A cookbook for using the model-view controller user interface paradigm in Smalltalk-80
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Bayanihan: building and studying web-based volunteer computing systems using Java
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Programming Ruby: the pragmatic programmer's guide
Programming Ruby: the pragmatic programmer's guide
A scalable, robust network for parallel computing
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Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems
Future Generation Computer Systems - Best papers from symp. on cluster computing and the grid (CCGRID 2001)
A Note on the Griewank Test Function
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Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design
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Necessity is the mother of invention: a simple grid computing system using commodity tools
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on computational grids
JavaScript Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)
JavaScript Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)
High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing
E-SCIENCE '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
At the forge: assessing ruby on rails
Linux Journal
Agile Web Development with Rails
Agile Web Development with Rails
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: PPSN X
A distributed pool architecture for genetic algorithms
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Social networks as a platform for distributed dictionary attack
CIT'11 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Communications and information technology
SofEA: a pool-based framework for evolutionary algorithms using CouchDB
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Distributed evolutionary computing system based on web browsers with javascript
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Designing and testing a pool-based evolutionary algorithm
Natural Computing: an international journal
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The challenge of ad-hoc computing is to find the way of taking advantage of spare cycles in an efficient way that takes into account all capabilities of the devices and inter connections available to them. In this paper we explore distributed evolutionary computation based on the Ruby on Rails framework, which overlays a Model-View-Controller on evolutionary computation. It allows anybody with a web browser (that is, mostly everybody connected to the Internet) to participate in an evolutionary computation experiment. Using a straight forward farming model, we consider different factors, such as the size of the population used. We are mostly interested in how they impact on performance, but also the scaling behavior when a non-trivial number of computers is applied to the problem. Experiments show the impact of different packet sizes on performance, as well as a quite limited scaling behavior, due tothe characteristics of the server. Several solutions for that problem are proposed.