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Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy Between AI and Software Engineering

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Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications (SETTA 2018)

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As an example of exploiting the synergy between AI and software engineering, the field of intelligent software engineering has emerged with various advances in recent years. Such field broadly addresses issues on intelligent [software engineering] and [intelligence software] engineering. The former, intelligent [software engineering], focuses on instilling intelligence in approaches developed to address various software engineering tasks to accomplish high effectiveness and efficiency. The latter, [intelligence software] engineering, focuses on addressing various software engineering tasks for intelligence software, e.g., AI software. In this paper, we discuss recent research and future directions in the field of intelligent software engineering.

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation under grants no. CNS-1513939 and CNS1564274, and a grant from the ZJUI Research Program.

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Xie, T. (2018). Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy Between AI and Software Engineering. In: Feng, X., Müller-Olm, M., Yang, Z. (eds) Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications. SETTA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99933-3_1

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