A controlled search simulated annealing method for the single machine weighted tardiness problem

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Thermodynamical approach to the traveling salesman problem: An efficient simulation algorithm

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Simulated annealing: theory and applications.

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation · 1988 · 3K citations · Full text

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