Service oriented evolutionary algorithms

Developing services in a service oriented architecture for evolutionary algorithms

“…In [8] we demonstrated that it is possible to create a service oriented architecture for EAs using a specific SOA technology. This architecture used the features that SOA offers.…”

“…In our previous work [8] we presented an abstract Service Oriented Architecture for Evolutionary Algorithms (SOA-EA), with guidelines and steps to migrate from traditional development in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to SOA. It also presented a specific implementation, called OSGiLiath (OSGi Laboratory for Implementation and Testing of Heuristics): an environment for the development of distributed algorithms extensible via plug-ins architecture and based in a wide-accepted software specification (OSGi).…”

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web

“…29 The development of Sodarace was supported by the UKʼs Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and had a strong public outreach and educational flavor. 30 Elsewhere, an early example of work employing a distributed web-based genetic algorithm was reported in 1998 by Jens Astor and Christoph Adami [6] (with further experiments reported a couple of years later [7]). The work investigated the evolution of developmental artificial neural networks (ANNs), and utilized a server program written in Java that farmed out evaluations of individual ANNs to heterogeneous clients running a browser-based Java applet (or a local desktop Java program).…”

“…30 In 2013, Szerlip and Stanley developed an open-source browser-based version of Sodarace, called IESoR [123]. It features a developmental encoding of creatures suitable for evolutionary experiments, and is designed to be an accessible platform that other researchers can easily use.…”

“…These studies present some interesting ideas that could be applied to WebAL projects. A full review of the general field of web-based distributed evolutionary algorithms is beyond the scope of this article, but recent reviews can be found in [30] and [31].…”