Deterministic Simulated Annealing — Annealing-schedule optimization without stochastic acceptance

Deterministic Simulated Annealing (DSA) is an optimization metaheuristic that adopts the cooling-schedule structure of classical simulated annealing but replaces the probabilistic Metropolis acceptance criterion with a strictly deterministic rule: only improving moves are accepted. This yields a reproducible, greedy-descent procedure guided by an annealing temperature schedule.