The 24th CREST Open Workshop

Machine Learning and Search Based Software Engineering (ML&SBSE)

Date: 30 - 31 January 2013

Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL (Directions, or 'C5' on the map here, or Find it on Google maps.)

Overview:

Machine learning has developed rapidly in recent years, providing rigorous methods and scalability to large data sets. In particular, there has been an explosion of interest in the bandit approach, helping us to better understand the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in optimisation. This trade-off is key to the search based approaches that have found much recent uptake in Software Engineering through the development of the Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) research agenda. This workshop will bring together researchers working on Machine Learning, Search Based Optimisation and Software Engineering to explore new approaches to analyse, understand and improve optimisation techniques for Software Engineering.

Programme: (Downloadable Programme in PDF)

+++++++++30 January 2013 – DAY 1+++++++++

10:00 Arrival, Coffee and Pastries

10:30 Welcome and Introductions (Video , Introductions)

Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

11:15 A overview of SBSE (Slides, Video)

Shin Yoo, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

12:15 Multi-armed bandits and Monte-Carlo tree search for system control under uncertainty (Slides, Video)

Michele Sebag, Université Paris Sud, France

13:15 Sandwich lunch at the venue

14:15 Bandit algorithms for Online Linear Optimization (Slides, Video)

Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

14:45 Discussion

15:00 Local Search for MAXSAT: Constant time moves and constant time lookahead for very large problems

Darrell Whitley, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, USA

15:30 Discussion

15:45 Refreshments

16:30 Active Learning for Multi-Objective Optimization

Andreas Krause, Learning & Adaptive Systems Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

17:00 Discussion

18:00 Wrap up

18:15 Light Dinner at the Marlborough Arms

+++++++++31 January 2013 – Day 2+++++++++

9:30 Arrival, Coffee and Pastries

10:00 Characterizing the Windows Software Development Environment

Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

10:30 Discussion

10:45 Over the Horizon: ML+SBSE = What? (Slides, Video)

Tim Menzies, Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, USA

11:15 Discussion

11:30 Refreshments

12:00 Software Effort Estimation as a Multi-objective Learning Problem (Slides)

Leandro Minku, CERCIA, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

12:30 Discussion

12:45 Sandwich lunch at the venue

13:45 Machine Learning, the silver bullet?

Ahmed E. Hassan, School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada

14:15 Discussion

14:30 Assessing the predictive performance of machine learners in software engineering (Slides, Video)

Martin Shepperd, Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK

15:00 Discussion

15:15 Refreshments

15:45 Sex as Gibbs Sampling: Modelling Evolution with a Tractable Markov Chain (Slides, Video)

Chris Watkins, Department of Computer Science in Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

16:15 Discussion

16:30 Reinforcement Learning and Simulation-based Search (Slides, Video)

David Silver, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

16.45 Discussion

17:00 Wrap-up

17:15 Close

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This workshop is supported by the following sponsors:

Registered Attendees: (This workshop is full and registation is closed)

Mikhail Afanasov, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dalal Alrajeh, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Arosha K. Bandara, Department of Computing, The Open University, UK
David Bowes, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Yvonne Buttkewitz, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Luca Cavallaro, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Kleopatra Chatziprimou, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
T. Y. Chen, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Artur d'Avila Garcez, School of Informatics, City University London, UK
Huyen Do, AI lab, Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dionysios Efstathiou, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Robert Feldt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Nicolas Gold, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Tihana Galinac Grbac, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Rachel Harrison, Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Ahmed E. Hassan, School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada
Claudia Iacob, Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Syed Islam, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Yue Jia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Derek Jones, Knowledge Software, UK
Andreas Krause, Learning & Adaptive Systems Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bill Langdon, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Emmanuel Letier, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Hui Liu, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL and Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Lech Madeyski, Institute of Informatics I-32, Software Engineering Department, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Valerio Maggio, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
George Magoulas, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College , UK
Tim Menzies, Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, USA
Leandro Minku, CERCIA, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Bashar Nuseibeh, Department of Computing, The Open University, UK
Gabriela Ochoa, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, UK
Justyna Petke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Lukasz Radlinski, Institute of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Poland
Daniel Rodríguez, Department of Computer Science, University of Alcalá, Spain
Alessandra Russo, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Federica Sarro, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Marc Schoenauer, INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France, Université Paris Sud, France
Michele Sebag, Équipe A-O - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, France
John Shawe-Taylor, Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Martin Shepperd, Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK
Liyan Song, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Daniel Sykes, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Richard Torkar, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Thein Tun, Department of Statistical Science, UCL/ Department of Computing, The Open University, UK
Varsha Veerappa, Faculty Of Technology, Design And Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Chris Watkins, Department of Computer Science in Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Darrell Whitley, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, USA
Jing-Hao Xue, Department of Statistical Science, UCL, UK
Shin Yoo, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
Yijun Yu, Department of Computing/Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK
Yuanyuan Zhang, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

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