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most citedHow to Evaluate Solutions in Pareto-based Search-Based Software Engineering? A Critical Review and Methodological Guidance

102 citations · 373 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2022★ 35 cited

Mitigating Unfairness via Evolutionary Multi-objective Ensemble Learning

Qingquan Zhang, Jialin Liu, Zeqi Zhang +3

In the literature of mitigating unfairness in machine learning, many fairness measures are designed to evaluate predictions of learning models and also utilised to guide the traini…

cs.AI2020★ 3 cited

A Novel CNet-assisted Evolutionary Level Repairer and Its Applications to Super Mario Bros

Tianye Shu, Ziqi Wang, Jialin Liu +1

Applying latent variable evolution to game level design has become more and more popular as little human expert knowledge is required. However, defective levels with illegal patter…

cs.SE2020★ 102 cited

How to Evaluate Solutions in Pareto-based Search-Based Software Engineering? A Critical Review and Methodological Guidance

Miqing Li, Tao Chen, Xin Yao

With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a multi-objec…

cs.SE2020★ 15 cited

Synergizing Domain Expertise with Self-Awareness in Software Systems: A Patternized Architecture Guideline

Tao Chen, Rami Bahsoon, Xin Yao

To promote engineering self-aware and self-adaptive software systems in a reusable manner, architectural patterns and the related methodology provide an unified solution to handle…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Adaptive Initialization Method for K-means Algorithm

Jie Yang, Yu-Kai Wang, Xin Yao +1

The K-means algorithm is a widely used clustering algorithm that offers simplicity and efficiency. However, the traditional K-means algorithm uses the random method to determine th…

cs.NE2019

A Simple Yet Effective Approach to Robust Optimization Over Time

Lukáš Adam, Xin Yao

Robust optimization over time (ROOT) refers to an optimization problem where its performance is evaluated over a period of future time. Most of the existing algorithms use particle…

cs.SI2019★ 8 cited

Learning Topological Representation for Networks via Hierarchical Sampling

Guoji Fu, Chengbin Hou, Xin Yao

The topological information is essential for studying the relationship between nodes in a network. Recently, Network Representation Learning (NRL), which projects a network into a…

cs.LG2019★ 4 cited

Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks via Embedding Events

Guoji Fu, Bo Yuan, Qiqi Duan +1

Network representation learning (NRL) has been widely used to help analyze large-scale networks through mapping original networks into a low-dimensional vector space. However, exis…

cs.LG2018★ 19 cited

Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Networks

Chaoyue Wang, Chang Xu, Xin Yao +1

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from trai…

cs.SE2016★ 99 cited

A Survey and Taxonomy of Self-Aware and Self-Adaptive Cloud Autoscaling Systems

Tao Chen, Rami Bahsoon, Xin Yao

Autoscaling system can reconfigure cloud-based services and applications, through various configurations of cloud software and provisions of hardware resources, to adapt to the cha…

cs.SE2016★ 85 cited

FEMOSAA: Feature Guided and Knee Driven Multi-Objective Optimization for Self-Adaptive Software

Tao Chen, Ke Li, Rami Bahsoon +1

Self-adaptive software (SAS) can reconfigure itself to adapt to the changing environment at runtime, aiming for continually optimizing conflicted non-functional objectives, e.g., r…