The 4th CREST Open Workshop: Operational Research for Software Engineering Method (ORSEM COW)

Call for participation The 4th CREST Open Workshop (ORSEM COW) Operational Research for Software Engineering Method http://crest.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/cow/pages/cows/4.php Date/Time: 26th February, 2010 CREST Centre, King's College London Registration deadline: 15th February, 2010 Please register at: http://crest.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/cow/pages/reg.php Keynote: Hyper-heuristics: An Emerging Direction in Search Methodology Edmund Burke University of Nottingham, UK The purpose of this workshop is to explore synergies between OR and software engineering. If you want to do some background reading might look here: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/technical-reports/papers/TR-09-03.pdf Search Based Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Analysis and Review of Trends Techniques and Applications Mark Harman, S. Afshin Mansouri and Yuanyuan Zhang, April 9, 2009 Workshop Programme: 26-Feb 12:15 Arrival & Sandwich Lunch 13:00 Welcome to CREST Open Workshop Mark Harman, CREST Centre, UK 13:15 Keynote: Hyper-heuristics: An Emerging Direction in Search Methodology Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK 14:15 Some Applications of Optimization to Software Engineering Problems Shin Yoo, CREST Centre, UK Interactive Multiobjective Portfolio Selection Nikos Argyris, LSE, UK 15:15 Refreshments 15:45 High/ Low Search Games Steven Alpern, LSE, UK Multicriteria Decision Analysis Larry Phillips, LSE, UK Approximate Dynamic Programming Katerina Papadaki, LSE, UK 17:15 Discussion 17:45 Wrap up 18:00 Close More details on the CREST Open Workshop Website at: http://crest.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/cow