Fast technique for unit commitment by absolute stochastic simulated annealing

This paper presents a new approach for unit commitment problem using stochastic simulated annealing method. In every iteration, a solution is taken with a certain probability. Typically in simulated annealing method, a better solution is accepted deterministically, but other solutions are accepted with temperature dependent probability. That may lead to the local optimization. But in this paper, all the solutions, both better and worse, are associated with acceptance probabilities.