Abstract:Abstract. The Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) field has emerged as an exciting and promising area by proposing the formulation of software engineering problems as optimization problems. Hitherto, metaheuristics have been widely employed for solving these problems, whilst little work has been done regarding the use of exact techniques in the area. This paper aims to fulfil this lack by presenting a comprehensive study on the theory and practice of the application of exact optimization in SBSE. A concep… Show more
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