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<div class=""> The 12th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement</div>
<div class="">Co-located with the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering,</div>
<div class=""> ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia and online, 14--20 May 2023</div>
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<div class=""> <a href="http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/events/icse2023" class="">http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/events/icse2023</a></div>
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<div class="">Important Dates:</div>
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<div class="">Submission: 13 Jan 2023</div>
<div class="">Notification: 24 Feb 2023</div>
<div class="">Camera-ready: 17 Mar 2023</div>
<div class="">Workshop: 14-20 May 2023 (one day)</div>
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<div class="">Submission:</div>
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<div class="">Submit anonymised (double blind) PDF in IEEE conference proceedings format</div>
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<div class="">Research and Position Papers:</div>
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<div class=""> * Research papers (limit eight pages)</div>
<div class=""> * Position papers (limit two pages)</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest:</div>
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<div class="">Research and applications include, but are not limited to,</div>
<div class="">using Genetic Improvement to:</div>
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<div class=""> * Improve efficiency</div>
<div class=""> * Decrease memory consumption</div>
<div class=""> * Decrease energy consumption</div>
<div class=""> * Transplant new functionality</div>
<div class=""> * Specialise software</div>
<div class=""> * Translate between programming languages</div>
<div class=""> * Generate multiple versions of software</div>
<div class=""> * Improve low level or binary code</div>
<div class=""> * Improve SE documentation, specification, training and educational</div>
<div class=""> tools and techniques </div>
<div class=""> * Improve software engineering artifacts, e.g., documentation,</div>
<div class=""> specification, training and educational tools, materials and techniques</div>
<div class=""> * Repair bugs</div>
<div class=""> * GI techniques in industrial settings</div>
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<div class="">Keynote speaker:</div>
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<div class="">Dr. Myra B. Cohen, Iowa State University (USA)</div>
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<div class="">Students travel awards:</div>
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<div class="">Up to five student travel awards</div>
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<div class="">2 prizes:</div>
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<div class=""> * a prize will be awarded to the presenter who gives</div>
<div class=""> the best presentation at the workshop.</div>
<div class=""> * a prize will be given for the best paper.</div>
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<div class="">Both prizes will be awarded at the workshop which will be held in</div>
<div class="">hybrid mode both in Melbourne, Australia and virtually on the Internet</div>
<div class="">as part of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering</div>
<div class="">ICSE 2023.</div>
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<div class="">Workshop Chairs:</div>
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<div class="">Vesna Nowack <a href="mailto:v.nowack@imperial.ac.uk" class="">v.nowack@imperial.ac.uk</a></div>
<div class="">Markus Wagner <a href="mailto:markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au" class="">markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au</a></div>
<div class="">Gabin An <a href="mailto:agb94@kaist.ac.kr" class="">agb94@kaist.ac.kr</a></div>
<div class="">Aymeric Blot <a href="mailto:aymeric.blot@univ-littoral.fr" class="">
aymeric.blot@univ-littoral.fr</a></div>
<div class="">Justyna Petke <a href="mailto:j.petke@ucl.ac.uk" class="">j.petke@ucl.ac.uk</a></div>
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<div class="">The full call for submissions:</div>
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<div class="">We invite submissions that discuss recent developments in all areas of</div>
<div class="">research on, and applications of, Genetic Improvement.</div>
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<div class="">GI is the premier workshop in the field and provides an opportunity</div>
<div class="">for researchers interested in automated program repair and software</div>
<div class="">optimisation to disseminate their work, exchange ideas and discover</div>
<div class="">new research directions.</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest include both the theory and practice of </div>
<div class="">Genetic Improvement. Applications include, but are not limited to,</div>
<div class="">using GI to:</div>
<div class=""> * Improve efficiency</div>
<div class=""> * Decrease memory consumption</div>
<div class=""> * Decrease energy consumption</div>
<div class=""> * Transplant new functionality</div>
<div class=""> * Specialise software</div>
<div class=""> * Translate between programming languages</div>
<div class=""> * Generate multiple versions of software</div>
<div class=""> * Improve low level or binary code</div>
<div class=""> * Improve SE documentation, specification, training and educational</div>
<div class=""> tools and techniques </div>
<div class=""> * Improve software engineering artifacts, e.g., documentation,</div>
<div class=""> specification, training and educational tools, materials and techniques</div>
<div class=""> * Repair bugs</div>
<div class=""> * GI techniques in industrial settings</div>
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<div class="">Keynote: </div>
<div class=""> The keynote will be given by Dr. Myra B. Cohen head of</div>
<div class=""> Iowa State's LaVA-Ops, Laboratory for Variability-Aware Assurance</div>
<div class=""> and Testing of Organic Programs.</div>
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<div class=""> The invited keynote presentation will be given by Myra Cohen.</div>
<div class=""> Dr. Cohen is a full professor at Iowa State University (USA), where</div>
<div class=""> she holds the Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering in</div>
<div class=""> the Department of Computer Science. She is head of Iowa State's</div>
<div class=""> LaVA-Ops, Laboratory for Variability-Aware Assurance and Testing of</div>
<div class=""> Organic Programs. As well as genetic improvement, her research covers</div>
<div class=""> software testing of highly-configurable software, SBSE, applications</div>
<div class=""> of combinatorial designs (CIT), and the synergy between systems and</div>
<div class=""> synthetic biology and software engineering. She has served on many</div>
<div class=""> software engineering conferences, including this year as the</div>
<div class=""> Technical Briefings-track chair of ICSE 2023.</div>
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<div class="">Hybrid Event:</div>
<div class=""> Due to the continued COVID19 pandemic, as with GI 2020-22, the</div>
<div class=""> workshop may be held online with recordings available on YouTube.</div>
<div class=""> Eg <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI8fiFpB7BoIHgl5CsdtjfWvHlE5N6pje" class="">
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI8fiFpB7BoIHgl5CsdtjfWvHlE5N6pje</a></div>
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<div class="">Students travel awards:</div>
<div class=""> We are pleased to announce that we will offer up to 5 awards</div>
<div class=""> of up to $250(USD) each to partially reimburse travel costs for</div>
<div class=""> students whose work is presented at the GI@ICSE 2023 workshop.</div>
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<div class=""> Priority will be given based on the student's need and submission</div>
<div class=""> quality.</div>
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<div class=""> Students applying for an award should submit a first-author</div>
<div class=""> regular full paper to the genetic improvement workshop.</div>
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<div class=""> Moreover, their supervisor should send a one-paragraph note of</div>
<div class=""> recommendation to Dr. Vesna Nowack <a href="mailto:v.nowack@imperial.ac.uk" class="">
v.nowack@imperial.ac.uk</a></div>
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<div class=""> * the student's area of work.</div>
<div class=""> * the supervisor's support of the student's application.</div>
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<div class=""> These awards are available thanks to the EPSRC grant on</div>
<div class=""> "Automated Software Specialisation Using Genetic Improvement"</div>
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<div class="">We encourage authors to submit early and in-progress work.</div>
<div class="">The workshop emphasises interaction and discussion.</div>
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<div class="">All papers should be submitted electronically as PDFs via HotCRP</div>
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<div class="">double-blind as PDFs in the ICSE conference format. All accepted</div>
<div class="">papers must be presented at GI 2023 and will appear in the ICSE</div>
<div class="">workshops volume. The official publication date of the workshop</div>
<div class="">proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available by IEEE.</div>
<div class="">This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2023.</div>
<div class="">The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent</div>
<div class="">filings related to published work.</div>
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<div class="">Details about the Genetic Improvement workshop can be found via:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/events/icse2023" class="">http://geneticimprovementofsoftware.com/events/icse2023</a></div>
<div class="">The webpage contains GI papers, blogs, success stories, a living survey, tools,</div>
<div class="">benchmarks, people, GitHub, as well as past events, tutorials and</div>
<div class="">workshops.</div>
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<div class="">Details about ICSE 2023 can be found at the web page:</div>
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<div class="">Kind regards,</div>
<div class="">Vesna Nowack</div>
<div class="">On behalf of the GI@ICSE'23 Workshop chairs</div>
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