Applied Simulated Annealing

Rene V. V. Vidal

ISBN 10: 354056229X / ISBN 13: 9783540562290

Edité par Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1993, 1993

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 376 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Applied Simulated Annealing
• Éditeur: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1993
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 354056229X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783540562290
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 170 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 170 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 648 grammes

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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.