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Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing

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Simulated annealing has proved to be an easy and reliable method for finding optimal values of a problem in cases where there is no road map to possible solutions. Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing offers an introduction to this topic for novices and provides an informative review of the area for the more expert reader. This book brings together for the first time many of the theoretical foundations for improvements to algorithms for global optimisation that until now existed only in scattered research articles.
List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Overview. 1. The Place of Simulated Annealing in the Arsenal of Global Optimization; 2. Six Simulated Annealing Problems; 3. Nomenclature; 4. Bare Bones Simulated Annealing; Part II. Facts. 5. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics; 6. Relaxation Dynamics-Finite Markov Chains; Part III. Improvements and Conjectures. 7. Ensembles; 8. The Brick Wall Effect and Optimal Ensemble Size; 9. The Objective Function; 10. Move Classes and Their Implementations; 11. Acceptance Rules; 12. Thermodynamic Portraits; 13. Selecting the Schedule; 14. Estimating the Global Minimum Energy; Part IV. Towards Structure Theory and Real Understanding. 15. Structure Theory of Complex Systems; 16. What Makes Annealing Tick?; Part V. Resources. 17. Supplementary Materials; Bibliography; Index.
An introduction to this topic for novices which provides an informative review of the area for the more expert reader.
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