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2018-01-16
Landsborough, Jason, Harding, Stephen, Fugate, Sunny.  2017.  Learning from Super-mutants: Searching Post-apocalyptic Software Ecosystems for Novel Semantics-preserving Transforms. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. :1529–1536.

In light of recent advances in genetic-algorithm-driven automated program modification, our team has been actively exploring the art, engineering, and discovery of novel semantics-preserving transforms. While modern compilers represent some of the best ideas we have for automated program modification, current approaches represent only a small subset of the types of transforms which can be achieved. In the wilderness of post-apocalyptic software ecosystems of genetically-modified and mutant programs, there exist a broad array of potentially useful software mutations, including semantics-preserving transforms that may play an important role in future software design, development, and most importantly, evolution.