Simulation-based optimization using simulated annealing with ranking and selection

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-402

  Ahmed, Mohamed A ^a   Alkhamis, Talal M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Markov chains; Ranking and selection; Simulated annealing; Simulation; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 0036526014     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(00)00073-3     Document Type: Article

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