Title : 
Experiments with Simulated Annealing
         
        
            Author : 
Nahar, Surendra ; Sahni, Sartaj ; Shragowitz, Eugene
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
University of Minnesota
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The performance of simulated annealing is compared to that of other Monte Carlo methods for optimization. Our experiments show that these other methods often perform better than simulated annealing.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Monte Carlo method; Simulated annealing; heuristic; optimization; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Contracts; Counting circuits; Design automation; Design optimization; Electronic circuits; Scheduling; Simulated annealing; Temperature control; Monte Carlo method; Simulated annealing; heuristic; optimization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Design Automation, 1985. 22nd Conference on
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-8186-0635-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/DAC.1985.1586028