Adaptive search with stochastic acceptance probabilities for global optimization

نویسندگان

  • Archis Ghate
  • Robert L. Smith
چکیده

We present an extension of continuous domain Simulated Annealing. Our algorithm employs a globally reaching candidate generator, adaptive stochastic acceptance probabilities, and converges in probability to the optimal value. An application to simulation-optimization problems with asymptotically diminishing errors is presented. Numerical results on a noisy protein-folding problem are included.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Oper. Res. Lett.

دوره 36  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008