Simulated annealing: a fast heuristic for some generic layout problems
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چکیده
There are two major criticisms about simulated annealing as a general method for solving combinatorial optimization problems: its effectiveness when compared with other welldesigned heuristics and its excessive computation time. In this paper, we show that simulated annealing, with properly des~gned annealing schedule and move generation strategy, achieves significant speerlups for high quality solutions when compared with tailored heuristics on two well-studied problems: the traveling salesman problem and the graph partition problem. Efficient heuristics for the traveling salesman problem can be applied t o power and ground routing and, for the graph partition problem, to min-cut placement and logic partitioning.
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