Simulated Annealing
Advances, Applications and Hybridizations

Contributor(s)
de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki, Marcos (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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 to a state of minimum energy. We encourage readers to explore SA in their work, mainly because it is simple and because it can yield very good results.
Keywords
Dynamics & staticsDOI
10.5772/3326Webshop link
https://www.intechopen.com/booksISBN
9789535107101, 9789535157052Publisher
IntechOpenPublisher website
https://www.intechopen.com/Publication date and place
2012Imprint
IntechOpenClassification
Fluid mechanics
Physics: Fluid mechanics