study the optimization problems of MPM. The average time spent for all the tasks by an individual is calculated in each …

also discuss an analysis of the highway network in Germany to identify bottlenecks and possible optimization strategies. …

By mapping the optimization problems to physical systems, the paper presents a general-purpose stochastic optimization …. As self-organized critical processes of extremal dynamics, the optimization dynamics successively updates the states of … those cities with high energy. Consequently, a near-optimal solution can be quickly obtained through the optimization …

a simulation, on the basis of performing optimization to search for the optimum model parameter. The new option and an … and the power of optimization, three case studies presented in this paper all indicate that the new optimization procedure … can indeed improve such a simulation over the existing procedure. Moreover, with a proper tool such as Excel Solver …

Simulated annealing is the classic physical optimization algorithm, which has been applied to a large variety of …

Hysteretic optimization is a recently proposed heuristic optimization method inspired by the demagnetization of …

We propose a kind of Bak–Sneppen dynamics as a general optimization technique to treat magnetic systems. The resulting … method of the extremal optimization (EO) is also analyzed here. We provided a numerical confirmation that, for any possible …

. The simulation results of some standard traveling salesman problems in TSPLIB95 are presented. It is shown that our …