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From: andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: simmulated annealing
Summary: real-world
Keywords: annealing ai scheduling applications
Message-ID: <404@blenheim.nsc.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 13:41:57 GMT
References: <558@granite3.UUCP>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <558@granite3.UUCP>, ahlenius@cell.mot.COM (Mark Ahlenius) writes:
> I am interested in real world applications for simulated
> annealing.  And was wondering if anyone has been using this
> technique in the "AI field".  If so what type of applications
> has it been used for.

It's being used in quite mundane ways - not what you might expect (i.e.
dazzling neural paradigms and the like).

For example, in many VLSI CAD packages, the place/route function is often
implemented thusly.
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