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- From: naylor@research.canon.oz.au (William Naylor)
- Subject: simulated annealing question
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:45:39 GMT
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- I am trying to minimize a real-valued function of about 50-500 real-valued
- variables. My function seems to have an exponential number of local minima,
- so I have been trying to adapt SIMULATED ANNEALING to work on functions of
- continuous variables. Classically, simulated annealing [1] is designed to
- work on discrete functions, with discrete domains.
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- Has anybody out there successfully used simulated annealing
- on continuous functions with continuous domains? I would appreciate
- any advice, especially with references.
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- REFERENCES
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- [1] Kirkpatrick S., Gelatt C. D., and Vecchi M. P.: "Optimization by
- Simulated Annealing", Science 1983, #220, pages 671-680.
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