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  1. An Efficient QAOA via a Polynomial QPU-Needless Approach

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  2. Local Optima Markov Chain: A New Tool for Landscape-aware Analysis of Algorithm Dynamics

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  3. Genetic Algorithm with Linkage Learning

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Renato Tinós, Dr. Francisco Chicano

  4. To Combine or not to Combine Graybox Crossover and Local Search?

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  5. Genetic algorithm for qubits initialisation in noisy intermediate-scale quantum machines

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  6. Quadratization of gray coded representations, long path problems and needle functions

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  7. Real-like MAX-SAT instances and the landscape structure across the phase transition

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  8. Partition crossover for continuous optimization

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Renato Tinós, Dr. Francisco Chicano

  9. Local optima network analysis for MAX-SAT

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  10. Efficient refactoring scheduling based on partial order reduction

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  11. Tunneling between plateaus

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Renato Tinós, Dr. Francisco Chicano

  12. Enhancing partition crossover with articulation points analysis

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano, Renato Tinós

  13. Exact search-space size for the refactoring scheduling problem

    Article • Automated Software Engineering, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  14. Preface to the Special Issue on Theory of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

    Article • Algorithmica, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  15. Editorial for the Special Issue on Combinatorial Optimization Problems

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, December 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  16. Exploring the structure of an objective function can help to design better optimization algorithms

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, September 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  17. Tunnelling Crossover Networks

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano, Renato Tinós

  18. Search based algorithms for test sequence generation in functional testing

    Article • Information and Software Technology, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  19. Partition Crossover for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano, Renato Tinós

  20. Exact computation of the expectation surfaces for uniform crossover along with bit-flip mutation

    Article • Theoretical Computer Science, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  21. The component model for elementary landscapes and partial neighborhoods

    Article • Theoretical Computer Science, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  22. The software project scheduling problem: A scalability analysis of multi-objective metaheuristics

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  23. A parallel evolutionary algorithm for prioritized pairwise testing of software product lines

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  24. Efficient identification of improving moves in a ball for pseudo-boolean problems

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  25. Estimating software testing complexity

    Article • Information and Software Technology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  26. Fitness Function Distributions over Generalized Search Neighborhoods in theq-ary Hypercube

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, November 2013, The MIT Press

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  27. Multi-objective Optimal Test Suite Computation for Software Product Line Pairwise Testing

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  28. Problem understanding through landscape theory

    Article • July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  29. Autocorrelation measures for the quadratic assignment problem

    Article • Applied Mathematics Letters, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  30. A Novel Multiobjective Formulation of the Robust Software Project Scheduling Problem

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  31. Evolutionary algorithm for prioritized pairwise test data generation

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  32. Exact computation of the expectation curves for uniform crossover

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  33. Exact Computation of the Fitness-Distance Correlation for Pseudoboolean Functions with One Global Optimum

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  34. Local Optima Networks, Landscape Autocorrelation and Heuristic Search Performance

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  35. On the Application of SAT Solvers to the Test Suite Minimization Problem

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  36. Quasi-elementary Landscapes and Superpositions of Elementary Landscapes

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  37. A Methodology to Find the Elementary Landscape Decomposition of Combinatorial Optimization Problems

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, December 2011, The MIT Press

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  38. Evolutionary algorithms for the multi-objective test data generation problem

    Article • Software Practice and Experience, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  39. On the scalability of multi-objective metaheuristics for the software scheduling problem

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  40. Elementary landscape decomposition of the frequency assignment problem

    Article • Theoretical Computer Science, October 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  41. Elementary landscape decomposition of the 0-1 unconstrained quadratic optimization

    Article • Journal of Heuristics, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  42. Benchmark Generator for Software Testers

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  43. Comparing Metaheuristic Algorithms for Error Detection in Java Programs

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  44. Elementary Landscape Decomposition of the Test Suite Minimization Problem

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  45. Exact computation of the expectation curves of the bit-flip mutation using landscapes theory

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  46. Using multi-objective metaheuristics to solve the software project scheduling problem

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  47. Elementary landscape decomposition of the quadratic assignment problem

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  48. Elementary landscapes of frequency assignment problems

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  49. Dealing with inheritance in OO evolutionary testing

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  50. Observations in using parallel and sequential evolutionary algorithms for automatic software testing

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  51. Ant colony optimization with partial order reduction for discovering safety property violations in concurrent models

    Article • Information Processing Letters, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  52. Finding liveness errors with ACO

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  53. Optimal Location of Antennas in Telecommunication Networks

    Article • May 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  54. Remote Optimization Service

    Article • May 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  55. Software project management with GAs

    Article • Information Sciences, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  56. ACOhg

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  57. Finding safety errors with ACO

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  58. Optimal antenna placement using a new multi-objective chc algorithm

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  59. Using metaheuristic algorithms remotely via ROS

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  60. Software Testing with Evolutionary Strategies

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  61. Parallel Metaheuristics in Telecommunications

    Article • September 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Francisco Chicano

  62. ON THE BEHAVIOR OF PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMAL PLACEMENT OF ANTENNAE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS

    Article • International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, April 2005, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr. Francisco Chicano