All Outputs (3)

Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C., & Smith, J. (2016, July). Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring. Poster presented at ACM-SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO ’16, Denver, CO, USA

Preventing user-fatigue in interactive meta-heuristic search places as great an emphasis on efficiency as it does on ef- fectiveness. Engagement may also be boosted if the system provides a sense of “responsiveness” - for example, avoiding unpopular... Read More about Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring.

The truth is out there: Reflections on search in software engineering (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C. (2016, June). The truth is out there: Reflections on search in software engineering. Presented at First International Summer School on Search-Based Software Engineering, University of Cadiz, Spain

In the popular science fiction horror drama TV series "The X-Files", two FBI agents (Mulder and Skully) investigate unsolved case files relating to emerging paranormal phenomena and possible alien life. Many explanations and conspiracy theories aboun... Read More about The truth is out there: Reflections on search in software engineering.

Refactoring: 25 years on (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C. (2016, April). Refactoring: 25 years on. Presented at 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU), Bristol, UK

It’s been some 25 years since ‘refactoring’ was suggested and is now central to programming practice. But how is refactoring conducted today compared to its original notions? After a quick recap on the original ideas of refactoring, this workshop exp... Read More about Refactoring: 25 years on.