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From: davidp@dbrmelb.dbrhi.oz (David Paterson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Simulated Annealing (QUERY)
Summary: New Scientist
Message-ID: <811@dbrmelb.dbrhi.oz>
Date: 7 May 90 01:00:33 GMT
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Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia
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> Please post a summary.  I am also interested in any references on
> simulated annealing.

I'm not working with simulated annealing but many of my colleagues are.
There are hundreds of books and articles on simulated annealing. For a simple,
readable introduction to this and other algorithms (such as genetic algorithms)
see:
      New Scientist, 14 April 1990, pp. 35-38
      "Natural solutions give their best"

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"a study of the mathematics of turbulence, which was my Ph.D. problem"
Isaac Asimov: Prelude to Foundation.