在工作中，我遇到了这样一个问题:给定M个任务和N个dsp，如何将任务分配给dsp是最好的?“最佳”定义为“最大负载DSP的负载最小化”。有不同类型的任务，不同的任务类型有不同的性能分支，这取决于它们被分配到哪里，所以我将一组工作到dsp的分配编码为“DNA字符串”，然后使用遗传算法来“培育”我所能“培育”的最佳分配字符串。

它运行得相当好(比我之前的方法好得多，之前的方法是评估每个可能的组合……对于非平凡问题的大小，它将需要数年才能完成!)，唯一的问题是无法判断是否已经达到了最优解。你只能决定当前的“最大努力”是否足够好，或者让它运行更长时间，看看它是否可以做得更好。

我做了一个完整的GA框架，命名为“GALAB”，解决了很多问题:

定位GSM ANTs (BTS)以减少重叠和空白位置。 资源约束项目调度。 进化图景的创造。(Evopic) 旅行推销员问题。 n -皇后和n -颜色问题。 骑士之旅和背包问题。 魔方和数独谜题。 字符串压缩，基于超字符串问题。 二维包装问题。 微型人工生命APP。 鲁比克难题。

I used a simple genetic algorithm to optimize the signal to noise ratio of a wave that was represented as a binary string. By flipping the the bits certain ways over several million generations I was able to produce a transform that resulted in a higher signal to noise ratio of that wave. The algorithm could have also been "Simulated Annealing" but was not used in this case. At their core, genetic algorithms are simple, and this was about as simple of a use case that I have seen, so I didn't use a framework for generation creation and selection - only a random seed and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio function at hand.

Several years ago I used ga's to optimize asr (automatic speech recognition) grammars for better recognition rates. I started with fairly simple lists of choices (where the ga was testing combinations of possible terms for each slot) and worked my way up to more open and complex grammars. Fitness was determined by measuring separation between terms/sequences under a kind of phonetic distance function. I also experimented with making weakly equivalent variations on a grammar to find one that compiled to a more compact representation (in the end I went with a direct algorithm, and it drastically increased the size of the "language" that we could use in applications).

最近，我将它们用作默认假设，以此来测试由各种算法生成的解决方案的质量。这主要涉及分类和不同类型的拟合问题(即创建一个“规则”，解释审查员对数据集所做的一组选择)。

首先，Jonathan Koza的《遗传编程》(在亚马逊上)几乎是一本关于遗传和进化算法/编程技术的书，有很多例子。我强烈建议你去看看。

As for my own use of a genetic algorithm, I used a (home grown) genetic algorithm to evolve a swarm algorithm for an object collection/destruction scenario (practical purpose could have been clearing a minefield). Here is a link to the paper. The most interesting part of what I did was the multi-staged fitness function, which was a necessity since the simple fitness functions did not provide enough information for the genetic algorithm to sufficiently differentiate between members of the population.

There was an competition on codechef.com (great site by the way, monthly programming competitions) where one was supposed to solve an unsolveable sudoku (one should come as close as possible with as few wrong collumns/rows/etc as possible).What I would do, was to first generate a perfect sudoku and then override the fields, that have been given. From this pretty good basis on I used genetic programming to improve my solution.I couldn't think of a deterministic approach in this case, because the sudoku was 300x300 and search would've taken too long.