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Simulated Annealing

Simulated annealing is a probabilistic local-search metaheuristic introduced by Kirkpatrick, Gelatt, and Vecchi in 1983. It models the physical annealing process in metallurgy — where a material is heated and then slowly cooled to reach a low-energy crystalline state — and uses this analogy to escape local optima in combinatorial and continuous optimization problems.

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Simulated Annealing

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Kirkpatrick, S., Gelatt, C.D. & Vecchi, M.P. (1983). Optimization by Simulated Annealing. Science, 220(4598), 671-680. · DOI 10.1126/science.220.4598.671
van Laarhoven, P.J.M. & Aarts, E.H.L. (1987). Simulated Annealing: Theory and Applications. Springer. · ISBN 9789027725431

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