REMINDER: Research in Computer Science Seminar (RICSS) for Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:00 noon

[Gregory M. Kapfhammer]

Hello Again Everyone,

I am pleased to report that our speaker, Phil McMinn, has safely
arrived in the USA after a lengthy trip involving bad weather,
flight cancellations, and a car trip from Detriot's airport!

On behalf of the Department of Computer Science, the Allegheny
College Student Chapter of the ACM, and the Research in Computer
Science Seminar, I would like to remind you about today's talk.

I look forward to seeing you in Campus Center 301/302 at 12 noon!

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:34:10 -0400
From: "Gregory M. Kapfhammer" <gkap...@allegheny.edu>
To: ri...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Research in Computer Science Seminar (RICSS) for Wednesday, October
31, 2012 at 12:00 noon

Hello Everyone,

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming session of the
Research in Computer Science Seminar (RICSS), jointly sponsored by
the Allegheny College Student Chapter of the ACM.

Please pass this invitation on to other students, staff, and
faculty members who would be interested in attending the upcoming
talk. Since the session is at lunch time, all attendees are
encouraged to bring their lunch to the presentation.

Light refreshments will be provided!

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Location: Campus Center Rooms 301 and 302
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Presenter:

Phil McMinn
University of Sheffield
http://philmcminn.staff.shef.ac.uk/

Title:

Search-based Software Testing:
Automating Software Testing Using Heuristic Algorithms

Abstract:

Software testing is a demanding, laborious and expensive process
that involves tasks that are difficult to automate. This talk
introduces search-based testing, a technique which reformulates
testing problems as fitness functions, so that classical
optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithms may be used to
address them. Instead of exhaustively enumerating the set of
possible solutions to a problem or attempting to solve a limited
version of it perfectly, search-based approaches instead seek to
evolve solutions that are 'fit for purpose' -- as dictated by the
fitness function.

Presenter Biography:

Phil McMinn is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the
University of Sheffield, UK, where he has been a faculty member
since October 2006. He was awarded his PhD from Sheffield in
January 2005, which was funded by DaimlerChrysler Research and
Technology. McMinn's research interests cover software testing
in general, program transformation, and agent-based systems and
modelling. He has published many papers in the field of
search-based testing, including a survey paper that, according to
Google Scholar, has been cited nearly 600 times.

All are welcome to attend!

More details about RICSS are available at:

http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/RICSS/

Kind Regards,

Greg

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Dr. Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Allegheny College
Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Office: +1 814-332-2880
gkapfham(at)allegheny(dot)edu
http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/
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