Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:08:30 +0200
Subject: 11 October 2012, 13:00, L017: Bill Langdon followed by Andrei Varanovich
From: Vadim Zaytsev
To: PEM, SWAT, SEN4, Sander Bohte, Ralf Lämmel, Andrei Varanovich

Dear environmentalists,

Today is a special week: we have our PEM Colloquium on Thursday
instead of Friday, but we have two presentations, both of them by
invited speakers.

The first speaker is Bill Langdon from UCL, invited by Sander Bohte from MAC4.
The second speaker is Andrei Varanovich from Universität Koblenz,
invited by Ralf Lämmel, who is currently hosted by SEN1.

 Date: 11 October 2012 (Thursday!)
 Time: 13:00-15:00 (at most)
 Room: L017
 Speaker1: Bill Langdon (UCL)
 Title1: Genetic Improvement Programming
 Speaker2: Andrei Varanovich (Uni Koblenz-Landau)
 Title2: Modeling the Linguistic Architecture of Software Products
 Abstracts: see below

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          Genetic Improvement Programming

Evolutionary computing, particularly genetic programming, can optimise
software and software engineering, including evolving test benchmarks,
search meta-heuristics, protocols, composing web services, improving
hashing and garbage collection, redundant programming and even
automatically fixing bugs. Often there are many potential ways to
balance functionality with resource consumption. But a human
programmer cannot try them all. Also the optimal trade off may be
different on each hardware platform and it vary over time or as usage
changes. It may be genetic programming can automatically suggest
different trade offs for each new market.
Recent results include substantial speed up by generating a new
version of a program for a special case.

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Yours,
     Vadim.