A methodology to develop service oriented evolutionary algorithms

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology to design and implement Evolutionary Algorithms using the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm. This paradigm allows to deal with some of the shortcomings in the Evolutionary Algorithms area, facilitating the development, integration, standardization of services that conform a evolutionary algorithm, and, besides, the dynamic alteration of those elements in runtime. A four-step methodology to design services for Evolutionary Algorithms is presented: identification, specification, implementation and deployment. Also, as an example of application of this methodology, an adaptive algorithm is developed.