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WEA 2018: Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering pp 17–29Cite as

Going Stateless in Concurrent Evolutionary Algorithms

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Concurrent languages such as Perl 6 fully leverage the power of current multi-core and hyper-threaded computer architectures, and they include easy ways of automatically parallelizing code. However, to achieve more computational capability by using all threads and cores, algorithms need to be redesigned to be run in a concurrent environment; in particular, the use of a reactive, fully functional patterns need to turn the algorithm into a series of stateless steps, with simple functions that receive all the context and map it to the next stage. In this paper, we are going to analyze different versions of these stateless, reactive architectures applied to evolutionary algorithms, assessing how they interact with the characteristics of the evolutionary algorithm itself and show how they improve the scaling behavior and performance. We will use the Perl 6 language, which is a modern, concurrent language that was released recently and is still under very active development.

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This paper has been supported in part by projects TIN2014-56494-C4-3-P s (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and DeepBio (TIN2017-85727-C4-2-P). I would like to express my gratefulness to the users in the #perl6 IRC channel, specially Elizabeth Mattijsen, Timo Paulsen and Zoffix Znet, who helped me with the adventure of programming efficient concurrent evolutionary algorithms.

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  2. Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Calzada Tecnológico, s/n, Tijuana, Mexico

    José-Mario García-Valdez

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Merelo, J.J., García-Valdez, JM. (2018). Going Stateless in Concurrent Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Figueroa-García, J., López-Santana, E., Rodriguez-Molano, J. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 915. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00350-0_2

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