No. 47 (00158) Family name : Berlich Given name : Dirk Ruediger Affiliation : Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum Abbreviation : E-mail address : ruediger.berlich@iwr.fzk.de Title : Parametric Optimization in Distributed Environments Authors : Ruediger Berlich; Marcel Kunze Abstract : The talk presents examples of parametric optimization in particle physics analysis and discusses a library of distributed Evolutionary Algorithms that was developed as part of this work. Using this tool it is possible to accelerate the search for optimal parameter sets significantly. The library's performance is discussed as well as the pro's and con's of this approach.