Fast REST API prototyping with Crochet and Scala
I just finished committing the last changes to Crochet and tagged version 0.1.4vcli now publicly available on GitHub (http://github.com/xllora/Crochet). Also feel free to visit the issues page in case you run into question/problems/bugs.
Motivation
Crochet is a light weight web framework oriented to rapid prototyping of REST APIs. If you are looking for a Rails like [...]
GECCO 2010 Submission Deadline (Extended)
If you are planning to submit a paper for the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the deadline is January 13, 2010 (and now extended to January 27th). You can find more information at the GECCO 2010 calendar site.
Meandre is going Scala
After quite a bit of experimenting with different alternatives, Meandre is moving into Scala. Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. This is not a radical process, but a gradual one while I am starting to revisit the infrastructure for the next [...]
Scaling Genetic Algorithms using MapReduce
Below you may find the abstract to and the link to the technical report of the paper entitled “Scaling Genetic Algorithms using MapReduce” that will be presented at the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) 2009 by Verma, A., Llorà, X., Campbell, R.H., Goldberg, D.E. next month.
Abstract:Genetic algorithms(GAs) are increasingly [...]
