All Outputs (42)

A comparison of meta-heuristic search for interactive software design (2013)
Journal Article

Advances in processing capacity, coupled with the desire to tackle problems where a human subjective judgment plays an important role in determining the value of a proposed solution, has led to a dramatic rise in the number of applications of Interac... Read More about A comparison of meta-heuristic search for interactive software design.

A comparison of two memetic algorithms for software class modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent research has demonstrated that the problem of class
modelling within early cycle object orientated software engineering can be successfully tackled by posing it as a search problem to be tackled with meta-heuristics. This “Search Based Softwa... Read More about A comparison of two memetic algorithms for software class modelling.

Whither (away) software engineers in SBSE? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This challenges and open problems paper discusses the role of software engineers when combining modeling with Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE). With SBSE techniques increasingly providing insights into difficult software modeling problems, th... Read More about Whither (away) software engineers in SBSE?.

Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation (2012)
Journal Article

Design is fundamental to software development but can be demanding to perform. Thus, to assist the software designer, evolutionary computing is being increasingly applied using machine-based, quantitative fitness functions to evolve software designs.... Read More about Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation.

A comparison of evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimization for interactive software design (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper

Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

User-centered Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) has been applied to a wide variety of areas, including UML software design. The performance of evolutionary search is important as user interaction fatigue remains an on-going challenge in IEC.... Read More about Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design.

Interactive, evolutionary search in upstream Object-oriented class design (2010)
Journal Article

Although much evidence exists to suggest that early life cycle software engineering design is a difficult task for software engineers to perform, current computational tool support for software engineers is limited. To address this limitation, intera... Read More about Interactive, evolutionary search in upstream Object-oriented class design.

An empirical investigation of search-based computational support for conceptual software engineering design (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conceptual software engineering design is an intensely people-oriented and non-trivial activity, yet current
computational tool support is limited. While a number of search-based software engineering approaches to support software design have been r... Read More about An empirical investigation of search-based computational support for conceptual software engineering design.

An empirical investigation of search-based computational support for conceptual software engineering design (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agent-based support for interactive search in conceptual software engineering design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agent-based support for interactive search in conceptual software design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While recent attempts to search a conceptual software engineering design search space with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have yielded promising results, the practical application of such search-based techniques remains to be addressed. This... Read More about Agent-based support for interactive search in conceptual software design.

User-centered, evolutionary search in conceptual software design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

User-centered, evolutionary search in conceptual software design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Although much evidence exists to suggest that conceptual software engineering design is a difficult task for
software engineers to perform, current computationally
intelligent tool support for software engineers is limited. While search-based appro... Read More about User-centered, evolutionary search in conceptual software design.

Discovery in design: People-centred computational issues (2007)
Book Chapter

The Designing for the 21st Century Initiative is a joint EPSRC/AHRC multi-disciplinary collaborative investigation supporting a variety of clusters of design research. The Discovery in Design: People-centred Computational Issues cluster is significan... Read More about Discovery in design: People-centred computational issues.

A cross-disciplinary technology transfer for search-based evolutionary computing: From engineering design to software engineering design (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Although object-oriented conceptual software design is difficult to learn and perform, computational tool support for the conceptual software designer is limited. In conceptual engineering design, however, computational tools exploiting interactive e... Read More about A cross-disciplinary technology transfer for search-based evolutionary computing: From engineering design to software engineering design.

Discovery in design: Developing a people-centred computational approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Multi-objective genetic algorithms in object-oriented conceptual software design (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A forward look at computational support for conceptual design (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Future research needs for computational support for conceptual design are examined. The material is the result of the work of a so called design cluster. The cluster has, through a series of workshops, defined what it believes are the salient areas i... Read More about A forward look at computational support for conceptual design.

35 years on: To what extent has software engineering design achieved its goals? (2003)
Journal Article

The term 'software engineering' was coined in 1968 to introduce the disciplines of established branches of engineering design to software manufacture. Some 35 years on, this paper attempts to gauge the success of software engineering against its orig... Read More about 35 years on: To what extent has software engineering design achieved its goals?.