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A selection hyper-heuristic approach to the single airport slot allocation problem Open

Sha Wang, John H. Drake, David Melder, John R. Woodward, Edmund Burke · 2025

Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods Open

Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Sæmundur Ó. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Markus Wagner · 2024

Effectiveness of educational video games in English vocabulary acquisition: One case in China classroom context Open

Jianshu Qiao, John R. Woodward, Atm S. Alam · 2024

Rote memory (RM) has become the primary method of learning vocabulary for decades in China. However, RM is tedious, leading to reduced motivation and concentration. In contrast, Educational Video Games (EVGs) are attractive and fun, which …

Ensemble strategy using particle swarm optimisation variant and enhanced local search capability Open

Libin Hong, G. Gary Wang, Ender Özcan, John R. Woodward · 2023

A sequential quadratic programming based strategy for particle swarm optimization on single-objective numerical optimization Open

Libin Hong, Xinmeng Yu, Guofang Tao, Ender Özcan, John R. Woodward · 2023

Over the last decade, particle swarm optimization has become increasingly sophisticated because well-balanced exploration and exploitation mechanisms have been proposed. The sequential quadratic programming method, which is widely used for…

Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods Open

Alexander E. I. Browniee, Sæmundur Ó. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward · 2023

tutorial Open Access Share on Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods Authors: Alexander E. I. Browniee Computing and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland Co…

An improved ensemble particle swarm optimizer using niching behavior and covariance matrix adapted retreat phase Open

Libin Hong, Xinmeng Yu, Ben Wang, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan · 2023

Fairer Comparisons for Travelling Salesman Problem Solutions Using Hash Functions Open

Mehdi El Krari, Rym Nesrine Guibadj, John R. Woodward, Denis Robilliard · 2023

An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic-Based Map Matching Algorithm for Airport Ground Movements Open

Xinwei Wang, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Michal Weiszer, John R. Woodward, Mahdi Mahfouf , et al. · 2022

Airports and their related operations have become the major bottlenecks to the entire air traffic management system, raising predictability, safety and environmental concerns. One of the underpinning techniques for digital and sustainable …

Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg Open

Emily Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall , et al. · 2022

Acknowledgements: We are very grateful to the Bloomberg developers who participated in our focus groups and \ngave of their time and expertise.

How do Developers Really Feel About Bug Fixing? Directions for Automatic Program Repair Open

Emily Winter, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Sæmundur Ó. Haraldsson , et al. · 2022

Automatic program repair (APR) is a rapidly advancing field of software engineering that aims to supplement or replace manual bug fixing with an automated tool. For APR to be successfully adopted in industry, it is vital that APR tools res…

Let’s Talk With Developers, Not About Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research Open

Emily Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall , et al. · 2022

Supplemental Items: The appendix includes tables related to the main paper. \nDOI URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3152089/mm1

Evolution of group-theoretic cryptology attacks using hyper-heuristics Open

Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward · 2021

In previous work, we developed a single evolutionary algorithm (EA) to solve random instances of the Anshel–Anshel–Goldfeld (AAG) key exchange protocol over polycyclic groups. The EA consisted of six simple heuristics which manipulated str…

A chance-constrained programming model for airport ground movement optimisation with taxi time uncertainties Open

Xinwei Wang, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Michal Weiszer, John R. Woodward, Mahdi Mahfouf , et al. · 2021

Airport ground movement remains a major bottleneck for air traffic management. Existing approaches have developed several routing allocation methods to address this problem, in which the taxi time traversing each segment of the taxiways is…

Evolution of group-theoretic cryptology attacks using hyper-heuristics Open

Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward · 2021

In previous work, we developed a single evolutionary algorithm (EA) to solve random instances of the Anshel–Anshel–Goldfeld (AAG) key exchange protocol over polycyclic groups. The EA consisted of six simple heuristics which manipulated str…

Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications Open

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward , et al. · 2021

Addressing the mismatch between natural language descriptions and the corresponding SQL queries is a key challenge for text-to-SQL translation. To bridge this gap, we propose an SQL intermediate representation (IR) called Natural SQL (NatS…

Hyper-heuristic approach: automatically designing adaptive mutation operators for evolutionary programming Open

Libin Hong, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan, Fuchang Liu · 2021

Table of Contents Open

Claire Le Goues, Michael Pradel, Abhik Roychoudhury, Satish Chandra, Benoît Baudry , et al. · 2021

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution Open

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward , et al. · 2021

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks to translate text descriptions into SQL queries. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchmarks, existing text-to-SQL models typically rely on the lexi…

A Novel Two-Stage Heart Arrhythmia Ensemble Classifier Open

Mercedeh J. Rezaei, John R. Woodward, Julia Ramírez, Patricia B. Munroe · 2021

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular arrhythmia (Arr) are among the most common and fatal cardiac arrhythmias in the world. Electrocardiogram (ECG) data, collected as part of the UK Biobank, represents an opportunity for analysis and c…

A Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models Open

Yujian Gan, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward · 2021

WikiSQL and Spider, the large-scale crossdomain text-to-SQL datasets, have attracted much attention from the research community. The leaderboards of WikiSQL and Spider show that many researchers propose their models trying to solve the tex…

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution Open

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward , et al. · 2021

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, Jinxia Xie, Pengsheng Huang. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on N…

Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications Open

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward , et al. · 2021

Addressing the mismatch between natural language descriptions and the corresponding SQL queries is a key challenge for text-to-SQL translation. To bridge this gap, we propose an SQL intermediate representation (IR) called Natural SQL (NatS…

Aircraft taxi time prediction: Feature importance and their implications Open

Xinwei Wang, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Michal Weiszer, Mahdi Mahfouf , et al. · 2020

Instances for Group-Theoretic Cryptology Open

Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward · 2020

The dataset consists of one zip file. The file consists of three folders, with folder name indicating the instance parameters. Inside each folder are multiple subfolders, each containing the instances given by the degree of the polynomial …

Methods And Sources For Underpinning Airport Ground Movement Decision Support Systems Open

Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Jason Atkin, John R. Woodward, Edmund Burke · 2020

The airport Ground Movement problem is concerned with the allo- cation of routes to aircraft for their travel along taxiways between the runway and the stands. It is important to find high quality solutions to this problem because it has a…

Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games Open

Vivek R. Warriar, John R. Woodward, Laurissa Tokarchuk · 2019

© 2019 IEEE. In this paper, we use preference learning techniques to model players' emotional preferences in an AR mobile game. This exploratory study uses player behaviour to make these preference predictions. The described techniques suc…

PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games Open

Vivek R. Warriar, Carmen M. Ugarte, John R. Woodward, Laurissa Tokarchuk · 2019

© 2019 IEEE. In this paper, we present PlayMapper, a novel variant of the MAP-Elites algorithm that has been adapted to map the level design space of the Super Mario Bros game. Our approach uses player and level based features to create a …

Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games Open

Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas · 2019

There are few digital tools to help designers create game mechanics. A general language to express game mechanics is necessary for rapid game design iteration. The first iteration of a mechanics-focused language, together with its interfac…

GI 2019 Program Committee Open

Brad Alexander, Nadia Facebook, Anikó Ekárt, Saemundur Haraldson, Ciera Jaspan , et al. · 2019

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