My coauthors and I used a nigh-identical technique [1] (see Section 2 Implementation) in 2015 to: 1. Optimize the Guava library for energy consumption, 2. By v

My coauthors and I used a nigh-identical technique [1] (see Section 2 Implementation) in 2015 to: 1. Optimize the Guava library for energy consumption, 2. By varying the implementations of data type interfaces, 3. Using a genetic algorithm, 4. and our results were presented in SSBSE 2015 and published in the conference proceedings. Two years later, Basios et. al presented at the very same conference [2], where they 1. Optimize the Guava library for memory consumption, 2. By varying the implementations of data type interfaces, 3. Using a genetic algorithm, 4. and their results were presented in SSBSE 2017 and published in the conference proceedings. I am overjoyed that Basios et al. managed to take this technique so far, and that they obtained such impressive results. I am disappointed, however, that our work still goes completely uncited and unacknowledged in their papers. Given that it involved the same library, the same techniques, the same family of algorithms and the same conference, this simply could not have slipped through the cracks of any literature review - especially since one of the authors was present and interacted with us at SSBSE 2015. I'd be happy to hear any explanation for this omission. [1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-22183-0_20 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-22183-... [2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-66299-2_14 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-66299-2_...