Message from the Chairs

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 14th edition of the International Genetic Improvement workshop, GI-2025, to take place at ICSE-2025 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, on 27 April 2025. Genetic Improvement is essentially the application of search-based software engineering (SBSE) to the software itself. Be it for automatically repairing programs (APR, auto fix) or optimizing existing source, byte, assembler, intermediate, or machine code to improve its results or operation. Such as running faster or using less resources (e.g. energy). Since 2015, the GI workshop has been held annually as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) and/or the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). We are very pleased that the workshop will also be held at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) for the seventh time. Its first edition at ICSE 2018 in Göteborg, Sweden (and 5th workshop edition overall), showed that there is great interest in genetic improvement in the software engineering community. Since starting to hold the GI workshop at ICSE, the workshop has also been run several times at GECCO (2018 Kyoto, Japan, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic, 2020 Canctin, Mexico, 2022 Virtual). In addition, several GI tutorials have been given at conferences, such as PPSN 2020, ASE 2020 and each year at GECCO from 2020-2025. Finally, there have been multiple CREST Open Workshops (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/crest/crest-open-workshops) on Genetic Improvement. COW65 and earlier are archived: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/pasLevents/.