Using free cloud storage services for distributed evolutionary algorithms

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1603-1610

  Arenas, Maribel G ^a   Merelo, Juan Julián ^a   Castillo, Pedro ^a   Laredo, Juan Luis J ^a   Romero, Gustavo ^a   Mora, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud storage; Distributed algorithms; Evolutionary algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMMODITY HARDWARE; COMPUTE-INTENSIVE TASKS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SCALING BEHAVIOR; STORAGE SERVICES; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TOOLSETS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAKES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860393163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001576.2001792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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