abstract = "The success of a genetic programming system in solving
a problem is often a function of the available
computational resources. For many problems, the larger
the population size and the longer the genetic
programming run the more likely the system is to find a
solution. In order to increase the probability of
success on difficult problems, designers and users of
genetic programming systems often desire access to
distributed computation, either locally or across the
Internet, to evaluate fitness cases more quickly. Most
systems for internet-scale distributed computation
require a user's explicit participation and the
installation of client side software. We present a
proof-of-concept system for distributed computation of
genetic programming via asynchronous JavaScript and XML
(AJAX) techniques which requires no explicit user
interaction and no installation of client side
software. Clients automatically and possibly even
unknowingly participate in a distributed genetic
programming system simply by visiting a webpage,
thereby allowing for the solution of genetic
programming problems without running a single local
fitness evaluation. The system can be easily introduced
into existing webpages to exploit unused client-side
computation for the solution of genetic programming and
other problems.",
notes = "GECCO-2007 A joint meeting of the sixteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2007) and the twelfth annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2007).