(CF) Selection of performance metric before selecting the configurator to use. What is the exact problem specification for configuration?
(CN) convenience methods in MetaAlgorithm hiding next(), hasNext(), report() from the 3rd-party developer; instead providing an interface like AlgorithmRun fetchRun(Algorithm a), with no InterruptedException; implies an AlgorithmRun class that can adaptively switch between a "queued" and a "running" implementation for before and after the true environment fetchRun(...) call is made/returns.
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(HH) Service-oriented volunteer computing. See, e.g., "Service-Oriented Volunteer Computing for Massively Parallel Constraint Solving Using Portfolios", Zeynep Kiziltan and Jacopo Mauro, in CPAIOR-2010 proceedings.