The 66th CREST Open Workshop - SSBSE Challenge Track: Collaborative Jam Session

The 16th Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering is hosting a Challenge Track:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/ssbse-2024/ssbse-2024-challenge

The SSBSE Challenge track is a good opportunity for new researchers to join the SBSE community and develop a taste and gain practical expertise in the field. It also allows researchers to apply techniques and tools to real-world software and to discover novel practical (or even theoretical) challenges for future work.

The CREST centre at UCL is a long-standing contributor of accepted papers to the Challenge Track. Their sustained success can be attributed in part to the organisation of a Jam Session in preparation for the Challenge Track submission deadline, as part of the CREST Open Workshops (COW). This Jam Session runs over two consecutive days.

The purpose of this CREST open workshop is to draw together those in the community interested in collaborating on submissions for this challenge. The workshop will act, in part, as a collaboration brokerage, helping to facilitate and foster collaborations between different subgroups attending the workshop. The emphasis of the workshop will be on collaboration with a view to producing high quality submissions to the challenge track.

Policy on Student Registrations

We welcome registrations from PhD students, where the student is pursuing a programme of research for which the COW will provide intellectual benefit and/or from whom the workshop and its other attendees will gain benefit. We do not normally expect to register students other than those on PhD level programmes of study. For example, those students taking a course at the equivalent of UK masters or bachelors level would not, ordinarily, be considered eligible to register for COW. However, we are willing to consider exceptional cases, where a masters or bachelors student has a clear contribution to make to the topic of the COW. In all cases, students must have the approval of their supervisor/advisor for their attendance at the COW and their consent to the terms of registration. This is why we ask that students seeking to register for a COW also supply the contact details of their supervisor.

Cancellation Fee

Please appreciate that numbers are limited and catering needs to be booked in advance, so registration followed by non-attendance will cause difficulties. For this reason, though the workshop is entirely free of charge, there will be a cancellation fee of £100 for those who register but subsequently fail to attend.

Getting There

The COW wil be held in the Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room FWB 2.48. From the main entrance, go straight upstairs, pass the library on the right, climb up stairs on the left, to the second floor. On the second floor turn left, and walk down the corridor till you get to blue lockers on the left, in between which you will find room FWB 2.48.

Schedule

Day 1

10:00 -10:30  Welcome + Introductions

10:30 -11:00  Introduction to the Challenge Track

11:00 -12:00  Tutorial on Quantum Computing and Generative AI

12:00 -12:30  Divide into groups

12:30 -13:30  Lunch

13:30 -14:00  Further Discussion and Slide Preparation

14:00 -15:00  Presentations

15:00 -15:30  Tea/Coffee

15:30 -17:00  Divide into Groups, Start Detailed Planning, Work in Groups

Day 2

10:00 -10:30  Recap of Proposals

10:30 -12:30  Working in Groups

12:30 -13:30  Lunch

13:30 -15:00  Presentation of Initial Results

15:00 -15:30  Tea/Coffee

15:30 -17:00  Working in Groups Towards Paper Submission

Attendees