From: skip@taygeta.com (Skip Carter)
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.op-research,ucam.cl.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Simulated Annealing reference
Date: 25 Oct 96 14:47:50 GMT

In article <54i8ll$8u4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, pes20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Sewell) writes:
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|> I have a real-world optimisation problem, to find good (not necessarily the
|> least) minima of a complicated function of approx 3 -- 30 bounded 
|> real variables.
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|> Not having touched a real number in years, I'm looking for a good
|> pragmatic book or tutorial paper on simulated annealing, or more generally on
|> global optimisation.  
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|> Can anybody point me towards the one true reference? (I alreadly 
|> have the sci.op-research faq.)
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	Take a look at:

	http://www.taygeta.com/annealing/simanneal.html

	That page contains pointers to references, code, and contains
	an online demo.


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