Notes for the lectures I give in Nature Inspired Optimisation

• An introduction to simulated annealing.
  

  References:

  1. X. Yao, ``Simulated annealing with extended neighbourhood,'' International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 40:169-189, 1991.
     Available as a compressed ps file.
  2. X. Yao (1993d), ``Comparison of different neighbourhood size in simulated annealing,'' In Proc. of the Fourth Australian Conf. on Neural Networks (ACNN'93), ed. P. Leong and M. Jabri, Melbourne, pp.216-219.
     (Available as acnn93.ps.Z).