The Gamma language is based on the chemical reaction metaphor which has a number of benefits with respect to parallelism and program derivation. But the original definition of G...
Dedicated operating systems for embedded systems are fast being phased out due to their use of manual optimization, which provides high performance and small footprint, but also r...
—When a program is modified during software evolution, developers typically run the new version of the program against its existing test suite to validate that the changes made ...
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
Evolutionary methods have been used to repair programs automatically, with promising results. However, the fitness function used to achieve these results was based on a few simpl...
Ethan Fast, Claire Le Goues, Stephanie Forrest, We...