in today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. in addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

Comparative study of optimization methods for estimation sea surface temperature and ocean wind with microwave radiometer data is conducted. The well known mesh method (Grid Search Method: GSM), regressive method, and simulated annealing method are compared. Surface emissivity is estimated with the simulated annealing and compared to the well known Thomas T. Wilheit model based emissivity. On t...

Bus network design is an important problem in public transportation. A main step to this design is determining the number of required terminals and their locations. This is a special type of facility location problem, which is a time-consuming, large scale, combinatorial problem. In a previous attempt by the authors, this problem had been solved by GAMS, based on a branch and bound algorithm.&...

We applied simulated annealing algorithm to nurse scheduling problem. For time complexity problem of simulated annealing, we suggested an efficient transition rule using cost matrix for simulated annealing. The experimental results showed that the suggested method generated a nurse scheduling faster in time and better in quality compared to traditional simulated annealing.

mutual information (mi) is a widely used similarity metric for multimodality image registration. however, it involves an extremely high computational time especially when it is applied to volume images. moreover, its robustness is affected by existence of local maxima. the multi-resolution pyramid approaches have been proposed to speed up the registration process and increase the accuracy of th...

As multiobjective optimization problems have many solutions, evolutionary algorithms have been widely used for complex multiobjective problems instead of simulated annealing. However, simulated annealing also has favorable characteristics in the multimodal search. We developed several simulated annealing schemes for the multiobjective optimization based on this fact. Simulated annealing and evo...

2014 The paper describes a new method for the estimation of thermodynamic properties for simulated annealing problems using data obtained during a simulated annealing run. The method works by estimating energy-to-energy transition probabilities and is well adapted to simulations such as simulated annealing, in which the system is never in equilibrium. J. Phys. France 49 (1988) 1485-1492 SEPTEMB...