Search-Based Software Engineering
Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2026, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 2026.
The 5 full papers, with 10 short papers included, in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The symposium featured four tracks: the Research Track, the SBSE Challenge Track, the Hot-off-the-Press (HOP) Track, and the Replications, Negative Results, and New Ideas
& Emerging Results (RENE/NIER) Track.
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Content
.- Adaptive Software Energy Feedback for Long-Term User Engagement.
.- Genetic Programming for Self-Adaptive Auto-Scaling of Microservices.
.- Prompt Optimization for LLM Code Generation via Reinforcement Learning.
.- A Simulation-Based Genetic Algorithm to Find Configuration Anomalies in UAV Software.
.- Zoom, Don't Wander: Why Regional Search Outperforms Pareto Reasoning and Global Optimization in Budget-Constrained SBSE.
.- MLStractor: LLM-Powered Search-Based Monolith-To-Microservice Decomposition.
.- White-Box Execution Refactoring of Transformers for Lower Energy.
.- Reducing LLMs by Searching Heterogeneous Quantizations.
.- Fuzz3: Entropy as a Third Oracle.
.- VFL-Searcher: Optimizing Stealthy Adversarial Dominating Inputs.
.- SafeTune: Search-based Harmfulness Minimisation for Large Language Models.
.- What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests.
.- ApkFuzz: Search-Based Fuzzing for Android APK Vulnerability Discovery.
.- Survival of the Stealthiest: Evolving Low-Entropy Ransomware via Genetic Algorithms.
.- Search-Based Generation of Complex Inputs with FANDANGO.