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The two most important criteria for vectorial Boolean functions used as S-boxes in block ciphers are differential uniformity and nonlinearity. Previous work in this field has focused only on nonlinearity and a different criterion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-30 James McLaughlin , John A. Clark

Software vulnerabilities continue to undermine the reliability and security of modern systems, particularly as software complexity outpaces the capabilities of traditional detection methods. This study introduces a genetic algorithm-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanusha Mehendran , Maolin Tang , Yi Lu

Unit testing is a stage of testing where the smallest segment of code that can be tested in isolation from the rest of the system - often a class - is tested. Unit tests are typically written as executable code, often in a format provided…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Afonso Fontes , Gregory Gay , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Robert Feldt

Warehouse is one of the important aspects of a company. Therefore, it is necessary to improve Warehouse Management System (WMS) to have a simple function that can determine the layout of the storage goods. In this paper we propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Ardy Wibowo Haryanto , Adhi Kusnadi , Yustinus Eko Soelistio

The paper presents a Stateflow based network test-bed to validate real-time optimal control algorithms. Genetic Algorithm (GA) based time domain performance index minimization is attempted for tuning of PI controller to handle a balanced…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ayan Mukherjee , Anindya Pakhira , Saptarshi Das , Indranil Pan , Amitava Gupta

Automated graphical user interface (GUI) tests can reduce manual testing activities and increase test frequency. This motivates the conversion of manual test cases into automated GUI tests. However, it is not clear whether such automation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Felix Dobslaw , Robert Feldt , David Michaelsson , Patrick Haar , Francisco G. de Oliveira Neto , Richard Torkar

Software testing is essential to ensure system quality, but it remains time-consuming and error-prone when performed manually. Although recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled automated test generation, most existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Elvis Júnior , Alan Valejo , Jorge Valverde-Rebaza , Vânia de Oliveira Neves

Gradual pattern extraction is a field in (KDD) Knowledge Discovery in Databases that maps correlations between attributes of a data set as gradual dependencies. A gradual dependency may take a form of "the more Attribute K , the less…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Dickson Odhiambo Owuor , Thomas Runkler , Anne Laurent , Joseph Orero , Edmond Menya

Optimization plays an important role in tackling public health problems. Animal instincts can be used effectively to solve complex public health management issues by providing optimal or approximately optimal solutions to complicated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Eliuvish Cuicizion , Haowen Xu , Weng Kee Wong

Software Testing is a well-established area in software engineering, encompassing various techniques and methodologies to ensure the quality and reliability of software systems. However, with the advent of generative artificial intelligence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Aldeida Aleti

The current work describes an empirical study conducted in order to investigate the behavior of an optimization method in a fuzzy environment. MAX-MIN Ant System, an efficient implementation of a heuristic method is used for solving an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Gloria Cerasela Crisan , Camelia-M. Pintea , Petrica C. Pop

Model-based testing (MBT) provides an automated approach for finding discrepancies between software models and their implementation. If we want to incorporate MBT into the fast and iterative software development process that is Continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 P. H. M. van Spaendonck

Ant colony optimization (ACO) has been applied to the field of combinatorial optimization widely. But the study of convergence theory of ACO is rare under general condition. In this paper, the authors try to find the evidence to prove that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-25 Chao-Yang Pang , Chong-Bao Wang , Ben-Qiong Hu

Determining possible failure scenarios is a critical step in the evaluation of autonomous vehicle systems. Real-world vehicle testing is commonly employed for autonomous vehicle validation, but the costs and time requirements are high.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Anthony Corso , Peter Du , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Siby Abraham , Sugata Sanyal , Mukund Sanglikar

In this paper, a novel multiagent based state transition optimization algorithm with linear convergence rate named MASTA is constructed. It first generates an initial population randomly and uniformly. Then, it applies the basic state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Xiaojun Zhou

Test automation involves the automatic execution of test scripts instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing industry. There are two key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Anurag Dwarakanath , Dipin Era , Aditya Priyadarshi , Neville Dubash , Sanjay Podder

Software testing is the process of determining the precision, quality, completeness and security of the software systems. An important step in testing software is the generation of test cases, whose quality plays a vital role in determining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Jai Manral

Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique which is too computationally expensive for industrial use. Cloud-based distributed computing clusters, taking advantage of the MapReduce programming paradigm, represent a method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Robert Merkel , James Georgeson

Nowadays, we are immersed in tens of newly-proposed evolutionary and swam-intelligence metaheuristics, which makes it very difficult to choose a proper one to be applied on a specific optimization problem at hand. On the other hand, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Hamid Reza Boveiri , Raouf Khayami