A performance assessment of evolutionary algorithms in volunteer computing environments:

the importance of entropy

Merelo, de las Cuevas, García-Sánchez, García-Valdez

Pat Steir is an artist that uses often this drip painting technique, introducing chance in her painting and giving them this natural look, as in the case of these Sixteen waterfalls. How structure emerges in the lower reaches of the canvas via this waterfall technique, by mixing one waterfall with another, reminds us how the power of this painting is not simple aggregation, but the mixing and interaction with whatever was on the canvas before that. In fact, the Chinese word for evolutiona> is the same word as for flow, as in a river, as in dripping. It's endless change, and in this paper we will see that evolution is helped by this creation of complexity, not only by aggregation. And the fact that this interaction creates beauty reminds us how volunteer evolutionary algorithms performance depends not only on the simple aggregation of new users, but also in the complex nature of their interaction.

Architecture of a volunteer system

Time-to-solution vs. entropy

A performance assessment of evolutionary algorithms in volunteer computing environments:

the importance of entropy

Merelo, de las Cuevas, García-Sánchez, García-Valdez

Architecture of a volunteer system

Time-to-solution vs. entropy

Diversity pays off

Diversity-enhancing trumps the blind gathering of volunteers

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