Have you ever used a genetic algorithm in real-world applications?

Question

I was wondering how common it is to find genetic algorithm approaches in commercial code.

It always seemed to me that some kinds of schedulers could benefit from a G

Answer 1

If you want to find an example, look at Postgres's Query Planner. It uses many techniques, and one just so happens to be genetic.

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/geqo-pg-intro.html