Introduction: special issue on parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, part I

摘要

Parallel and distributed approaches are natural in evolutionary computation and they have been used intensively since the early years of this research field. Evolutionary algorithms, in fact, have often been described as intrinsically parallel computational methods. The reason for this is that many of the main computational tasks characterizing this family of heuristics are independent of each other; thus it is straightforward to perform them at the same time. This is the case, for instance, for the evaluation of the fitness of the individuals in a population.