Robini, Marc; Reissman, Pierre-Jean - In: Journal of Global Optimization 56 (2013) 1, pp. 185-215
Simulated annealing (SA) is a generic optimization method that is quite popular because of its ease of implementation and its global convergence properties. However, SA is widely reported to converge very slowly, and it is common practice to allow extra freedom in its design at the expense of...