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EPSRC Reference:	EP/G060525/2
Title:	CREST: Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing, Platform Grant.
Principal Investigator:	Harman, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Clark, Dr DJ Gold, Dr N Krinke, Dr J
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Department:	Computer Science
Organisation:	UCL
Scheme:	Platform Grants
Starts:	01 August 2010	Ends:	31 August 2014	Value (£):	925,401
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Software Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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CREST's approach to Software Engineering places search--based optimisation at its heart. The CREST philosophy is that software engineering can be thought of as a search for good quality solutions within a potentially enormous search space, while balancing many different competing, sometimes conflicting, objectives. We believe that this philosophy is important in all engineering disciplines, but it is in Software Engineering where it finds its greatest potential. The materials and artifacts used in software engineering are very different; they are pure processes and information, essentially without physical manifestation. This makes the search--based optimisation agenda particularly apposite and offers the significant advantage of automation. The work supported by this platform proposal will develop, extend and disseminate this agenda of Automated Optimisation in Software Engineering.
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