Optimization Problems -- simulation instead of empirical examples

• games
• image compression
• control
  • robotics (virtual and physical)
  • air flight control
• scheduling and planning
  • elevators
  • trains
  • traffic lights
  • truck packing and shipment
  • classes
  • computer networks
• optimization
  • jet engine
  • gas piplines
  • music composision
• hardware
  • evolve a suite of test vectors
  • VLSI/circuits
  • sorting networks