Applied Simulated Annealing: 396 (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 396) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 354056229X ISBN 13: 9783540562290

Publisher: Springer, 1993

Synopsis

In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza­ tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den­ mark, 1992, p. 92). This dissertation presents retrospectively my central contributions to the theoretical and applied aspects of optimization. When I had finished my thesis I became interested in editing a volume related to a new expanding area of applied optimization. I considered several approaches: simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, neural networks, heuristics, expert systems, generalized multipliers, etc. Finally, I decided to edit a volume related to simulated annealing. My main three reasons for this choice were the following: (i) During the last four years my colleagues at IMSOR and I have car­ ried out several applied projects where simulated annealing was an essential. element in the problem-solving process. Most of the avail­ able reports and papers have been written in Danish. After a short review I was convinced that most of these works deserved to be pub­ lished for a wider audience. (ii) After the first reported applications of simulated annealing (1983- 1985), a tremendous amount of theoretical and applied work have been published within many different disciplines. Thus, I believe that simulated annealing is an approach that deserves to be in the curricula of, e.g. Engineering, Physics, Operations Research, Math­ ematical Programming, Economics, System Sciences, etc. (iii) A contact to an international network of well-known researchers showed that several individuals were willing to contribute to such a volume.

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Synopsis

This volume contains 16 papers dealing with the methodological and applied aspects of the simulated annealing approach when applied to solve combinatorial optimization problems. More specifically the contents are: The first four papers suggest, test and compare different design strategies for the algorithm. The next 5 papers are dealing with different real-life versions of location problems and the last four papers present a miscellaneous of application areas: clustering, partitioning, image processing and design problems. This collection of papers gives a good picture of the state-of-the-art of the applied aspects of simulated annealing. In addition, this volume also contains an introduction chapter (with an up-to-date list of references0 and a last chapter with the final remarks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 354056229X
• ISBN 13: 9783540562290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Vidal Rene V.V.