***************************************************************
** Cancellation Fee **
***************************************************************
Mainly through the kind support of the EPSRC in the form of
a fellowship grant, we have funding to support the
workshops, so registration is free. However, please
appreciate that numbers are limited and catering needs to be
booked in advance, so registration followed by
non-attendance will cause difficulties. For this reason,
though the workshop is entirely free of charge, there will
be a cancellation fee of £100 for those who register but
subsequently fail to attend.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
Program repair has the potential to reduce the significant manual effort that developers devote to finding and fixing software bugs. Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth of research in program repair. Researchers have proposed a large number of techniques aimed to address fundamental challenges of program repair such as scalability and test-overfitting, and have successfully deployed program repair in industry. One of the techniques that has been used in the repair field has been genetic improvement. GI uses automated search in order to improve existing software. Aside from bug fixing, GI has been used to optimise other software properties, such as runtime, memory and energy consumption. It has also been used for other kinds of improvement such as specialising and porting. The goal of this workshop is to reflect on the progress that the research community has made over the last years in those two closely related fields, share experience in research and deployment, and identify key challenges that need to be addressed in future research.
All talks at this workshop are by invitation only. The workshop is part of the CREST Open Workshop (COW) programme (http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow).
CREST is the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and Testing, founded in 2006. The CREST Open Workshop (COW) Programme started in 2009 and has attracted over 2249
attendees from around 300 institutions, spread over 42 countries. You can see the events we have run in the past here:
Program repair has the potential to reduce the significant manual effort that developers devote to finding and fixing software bugs. Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth of research in program repair. Researchers have proposed a large number of techniques aimed to address fundamental challenges of program repair such as scalability and test-overfitting, and have successfully deployed program repair in industry. One of the techniques that has been used in the repair field has been genetic improvement. GI uses automated search in order to improve existing software. Aside from bug fixing, GI has been used to optimise other software properties, such as runtime, memory and energy consumption. It has also been used for other kinds of improvement such as specialising and porting. The goal of this workshop is to reflect on the progress that the research community has made over the last years in those two closely related fields, share experience in research and deployment, and identify key challenges that need to be addressed in future research.
All talks at this workshop are by invitation only. The workshop is part of the CREST Open Workshop (COW) programme (http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow).
CREST is the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and Testing, founded in 2006. The CREST Open Workshop (COW) Programme started in 2009 and has attracted over 2249
attendees from around 300 institutions, spread over 42 countries. You can see the events we have run in the past here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/mar/63rd-crest-open-workshop-genetic-improvement-and-software-specialisation
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/past_events/
As you will see, we try to provide a useful archive of talks, not just slides, but videos too and more recently, live blogging and the use of social networking media, to allow the widest community to be involved, both during and after the event. We typically have between 35 and 50 attendees. For some previous events this has sadly meant that we have had to turn away registrations, but it is important that we have a workshop feel to the event and, of course, that we have a very nice room too.
Talks will be a *maximum* of 20 minutes long with plenty of time for questions and discussion. We also hope that the workshop will foster and promote collaboration, and there will be time set aside to support this.
Participants are expected to attend the whole event in person since the workshop is interactive and discursive. There is no registration fee, due to kind support of UKRI
EPSRC's fellowship grant on "Automated Software Specialisation Using Genetic Improvement" (https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P023991/1). Light lunches, will be included, along with the usual
refreshments all at no charge.
The registration of interest is currently open, and there is information about the speakers and talks on our website.
Confirmed speakers:
Claire Le Gouse, Carnegie Mellon
University Lin Tan, Purdue University Lingming Zhang,
University of Illinois Michele Tufano, Microsoft Research
Matias Martinez, Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya-BarcelonaTech Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, University
of Luxembourg Saemundur Haraldson, University of Sterling
Vesna Nowack, Imperial College London Serkan Kirbas,
Bloomberg Gunel Jahangirova, King's College London Jie
Zhang, King's College London
More to follow
65th COW registration of interest to attend is now open via:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
With very best wishes,
Maria, Nikhil, Sergey, and Justyna
***************************************************************
** Policy on Student Registrations **
***************************************************************
We welcome registrations from PhD students, where the
student is pursuing a programme of research for which the
COW will provide intellectual benefit and/or from whom the
workshop and its other attendees will gain benefit. We do
not normally expect to register students other than those on
PhD level programmes of study. For example, those students
taking a course at the equivalent of UK masters or bachelors
level would not, ordinarily, be considered eligible to
register for COW. However, we are willing to consider
exceptional cases, where a masters or bachelors student has
a clear contribution to make to the topic of the COW. In all
cases, students must have the approval of their
supervisor/advisor for their attendance at the COW and their
consent to the terms of registration. This is why we ask
that students seeking to register for a COW also supply the
contact details of their supervisor.
***************************************************************
** Cancellation Fee **
***************************************************************
Mainly through the kind support of the EPSRC in the form of
a fellowship grant, we have funding to support the
workshops, so registration is free. However, please
appreciate that numbers are limited and catering needs to be
booked in advance, so registration followed by
non-attendance will cause difficulties. For this reason,
though the workshop is entirely free of charge, there will
be a cancellation fee of £100 for those who register but
subsequently fail to attend.
mech...@gmail.com
Aug 2, 2023, 1:09:22 PM8/2/23
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Dear Colleagues,
The registration for COW65 is closing on August 16th. Please register here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/events/2023/sep/65th-crest-open-workshop-automated-program-repair-and-genetic-improvement-0
Regards,
Sergey
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