Tsallis, Constantino; Stariolo, Daniel A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 233 (1996) 1, pp. 395-406
We discuss and illustrate a new stochastic algorithm (generalized simulated annealing) for computationally finding the global minimum of a given (not necessarily convex) energy/cost function defined in a continuous D-dimensional space. This algorithm recovers, as particular cases, the so-called...