Soil aggregates as massively concurrent evolutionary incubators

Massively concurrent agent-based evolutionary computing

The fusion of the multi-agent paradigm with evolutionary computation yielded promising results in many optimization problems. Evolutionary multi-agent system (EMAS) are more similar to biological evolution than classical evolutionary algorithms. However, technological limitations prevented the use of fully asynchronous agents in previous EMAS implementations. In this paper we present a new algo...

Coordination of Massively Concurrent

Coordination of massively concurrent activities

Massively parallel and distributed systems open new horizons for large applications and present new challenges for software technology. Many applications already take advantage of the increased raw computational power provided by such parallel systems to yield significantly shorter turnaround times. However, the availability of so many processors to work on a single application presents a new c...

Firms as Incubators of Open-Source Software

Many successful open source projects have been developed by programmers who were employed by firms but worked on the open source projects on the side due to economic incentives like career improvement benefits. Such side work may be a good thing for the employing firms too if they get some strategic value from the open source software and/ or if the productivity of the programmers on these proj...

CIS: A Massively Concurrent Rule-Based System

Recently researchers have suggested several computational models in which, one programs by specifying large networks of simple devices. Such models are interesting because they go to the roots of concurrency the circuit level. A problem with the models is that it is unclear how to program large systems and expensive to implement many features that are taken for granted m symbolic programming la...