Schneider, Johannes J.; Puchta, Markus - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 24, pp. 5822-5831
Simulated annealing is the classic physical optimization algorithm, which has been applied to a large variety of problems for many years. Over time, several adaptive mechanisms for decreasing the temperature and thus controlling the acceptance of deteriorations have been developed, based on the...