Cunha, J. C.Medeiros, P.Duarte, V.Lourenço, J.Gomes, M. C.2020-03-052020-03-0519991-892512-15-7PURE: 17193403PURE UUID: 1162b7be-45f1-464e-8946-fc8643d2a472WOS: 000167653300267ORCID: /0000-0002-8495-6442/work/70243859ORCID: /0000-0002-1004-3843/work/129286420http://hdl.handle.net/10362/93834We describe our experimentation with the design and implementation of specific environments, consisting of heterogeneous computational, visualization, and control components. We illustrate the approach with the design of a problem-solving environment supporting the execution of genetic algorithms. We describe a prototype steering parallel execution, visualization, and steering. A life cycle for the development of applications based an genetic algorithms is proposed.29752engproblem-solving environmentsparallel genetic algorithmsconference object