Keynote

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Mark Harman

Facebook and University College London, United Kingdom

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Silvia Sapora

Facebook, United Kingdom

AI techniques for Simulating Behaviour using Facebook’s WW Social Media Simulation System

This talk describes Facebook's development of WW, its cyber-cyber digital twin, and, in particular, the way it uses artificial intelligence techniques for training bot behaviours. WW is a simulation of Facebook user behaviour on the real Facebook platform, which Facebook uses to test and optimise its products. There are inherently many foundational scientific challenges that come to the fore when attempting to safely, reliably and effectively simulate user behaviours at scale. The keynote talk will cover some existing practical and scientific work at Facebook, as well as outlining open problems and challenges for the research community for this research agenda at the intersection of AI and SE.

Topics

  • Search-based software engineering
  • Software analytics
  • Automated program repair
  • Constraint satisfaction and SE
  • Robotics and SE
  • Autonomy and SE
  • Theorem proving and SE
  • Model checking and SE
  • Optimization and SE
  • Genetic algorithms and SE
  • Natural language processing and SE
  • Cognitive psychology and SE
  • Data mining and SE
  • Logic programming and SE
  • and other related areas in the intersection of AI and SE

Organisation

Workshop Co-Chairs

  • Shin Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
  • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia

Virtualisation and Web Chair

Steering

  • Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Leandro Minku, University of Leicester, UK
  • Çetin Meriçli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Andriy Miransky, Ryerson University, Canada

Dates

The workshop will be held virtually on 15 November 2021.

  • Submission: Friday 3 September 2021
  • Notification: Friday 24 September 2021
  • Camera Ready: Friday 1 October 2021

Papers

Submission Guidelines

Easychair

Formatting Guidelines

Papers must not exceed 6 pages. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

Easychair

Please submit a pdf of your paper in the following easychair link

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