Genetic Improvement @ ICSE 2023
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William B. Langdon, Vesna Nowack, Justyna Petke, 
Markus Wagner, Hyeonseok Lee, Erik M. Fredericks, Gabin An, Aymeric BlotAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
Following the formal presentations, which included keynotes by Prof. Myra B. Cohen of Iowa State University and Dr. Sebastian Baltes of SAP as well as six papers (which are recorded in the pro- ceedings) there was a wide ranging discussion at the twelfth inter- national Genetic Improvement workshop, GI-2023 @ ICSE held on Saturday 20th May 2023 in Melbourne and online via Zoom. Topics included GI to improve testing, and remove unpleasant surprises in cloud computing costs, incorporating novelty search, large language models (LLM ANN) and GI benchmarks.
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