Patent ID: 8271259

Claim:
A system to determine a solution for a problem including a solution space represented by one or more nodes, said system comprising: a computer system, including at least one processor and an operating system to control operation of said computer system, to dynamically configure and emulate a hardware architecture of a processing system that processes said one or more nodes to determine said solution for said problem, wherein at least one of said nodes includes data for said problem and said computer system further includes: a virtual machine unit to emulate said hardware architecture and manage said nodes within said solution space, wherein said hardware architecture is designed to process said nodes; a virtual operating system to configure said virtual machine unit and to control operation of said virtual machine unit to emulate said hardware architecture based on parameters, said virtual operating system including: an instantiation engine to create and to delete said nodes; a configuration engine to configure said nodes of said solution space in a topology to determine said solution for said problem; a population engine to store and to evaluate said data for said problem within said nodes; a navigation engine to traverse said topology and to process selected ones of said nodes based on said parameters to determine said solution; and an evolution engine to update said nodes and said topology based on said parameters.