Simulated annealing : strategies, potential uses and advantages / Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki and Thiago de Castro Martins, editors.

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SIMULATED ANNEALING STRATEGIES, POTENTIAL USES AND ADVANTAGES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS; Chapter 1: SIMULATED ANNEALING:IN MATHEMATICAL GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION COMPUTATION, HYBRID WITH LOCALOR GLOBAL SEARCH, AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHYAND MOLECULAR MODELLING OF PRION AMYLOID FIBRILS; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. IMPLEMENTING THE SA ALGORITHM; 3. THE HYBRID OF SA WITH A LOCAL/GLOBAL SEARCH METHOD; 4. APPLYING SA TO MOLECULAR MODELING; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.

Chapter 2: HANDLING EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY LINEAR CONSTRAINTS IN SIMULATED ANNEALINGAbstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory and Methods ; 3. Numerical Examples; 4. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: AIRCRAFT DESIGN WITH SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR SAE AERODESIGN COMPETITION; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Aircraft Project Evaluation; 3. Representation Schemes; 4. Simulated Annealing; 5. Discussions and Results; 6. Best Model Construction and Test; 7. Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: SIMULATED ANNEALING APPLIED TO THE RESOLUTION OF PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION WITH MAXIMUM PARSIMONY; Abstract; 1. Introduction.

2. An Improved Implementation of a Simulated Annealing Algorithm3.Computational Experiments; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: IMPROVED PARALLEL SIMULATED ANNEALING APPLIED TO SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PARALLEL SIMULATED ANNEALING USING THE SIMPLEX METHOD; MATHEMATICAL EXAMPLE PROBLEM; 4. LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; 5. IMPULSIVE RENDEZVOUS OPTIMIZATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6: SIMULATED ANNEALING APPLICATIONS IN THERMODYNAMIC CALCULATIONS; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SIMULATED ANNEALING.

3. APPLICATIONS OF SIMULATED ANNEALING IN APPLIED THERMODYNAMIC CALCULATIONS4. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: SA OPTIMIZATION OF TWO-CHAMBER MUFFLERS EQUIPPED WITH MULTIPLE PARALLEL PERFORATED TUBES WITHIN A CONSTRAINED SPACE; ABSTRACT; NOMENCLATURE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; 3. MODEL CHECK; 4. CASE STUDIES; 5. SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD; 6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: A SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM TO SOLVE THE LOG-TRUCK SCHEDULING PROBLEM; ABSTRACT.

1. INTRODUCTION2. PROBLEM DESCRIPTION; 2. MATHEMATICAL MODEL; 3. SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM FOR THE TRUCK SCHEDULING PROBLEM; 4. COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 9: POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF SIMULATED ANNEALING TO MULTI-SPECIES FISH HABITAT CONSERVATION IN THE GULF OF MAINE; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT; GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT AND FISH FAUNA; SURVEY DATA; EFH DESIGN SCENARIOS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; INDEX.

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