F. Peng, K. Tang, G. Chen and X. Yao. Population-based Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, accepted in December 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

K. Praditwong, M. Harman and X. Yao. Software Module Clustering as a Multi-Objective Search Problem. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, accepted in August 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Per Kristian Lehre and Xin Yao. On the impact of the mutation-selection balance on the runtime of evolutionary algorithms. In Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA'09), 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Philipp Rohlfshagen, Per Kristian Lehre, and Xin Yao. Dynamic evolutionary optimisation: An analysis of frequency and magnitude of change. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pages 1713-1720, 2009. Best Paper Award of the Theory Track. [ bib | .pdf ]

Andrea Arcuri. Insight knowledge in search based software testing. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pages 1649-1656, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Andrea Arcuri. Full theoretical runtime analysis of alternating variable method on the triangle classification problem. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 113-121, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Andrea Arcuri. On search based software evolution. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 39-42, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Zai Wang, Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, and Xin Yao. A multi-objective approach to redundancy allocation problem in parallel-series systems. In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 582-589, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Ricardo Landa-Becerra, Ramón Sagarna, and Xin Yao. An evaluation of differential evolution in software test data generation. In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 2850-2857, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Per Kristian Lehre and Xin Yao. Runtime analysis of search heuristics on software engineering problems. Frontiers of Computer Science in China, 3(1):64-72, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Pietro S. Oliveto, Per Kristian Lehre, and Frank Neumann. Theoretical analysis of rank-based mutation - combining exploration and exploitation. In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 1455-1462, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Tianshi Chen, Per Kristian Lehre, Ke Tang, and Xin Yao. When is an estimation of distribution algorithm better than an evolutionary algorithm? In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 1470-1477, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Jonathan Tate, Benjamin Woolford-Lim, Iain Bate, and Xin Yao. Comparing design of experiments and evolutionary approaches to multi-objective optimisation of sensornet protocols. In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 1137-1144, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Vivek Nallur, Rami Bahsoon, and Xin Yao. Self-optimizing architecture for ensuring quality attributes in the cloud. Accepted by the 7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2009), Cambridge, UK, September 14-17, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Andrea Arcuri. Theoretical analysis of local search in software testing. Accepted by the 5th Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications (SAGA 2009), Sapporo, Japan, October 26-28, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]