keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic
improvement, SBSE, Automated Program Repair, Search
space exploration, Code naturalness",
isbn13 = "978-3-030-27454-2",
DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27455-9_12",
abstract = "Automated Program Repair (APR) is a research field
that has recently gained attention due to its advances
in proposing methods to fix buggy programs without
human intervention. Search-Based Program Repair methods
have difficulties to traverse the search space, mainly,
because it is challenging and costly to evaluate each
variant. Therefore, aiming to improve each program's
variant evaluation through providing more information
to the fitness function, we propose the combination of
two techniques, Doc2vec and LSTM, to capture high-level
differences among variants and to capture the
dependence between source code statements in the fault
localization region. The experiments performed with the
IntroClass benchmark show that our approach captures
differences between variants according to the level of
changes they received, and the resulting information is
useful to balance the search between the exploration
and exploitation steps. Besides, the proposal might be
promising to filter program variants that are adequate
to the suspicious portion of the code.",