floor layout Pop music record production Quality control Sorting network Timetabling problems, such as designing a non-conflicting class timetable for a large university Vehicle routing problem Optimal bearing placement Computer-automated design Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Multiple Sequence Alignment Bioinformatics: RNA structure prediction Bioinformatics: Motif Discovery Biology and computational chemistry Building phylogenetic trees. Gene expression profiling analysis. Medicine: Clinical decision support in ophthalmology and oncology Computational Neuroscience: finding values for the maximal conductances of ion channels in biophysically detailed neuron models Protein folding and protein/ligand docking Selection of optimal mathematical model to describe biological systems Operon prediction. General Applications Neural Networks; particularly recurrent neural networks Training artificial neural networks when pre-classified training examples are not readily obtainable (neuroevolution) Physics Optimization of beam dynamics in accelerator physics. Design of particle accelerator beamlines Other Applications Clustering, using genetic algorithms to optimize a wide range of different fit-functions. Multidimensional systems Multimodal Optimization Multiple criteria production scheduling Multiple population topologies and interchange methodologies Mutation testing Parallelization of GAs/GPs including use of hierarchical decomposition of problem domains and design spaces nesting of irregular shapes using feature matching and GAs. Rare event analysis Solving the machine-component grouping problem required for cellular manufacturing systems Stochastic optimization Tactical asset allocation and international equity strategies Wireless sensor/ad-hoc networks. References Mathematics-related lists Applications