19/04/2010 1 pALS: an Object Oriented Framework for Developing Parallel Cooperative Harold Castro, Andrés Bernal COMIT (COMunications and Information Technology) Systems and Computing Engineering Department Universidad de los Andes Developing Parallel Cooperative Metaheuristics Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia Agenda  Motivation and Related Works  ALS  The pALS framework  Achievements and Results  Conclusions NIDISC'10, Atlanta, April 19-23 2