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most citedThe Weights can be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-Objective Search-Based Software Engineering

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cs.SE2026

When to Use Which? Benchmarking Optimisers for Configurable Systems under Varying Budgets

Chao Jiang, Yulong Ye, Tao Chen +1

Software configuration tuning is crucial for optimising system performance, and various optimisers have emerged over the last decade. Yet, the time required during the tuning proce…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

Revealing Domain-Spatiality Patterns for Configuration Tuning: Domain Knowledge Meets Fitness Landscapes

Yulong Ye, Hongyuan Liang, Chao Jiang +2

Configuration tuning for better performance is crucial in quality assurance. Yet, there has long been a mystery on tuners' effectiveness, due to the black-box nature of configurabl…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Distilled Lifelong Self-Adaptation for Configurable Systems

Yulong Ye, Tao Chen, Miqing Li

Modern configurable systems provide tremendous opportunities for engineering future intelligent software systems. A key difficulty thereof is how to effectively self-adapt the conf…

cs.SE2024★ 14 cited

Adapting Multi-objectivized Software Configuration Tuning

Tao Chen, Miqing Li

When tuning software configuration for better performance (e.g., latency or throughput), an important issue that many optimizers face is the presence of local optimum traps, compou…

cs.SE2023★ 24 cited

Do Performance Aspirations Matter for Guiding Software Configuration Tuning?

Tao Chen, Miqing Li

Configurable software systems can be tuned for better performance. Leveraging on some Pareto optimizers, recent work has shifted from tuning for a single, time-related performance…

cs.SE2022★ 48 cited

The Weights can be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-Objective Search-Based Software Engineering

Tao Chen, Miqing Li

In presence of multiple objectives to be optimized in Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), Pareto search has been commonly adopted. It searches for a good approximation of the…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

MMO: Meta Multi-Objectivization for Software Configuration Tuning

Pengzhou Chen, Tao Chen, Miqing Li

Software configuration tuning is essential for optimizing a given performance objective (e.g., minimizing latency). Yet, due to the software's intrinsically complex configuration l…