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William B. Langdon

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

103

Venues

12

Active years

1998–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

103 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026SSBSEFuzz3 : Entropy as a Third Oracle.Karine Even-Mendoza, Janine Obiri, Aidan Dakhama, Phil McMinn, William B. Langdon
2025EUROGPPopulation Diversity, Information Theory and Genetic Improvement.William B. Langdon, David Clark
2025SSBSEHotCat: Green and Effective Feature Selection toward Hotfix Bug Taxonomy.Luis De La Cal, Yazhuo Cao, Ayse Irmak Ercevik, Giovanni Pinna, Lukas Twist, David Williams, Karine Even-Mendoza, William B. Langdon, Hctor D. Menndez, Federica Sarro
2025SSBSEGreenMalloc: Allocator Optimisation for Industrial Workloads.Aidan Dakhama, William B. Langdon, Hctor D. Menndez, Karine Even-Mendoza
2025SSBSEGA4GC: Greener Agent for Greener Code via Multi-objective Configuration Optimization.Jingzhi Gong, Yixin Bian, Luis De La Cal, Giovanni Pinna, Anisha Uteem, David Williams, Mar Zamorano, Karine Even-Mendoza, William B. Langdon, Hctor D. Menndez, Federica Sarro
2024EUROGPGenetic Improvement of Last Level Cache.William B. Langdon, David Clark
2024SSBSEGreenStableYolo: Optimizing Inference Time and Image Quality of Text-to-Image Generation.Jingzhi Gong, Sisi Li, Giordano d'Aloisio, Zishuo Ding, Yulong Ye, William B. Langdon, Federica Sarro
2023EUROGPGenetic Improvement of LLVM Intermediate Representation.William B. Langdon, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Aymeric Blot, David Clark
2023GECCOGenetically Improved Software with fewer Data Cache Misses.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, Aymeric Blot, David Clark
2023SSBSESearchGEM5: Towards Reliable Gem5 with Search Based Software Testing and Large Language Models.Aidan Dakhama, Karine Even-Mendoza, William B. Langdon, Hctor D. Menndez, Justyna Petke
2022GECCOGenetic programming convergence.William B. Langdon
2022GECCOFailed disruption propagation in integer genetic programming.William B. Langdon
2022GECCOMeasuring failed disruption propagation in genetic programming.William B. Langdon, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, David Clark
2022GECCOLong-term evolution experiment with genetic programming [hot of the press].William B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf
2021EUROGPIncremental Evaluation in Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2021GECCOFitness first and fatherless crossover.William B. Langdon
2021GECCOGenetic improvement of data for maths functions.William B. Langdon, Oliver Krauss
2021GECCODissipative polynomials.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, David Clark
2020CECGenetic Improvement of Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2020EUROGPAutomatically Evolving Lookup Tables for Function Approximation.Oliver Krauss, William B. Langdon
2020GECCOEvolving sqrt into 1/William B. Langdon, Oliver Krauss
2019EUROGPEvolving AVX512 Parallel C Code Using GP.William B. Langdon, Ronny Lorenz
2019GECCOParallel GPQUICK.William B. Langdon
2019GECCOGenetic improvement of data gives double precision invsqrt.William B. Langdon
2019GECCOGenetic improvement of data gives binary logarithm from sqrt.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke
2018EUROGPEvolving Better RNAfold Structure Prediction.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, Ronny Lorenz
2018SSBSEEvolving Better Software Parameters.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke
2017EUROGPVisualising the Search Landscape of the Triangle Program.William B. Langdon, Nadarajen Veerapen, Gabriela Ochoa
2017GECCOLong-term evolution of genetic programming populations.William B. Langdon
2017GECCOImproving SSE parallel code with grow and graft genetic programming.William B. Langdon, Ronny Lorenz
2017GECCOGenetic improvement of computational biology software.William B. Langdon, Karina Zile
2017ICSEInferring Automatic Test Oracles.William B. Langdon, Shin Yoo, Mark Harman
2016CECGenetic improvement: A key challenge for evolutionary computation.William B. Langdon, Gabriela Ochoa
2016GECCOBenchmarking Genetically Improved BarraCUDA on Epigenetic Methylation NGS datasets and nVidia GPUs.William B. Langdon, Albert Vilella, Brian Yee Hong Lam, Justyna Petke, Mark Harman
2016PPSNKin Selection with Twin Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2016PPSNOptimising Quantisation Noise in Energy Measurement.William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, Bobby R. Bruce
2016SSBSEAPI-Constrained Genetic Improvement.William B. Langdon, David Robert White, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Justyna Petke
2015GECCOGrow and Graft a Better CUDA pknotsRG for RNA Pseudoknot Free Energy Calculation.William B. Langdon, Mark Harman
2015GECCOImproving CUDA DNA Analysis Software with Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon, Brian Yee Hong Lam, Justyna Petke, Mark Harman
2015SSBSEGrow and Serve: Growing Django Citation Services Using SBSE.Yue Jia, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, Alexandru Marginean
2015SSBSEGenetic Improvement of Software for Multiple Objectives.William B. Langdon
2014EUROGPGenetically Improved CUDA C++ Software.William B. Langdon, Mark Harman
2014EUROGPUsing Genetic Improvement and Code Transplants to Specialise a C++ Program to a Problem Class.Justyna Petke, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, Westley Weimer
2014GECCOImproving 3D medical image registration CUDA software with genetic programming.William B. Langdon, Marc Modat, Justyna Petke, Mark Harman
2014ICSEGenetic improvement for adaptive software engineering (keynote).Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, Iman Hemati Moghadam, Shin Yoo, Fan Wu
2014SPLCSearch based software engineering for software product line engineering: a survey and directions for future work.Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Jens Krinke, William B. Langdon, Justyna Petke, Yuanyuan Zhang
2014SSBSEBabel Pidgin: SBSE Can Grow and Graft Entirely New Functionality into a Real World System.Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William B. Langdon
2014SYNASCGenetic Improvement of Programs.William B. Langdon
2013GECCOCorrelation of microarray probes give evidence for mycoplasma contamination in human studies.William B. Langdon
2013GECCOWhich is faster: bowtie2William B. Langdon
2013SSBSEApplying Genetic Improvement to MiniSAT.Justyna Petke, William B. Langdon, Mark Harman
2011FOGAElementary bit string mutation landscapes.William B. Langdon
2011GECCOGeneralisation in genetic programming.William B. Langdon
2011GECCODebugging CUDA.William B. Langdon
2011GECCOPerforming with CUDA.William B. Langdon
2010CECEvolving a CUDA kernel from an nVidia template.William B. Langdon, Mark Harman
2010EUROGPA Many Threaded CUDA Interpreter for Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2010ICSTA Manifesto for Higher Order Mutation Testing.Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William B. Langdon
2009GECCOEvo_indent interactive evolution of GNU indent options.William B. Langdon
2009GECCOA fast high quality pseudo random number generator for nVidia CUDA.William B. Langdon
2009GECCOMulti objective higher order mutation testing with GP.William B. Langdon, Mark Harman, Yue Jia
2009GECCOCreating regular expressions as mRNA motifs with GP to predict human exon splitting.William B. Langdon, Joanna Rowsell, Andrew P. Harrison
2009GECCOGenetic programming theory I & II.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
2008CECA fast high quality pseudo random number generator for graphics processing units.William B. Langdon
2008CECEvolving GeneChip correlation predictors on parallel graphics hardware.William B. Langdon
2008EUROGPA SIMD Interpreter for Genetic Programming on GPU Graphics Cards.William B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf
2008PPSNEvolving Regular Expressions for GeneChip Probe Performance Prediction.William B. Langdon, Andrew P. Harrison
2007EUROGPOn the Limiting Distribution of Program Sizes in Tree-Based Genetic Programming.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Stephen Dignum
2007FOGAContinuous Optimisation Theory Made Easy? Finite-Element Models of Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimizers.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Maurice Clerc, Christopher R. Stephens
2007GECCOThe genetic programming collaboration network and its communities.Leslie Luthi, Marco Tomassini, Mario Giacobini, William B. Langdon
2007GECCOMarkov chain models of bare-bones particle swarm optimizers.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
2007GECCOGenetic programming theory.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
2006CECFinding Social Landscapes for PSOs via Kernels.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
2006CECEmergent Behaviour, Population-based Search and Low-pass Filtering.Riccardo Poli, Alden H. Wright, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, William B. Langdon
2006EUROGPThe Halting Probability in Von Neumann Architectures.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
2006UCMapping Non-conventional Extensions of Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2005CECEvolving problems to learn about particle swarm and other optimisers.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
2005CECEvolutionary Solo Pong players.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
2005EUROGPRepeated Patterns in Tree Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf
2005EUROGPExtending Particle Swarm Optimisation via Genetic Programming.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Owen Holland
2005GECCOExploring extended particle swarms: a genetic programming approach.Riccardo Poli, Cecilia Di Chio, William B. Langdon
2005GECCOBackward-chaining genetic programming.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
2004EUROGPGlobal Distributed Evolution of L-Systems Fractals.William B. Langdon
2004GECCOAn Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Based on Maximum Entropy.Alden H. Wright, Riccardo Poli, Christopher R. Stephens, William B. Langdon, Sandeep Pulavarty
2003CECPredicting biochemical interactions - human P450 2D6 enzyme inhibition.William B. Langdon, S. J. Barrett, Bernard F. Buxton
2003GECCOConvergence of Program Fitness Landscapes.William B. Langdon
2002EUROGPCombining Decision Trees and Neural Networks for Drug Discovery.William B. Langdon, S. J. Barrett, Bernard F. Buxton
2002FOGAHow Many Good Programs are There? How Long are They?William B. Langdon
2002GECCOConvergence Rates For The Distribution Of Program Outputs.William B. Langdon
2002GECCORandom Search is Parsimonious.William B. Langdon
2002HISA Hybrid Genetic Programming Neural Network Classifier for Use in Drug Discovery.William B. Langdon
2001EUROGPEvolving Receiver Operating Characteristics for Data Fusion.William B. Langdon, Bernard F. Buxton
2001EUROGPEvolving Hand-Eye Coordination for a Humanoid Robot with Machine Code Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon, Peter Nordin
2000EUROGPApplication of Genetic Programming to Induction of Linear Classification Trees.Martijn C. J. Bot, William B. Langdon
2000EUROGPSeeding Genetic Programming Populations.William B. Langdon, Peter Nordin
2000GECCOQuadratic Bloat in Genetic Programming.William B. Langdon
2000PPSNGenetic Programming Bloat without Semantics.William B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf
1999EUROGPBoolean Functions Fitness Spaces.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
1999EUROGPSmooth Uniform Crossover with Smooth Point Mutation in Genetic Programming: A Preliminary Study.Jonathan Page, Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
1999GECCOJava based Distributed Genetic Programming on the Internet.Fuey Sian Chong, William B. Langdon
1998EUROGPFitness Causes Bloat: Mutation.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
1998EUROGPGenetic Programming Bloat with Dynamic Fitness.William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
1998EUROGPA Review of Theoretical and Experimental Results on Schemata in Genetic Programming.Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon