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We document the program and the immediate outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 18052 "Genetic Improvement of Software". The seminar brought together researchers in Genetic Improvement (GI) and related areas of software engineering to investigate what is achievable with current technology and the current impediments to progress and how GI can affect the software development process. Several talks covered the state-of-the-art and work in progress. Seven emergent topics have been identified ranging from the nature of the GI search space through benchmarking and practical applications. The seminar has already resulted in multiple research paper publications. Four by participants of the seminar will be presented at the GI workshop co-located with the top conference in software engineering - ICSE. Several researchers started new collaborations, results of which we hope to see in the near future.

We document the program and the immediate outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 18052 "Genetic Improvement of Software". The seminar brought together researchers in Genetic Improvement (GI) and related areas of software engineering to investigate what is achievable with current technology and the current impediments to progress and how GI can affect the software development process. Several talks covered the state-of-the-art and work in progress. Seven emergent topics have been identified ranging from the nature of the GI search space through benchmarking and practical applications. The seminar has already resulted in multiple research paper publications. Four by participants of the seminar will be presented at the GI workshop co-located with the top conference in software engineering - ICSE. Several researchers started new collaborations, results of which we hope to see in the near future.

We use the minimal instruction set F-4 computer to define a minimal Turing complete T7 computer suitable for genetic programming (GP) and amenable to theoretical analysis. Experimental runs and mathematical analysis of the T7, show the fraction of halting programs is drops to zero as bigger programs are run.