John R. Woodward

93 papers A 4B 11C 6Journal 27Unranked 45
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
A dynamic routing algorithm of CapsNet for drift prognosis.
Expert Syst. Appl.
Borong Lin, Nanlin Jin, John R. Woodward
2025 J jnl
A selection hyper-heuristic approach to the single airport slot allocation problem.
Comput. Oper. Res.
Sha Wang, John H. Drake, David Melder, John R. Woodward, Edmund K. Burke
2025 J jnl
An effective combination of mechanisms for particle swarm optimization-based ensemble strategy.
Swarm Evol. Comput.
Libin Hong, Zhantao Gu, Ruibin Bai, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan
2025 — conf
Multimodal Transport Path Optimisation with Fixed Timetable Constraints.
ITSC
Yueru Shang, John R. Woodward, Xinwei Wang
2024 J jnl
A sequential quadratic programming based strategy for particle swarm optimization on single-objective numerical optimization.
Complex Intell. Syst.
Libin Hong, Xinmeng Yu, Guofang Tao, Ender Özcan, John R. Woodward
2024 — conf
Beyond Iterative Tuning: Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Optimisation for Decision Trees.
LOD (1)
Tarek Salhi, John R. Woodward
2024 J jnl
Ensemble strategy using particle swarm optimisation variant and enhanced local search capability.
Swarm Evol. Comput.
Libin Hong, Guodong Wang, Ender Özcan, John R. Woodward
2024 — conf
Generative Hyper-heuristics.
GECCO Companion
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2023 J jnl
An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic-Based Map Matching Algorithm for Airport Ground Movements.
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
Xinwei Wang, Alexander Edward Ian Brownlee, Michal Weiszer, John R. Woodward, Mahdi Mahfouf, Jun Chen
2023 J jnl
An improved ensemble particle swarm optimizer using niching behavior and covariance matrix adapted retreat phase.
Swarm Evol. Comput.
Libin Hong, Xinmeng Yu, Ben Wang, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan
2023 B conf
Fairer Comparisons for Travelling Salesman Problem Solutions Using Hash Functions.
EvoCOP
Mehdi El Krari, Rym Nesrine Guibadj, John R. Woodward, Denis Robilliard
2023 — conf
Generative Hyper-heuristics.
GECCO Companion
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2023 — conf
Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods.
GECCO Companion
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2023 J jnl
How do Developers Really Feel About Bug Fixing? Directions for Automatic Program Repair.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Emily Winter, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Vesna Nowack, John R. Woodward
2023 J jnl
Let's Talk With Developers, Not About Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Emily Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2023 — conf
SMBOX: A Scalable and Efficient Method for Sequential Model-Based Parameter Optimization.
LOD (2)
Tarek Salhi, John R. Woodward
2022 B conf
An 80-20 Analysis of Buggy and Non-buggy Refactorings in Open-Source Commits.
SEAA
Steve Counsell, Vesna Nowack, Tracy Hall, David Bowes, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2022 J jnl
Evolution of group-theoretic cryptology attacks using hyper-heuristics.
J. Math. Cryptol.
Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward
2022 — conf
Generative hyper-heuristics.
GECCO Companion
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2022 — conf
Genetic improvement: taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods.
GECCO Companion
Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Bradley Alexander, Emily Winter
2022 J jnl
Noise tolerant drift detection method for data stream mining.
Inf. Sci.
Pingfan Wang, Nanlin Jin, Wai Lok Woo, John R. Woodward, Duncan Davies
2022 — conf
Selecting the Parameters of an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Generation of Phenotypically Accurate Fractal Patterns.
MIC
Habiba Akter, Rupert C. D. Young, Phil Birch, Chris R. Chatwin, John R. Woodward
2022 — conf
Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Emily Rowan Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Serkan Kirbas, Etienne Windels, Olayori McBello, Abdurahman Atakishiyev, Kevin Kells, Matthew W. Pagano
2021 J jnl
A Novel Two-Stage Heart Arrhythmia Ensemble Classifier.
Comput.
Mercedeh J. Rezaei, John R. Woodward, Julia Ramírez, Patricia B. Munroe
2021 A conf
Expanding Fix Patterns to Enable Automatic Program Repair.
ISSRE
Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2021 — conf
Genetic improvement: taking real-world source code and improving it using genetic programming.
GECCO Companion
Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Markus Wagner, Bradley Alexander
2021 — conf
Hyper-heuristics tutorial.
GECCO Companion
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2021 — conf
Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications.
EMNLP (Findings)
Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, John H. Drake, Qiaofu Zhang
2021 J jnl
Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications.
CoRR
Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, John H. Drake, Qiaofu Zhang
2021 J jnl
On The Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg.
IEEE Softw.
Serkan Kirbas, Etienne Windels, Olayori McBello, Kevin Kells, Matthew W. Pagano, Rafal Szalanski, Vesna Nowack, Emily Rowan Winter, Steve Counsell, David Bowes, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2021 J jnl
Robust scheduling for multiple agile Earth observation satellites under cloud coverage uncertainty.
Comput. Ind. Eng.
Xinwei Wang, Yi Gu, Guohua Wu, John R. Woodward
2021 — conf
Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, Jinxia Xie, Pengsheng Huang
2021 J jnl
Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution.
CoRR
Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, Jinxia Xie, Pengsheng Huang
2020 — conf
A Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models.
AACL/IJCNLP (Student Research Workshop)
Yujian Gan, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward
2020 C conf
A Structured Approach to Modifying Successful Heuristics.
IJCCI
Simon P. Martin, Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward
2020 B conf
Data Augmentation for Heart Arrhythmia Classification.
ICTAI
Mercedeh J. Rezaei, John R. Woodward, Julia Ramírez, Patricia B. Munroe
2020 J jnl
Evolution of Group-Theoretic Cryptology Attacks using Hyper-heuristics.
CoRR
Matthew J. Craven, John R. Woodward
2020 — conf
Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair.
GECCO Companion
Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2020 — conf
Genetic improvement: taking real-world source code and improving it using genetic programming.
GECCO Companion
Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Markus Wagner
2020 — conf
Human Factors in the Study of Automatic Software Repair: Future Directions for Research with Industry.
ICSE (Workshops)
Emily Winter, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Vesna Nowack, John R. Woodward
2020 — conf
Hyper-heuristics tutorial.
GECCO Companion
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2020 C conf
Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer.
CoG
Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon Lucas
2019 — conf
A Constructive Heuristic Approach for Single Airport Slot Allocation Problems.
SSCI
Sha Wang, John H. Drake, Jamie Fairbrother, John R. Woodward
2019 J jnl
Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best.
CoRR
Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, John R. Woodward, Vanessa Volz, Diego Perez Liebana
2019 — conf
Extracting Learning Curves From Puzzle Games.
CEEC
Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019 — conf
Hyper-heuristics tutorial.
GECCO (Companion)
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2019 C conf
Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games.
CoG
Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019 J jnl
Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games.
CoRR
Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019 C conf
Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games.
CoG
Vivek R. Warriar, John R. Woodward, Laurissa N. Tokarchuk
2019 C conf
PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games.
CoG
Vivek R. Warriar, Carmen Ugarte, John R. Woodward, Laurissa Tokarchuk
2018 J jnl
A hyper-heuristic approach to automated generation of mutation operators for evolutionary programming.
Appl. Soft Comput.
Libin Hong, John H. Drake, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan
2018 A conf
A rolling window with genetic algorithm approach to sorting aircraft for automated taxi routing.
GECCO
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen
2018 J jnl
Genetic Improvement of Software: A Comprehensive Survey.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput.
Justyna Petke, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, David Robert White, John R. Woodward
2018 — conf
Hyper-heuristics tutorial.
GECCO (Companion)
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2018 — conf
Investigating benchmark correlations when comparing algorithms with parameter tuning.
GECCO (Companion)
Lee A. Christie, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward
2018 J jnl
Optimisation of transportation service network using κ-node large neighbourhood search.
Comput. Oper. Res.
Ruibin Bai, John R. Woodward, Nachiappan Subramanian, John Cartlidge
2018 — conf
Relating training instances to automatic design of algorithms for bin packing via features.
GECCO (Companion)
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Nadarajen Veerapen
2018 — conf
Tutorials at PPSN 2018.
PPSN (2)
Gisele Lobo Pappa, Michael T. M. Emmerich, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Will N. Browne, Kalyanmoy Deb, Carola Doerr, Marko Durasevic, Michael G. Epitropakis, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Domagoj Jakobovic, Pascal Kerschke, Krzysztof Krawiec, Per Kristian Lehre, Xiaodong Li, Andrei Lissovoi, Pekka Malo, Luis Martí, Yi Mei, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Julian F. Miller, Alberto Moraglio, Antonio J. Nebro, Su Nguyen, Gabriela Ochoa, Pietro S. Oliveto, Stjepan Picek, Nelishia Pillay, Mike Preuss, Marc Schoenauer, Roman Senkerik, Ankur Sinha, Ofer M. Shir, Dirk Sudholt, L. Darrell Whitley, Mark Wineberg, John R. Woodward, Mengjie Zhang
2017 J jnl
Breakout local search for the multi-objective gate allocation problem.
Comput. Oper. Res.
Una Benlic, Edmund K. Burke, John R. Woodward
2017 B conf
Exploring Fitness and Edit Distance of Mutated Python Programs.
EuroGP
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns
2017 — conf
Fixing bugs in your sleep: how genetic improvement became an overnight success.
GECCO (Companion)
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Kristin Siggeirsdottir
2017 — conf
Genetic improvement of runtime and its fitness landscape in a bioinformatics application.
GECCO (Companion)
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Albert V. Smith, Vilmundur Gudnason
2017 — conf
Hyper-heuristics tutorial.
GECCO (Companion)
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2017 — conf
The Use of Automatic Test Data Generation for Genetic Improvement in a Live System.
SBST@ICSE
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2017 C conf
The use of predictive models in dynamic treatment planning.
ISCC
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Ragnheidur D. Brynjolfsdottir, John R. Woodward, Kristin Siggeirsdottir, Vilmundur Gudnason
2016 — conf
A new fast large neighbourhood search for service network design with asset balance constraints.
SSCI
Ruibin Bai, John R. Woodward, Nachiappan Subramanian
2016 A conf
Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic.
GECCO
Libin Hong, John H. Drake, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan
2016 — conf
Connecting Automatic Parameter Tuning, Genetic Programming as a Hyper-heuristic, and Genetic Improvement Programming.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Colin G. Johnson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2016 — conf
ECADA 2016 Chairs' Welcome.
GECCO (Companion)
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2016 — conf
Evals is Not Enough: Why We Should Report Wall-clock Time.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Colin G. Johnson
2016 — conf
GP vs GI: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Colin G. Johnson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2016 — conf
Hyper-Heuristics.
GECCO (Companion)
Daniel R. Tauritz, John R. Woodward
2015 — conf
Fitness as Task-relevant Information Accumulation.
GECCO (Companion)
Colin G. Johnson, John R. Woodward
2015 — conf
Genetic Improvement of Energy Usage is only as Reliable as the Measurements are Accurate.
GECCO (Companion)
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2015 — conf
Hyper-Heuristics.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Daniel R. Tauritz
2015 — conf
Metaheuristic Design Pattern: Surrogate Fitness Functions.
GECCO (Companion)
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Jerry Swan
2014 — conf
Automated design of algorithms and genetic improvement: contrast and commonalities.
GECCO (Companion)
Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2014 — conf
Benchmarks that matter for genetic programming.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Simon Martin, Jerry Swan
2014 J jnl
Contrasting meta-learning and hyper-heuristic research: the role of evolutionary algorithms.
Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach.
Gisele L. Pappa, Gabriela Ochoa, Matthew R. Hyde, Alex Alves Freitas, John R. Woodward, Jerry Swan
2014 J jnl
Searching the Hyper-heuristic Design Space.
Cogn. Comput.
Jerry Swan, John R. Woodward, Ender Özcan, Graham Kendall, Edmund K. Burke
2014 — conf
The 'composite' design pattern in metaheuristics.
GECCO (Companion)
John R. Woodward, Jerry Swan, Simon Martin
2012 J jnl
Automating the Packing Heuristic Design Process with Genetic Programming.
Evol. Comput.
Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, John R. Woodward
2010 J jnl
A Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic Approach for Evolving 2-D Strip Packing Heuristics.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput.
Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, John R. Woodward
2009 — conf
Canonical representation genetic programming.
GEC Summit
John R. Woodward, Ruibin Bai
2009 — conf
Why evolution is not a good paradigm for program induction: a critique of genetic programming.
GEC Summit
John R. Woodward, Ruibin Bai
2007 B conf
A histogram-matching approach to the evolution of bin-packing strategies.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Riccardo Poli, John R. Woodward, Edmund K. Burke
2007 A conf
Automatic heuristic generation with genetic programming: evolving a jack-of-all-trades or a master of one.
GECCO
Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, John R. Woodward
2006 B conf
Complexity and Cartesian Genetic Programming.
EuroGP
John R. Woodward
2006 B conf
Invariance of Function Complexity Under Primitive Recursive Functions.
EuroGP
John R. Woodward
2003 B conf
Evolving Turing Complete representations.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
John R. Woodward
2003 B conf
GA or GP? That is not the question.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
John R. Woodward
2003 B conf
Modularity in Genetic Programming.
EuroGP
John R. Woodward
2003 B conf
No Free Lunch, Program Induction and Combinatorial Problems.
EuroGP
John R. Woodward, James R. Neil