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To improve the global optimization ability of traditional GEP algorithm, a Multicellular gene expression programming algorithm based on fuzzy control (Multicellular GEP Algorithm Based On Fuzzy Control, MGEP-FC) is proposed. The MGEP-FC…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Chuyan Deng , Yuzhong Peng , Hongya Li , Daoqing Gong , Hao Zhang , Zhiping Liu

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

A multiple objective simulation optimization algorithm named Multiple Objective Probabilistic Branch and Bound with Single Observation (MOPBnB(so)) is presented for approximating the Pareto optimal set and the associated efficient frontier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Hao Huang , Zelda B. Zabinsky

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for addressing the multi-objective optimization problem in large language model merging via black-box multi-objective optimization algorithms. The goal of model merging is to combine multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Bingdong Li , Zixiang Di , Yanting Yang , Hong Qian , Peng Yang , Hao Hao , Ke Tang , Aimin Zhou

Fuzzing and symbolic execution are popular techniques for finding vulnerabilities and generating test-cases for programs. Fuzzing, a blackbox method that mutates seed input values, is generally incapable of generating diverse inputs that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Saahil Ognawala , Thomas Hutzelmann , Eirini Psallida , Alexander Pretschner

The aim of this literature is to illustrate the application of multi-objective optimization routines through a case study of face milling operation. For this purpose, the face milling operation is designed as a multi-objective optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Nazmul Hasan

In recent years, following tremendous achievements in Reinforcement Learning, a great deal of interest has been devoted to ML models for sequential decision-making. Together with these scientific breakthroughs/advances, research has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Quentin Mazouni , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb , Mathieu Acher

Hardware security vulnerabilities in computing systems compromise the security defenses of not only the hardware but also the software running on it. Recent research has shown that hardware fuzzing is a promising technique to efficiently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Chen , Vasudev Gohil , Rahul Kande , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Fog computing is a promising paradigm for real-time and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Regarding the high distribution, heterogeneity, and limitation of fog resources, applications should be placed in a distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Maryam Eslami , Mehdi Sakhaei

Decades of research on Internet congestion control (CC) has produced a plethora of algorithms that optimize for different performance objectives. Applications face the challenge of choosing the most suitable algorithm based on their needs,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yiqing Ma , Han Tian , Xudong Liao , Junxue Zhang , Weiyan Wang , Kai Chen , Xin Jin

In real-world recommendation scenarios, users engage with items through various types of behaviors. Leveraging diversified user behavior information for learning can enhance the recommendation of target behaviors (e.g., buy), as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chenhao Zhai , Chang Meng , Yu Yang , Kexin Zhang , Xuhao Zhao , Xiu Li

Fuzzing is one of the prevailing methods for vulnerability detection. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzing methods become ineffective after some period of time, i.e., the coverage hardly improves as existing methods are ineffective to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shunkai Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Jie Yang , Xingwei Lin , Liyi Zhang , Peng Cheng

Recently, to deliver services directly to the network edge, fog computing, an emerging and developing technology, acts as a layer between the cloud and the IoT worlds. The cloud or fog computing nodes could be selected by IoTs applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Ahmed A. A. Gad-Elrab , Almohammady S. Alsharkawy , Mahmoud E. Embabi , Ahmed Sobhi , Farouk A. Emara

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Current embedded systems are specifically designed to run multimedia applications. These applications have a big impact on both performance and energy consumption. Both metrics can be optimized selecting the best cache configuration for a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Josefa Díaz Álvarez , José L. Risco-Martín , J. Manuel Colmenar

Greybox fuzzing is a scalable and practical approach for software testing. Most greybox fuzzing tools are coverage-guided as reaching high code coverage is more likely to find bugs. However, since most covered codes may not contain bugs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Pengfei Wang , Xu Zhou , Tai Yue , Peihong Lin , Yingying Liu , Kai Lu

In multi-objective black-box optimization, the goal is typically to find solutions that optimize a set of $T$ black-box objective functions, $f_1, \ldots f_T$, simultaneously. Traditional approaches often seek a single Pareto-optimal set…

Extending a recent suggestion to generate new instances for numerical black-box optimization benchmarking by interpolating pairs of the well-established BBOB functions from the COmparing COntinuous Optimizers (COCO) platform, we propose in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Diederick Vermetten , Furong Ye , Thomas Bäck , Carola Doerr

Fuzzy systems show strong potential in explainable AI due to their rule-based architecture and linguistic variables. Existing approaches navigate the accuracy-explainability trade-off either through evolutionary multi-objective optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qusai Khaled , Uzay Kaymak , Laura Genga