Simulated Annealing Advances, Applications and Hybridizations

• Other Authors: de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki, Marcos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2012
• Subjects: Fluid mechanics; Dynamics & statics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Simulated Annealing is a probabilistic meta-heuristic that is based on statistical mechanics: while at high temperatures molecules in a liquid move freely, the slow reduction of temperature decreases the thermal mobility of the molecules. The final state forms a pure crystal which also corresponds t...