Evolution and hypercomputing in global distributed evolvable virtual machines environment

Abstract

Inspired by advances in evolutionary biology we extended existing evolutionary computation techniques and developed a self-organising, self-adaptable cellular system for multitask learning, called Evolvable Virtual Machine (EVM). The system comprises a specialised program architecture for referencing and addressing computational units (programs) and an infrastructure for executing those computational units within a global networked computing environment, such as Internet. Each program can be considered to be an agent and is capable of calling (co-operating with) other programs. In this system, complex relationships between agents may self-assemble in a symbiotic-like fashion. In this article we present an extension of previous work on the single threaded, single machine EVM architecture for use in global distributed environments. This paper presents a description of the extended Evolvable Virtual Machine (EVM) computational model, that can work in a global networked environment and provides the architecture for asynchronous massively parallel processing. The new computational environment is presented and followed with a discussion of experimental results. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.