Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low‐effort global computing

@article{Loewe2007EvolutionhomeOO,
  title={Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low‐effort global computing},
  author={Laurence Loewe},
  journal={Software: Practice and Experience},
  year={2007},
  volume={37},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5143213}
}
This paper addresses experiences in low‐effort global computing made with evolution@home over more than four years and shows how allowing participants to choose the class of computational complexity they want to contribute to can help to deal with the bewildering variety of computational complexities that easily result from individual‐based models.
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