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

I haven't but I've heard of this company (can't remember their name) which uses mutating, genetic algos to calculate placements and lengths of antennas (or something) from a friend of mine. And they're supposed to (according to my friend) have huge success with this. I guess GA is just too complex for "average Joe developer" to become mainstream. Kind of like Map Reduce - spectacularly cool, but WAY too advanced to hit the "mainstream"...