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Optimization by Simulated Annealing

Scott Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, M.P. Vecchi · Science · 1983 · 44.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Algorithms +10

Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity.

David Johnson, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz · American Mathematical Monthly · 1984 · 6.1K citations

Natural Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics +16

An Efficient Heuristic Procedure for Partitioning Graphs

Brian W. Kernighan, Shang Min Lin · Bell System Technical Journal · 1970 · 5.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering +17

An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem

Simon Lin, Brian W. Kernighan · Operations Research · 1973 · 3.8K citations

Natural Sciences, Decision Sciences, Algorithms +10

Combinatorial optimization:Algorithms and complexity

L. R. Rabiner · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · 1984 · 3.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +12