A direct search variant of the simulated annealing algorithm for optimization involving continuous variables

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-102

  Ali, M M ^a   Torn A ^b   Viitanen, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Continuous variable and centroid; Global optimization; Simulated annealing; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DIRECT SEARCH VARIANT;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ALGORITHM;

EID: 0036028039     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(00)00064-2     Document Type: Article

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