1st International Workshop on Distributed Evolutionary Computation in Informal Environments

Online conference proceedings for the IWDECIE workshop, taking place in New Orleans on June 5th, 2011. The workshop focuses on non-conventional implementations of bioinspired algorithms and its conceptual implications.

Cloud-based Evolutionary Algorithms: An algorithmic study

After a proof of concept using Dropbox(tm), a free storage and synchronization service, showed that an evolutionary algorithm using several dissimilar computers connected via WiFi or Ethernet had a good scaling behavior in terms of evaluations per second, it remains to be proved whether that effect also translates to the algorithmic performance of the algorithm. In this paper we will check several different, and difficult, problems, and see what effects the automatic load-balancing and asynchrony have on the speed of resolution of problems.