Received on:2/6/2009 Accepted on:1/4/2010 Abstract Simulated annealing (SA) has been considered as a good tool for search and optimization problems which represent the abstraction of obtaining the crystalline structure through a physical process. This algorithm works sequentially that the current state will produce only one next state. That will make the search to be slower and the important dr...

This paper addresses the single machine early/ tardy problem with unrestricted common due date and sequence-dependent setup times. Two algorithms are introduced to reach near-optimum solutions: the SAPT, a heuristic tailored for the problem, and a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm. It will be shown that SA provides solutions with slightly better quality; however, SAPT requires much less comput...

The problem of scheduling in a Flow Shop with Multiple Processors (FSMP) is considered with the objective of minimizing the makespan for static problems. Herein, the usefulness of simulated annealing (SA) is investigated. Two stages are used in generating the makespans. A good initial-heuristic-seed sequence, obtained in the first stage, is improved-upon in the second stage by the SA technique....

This paper presents a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm for the construction of ternary covering arrays (CAs) using a trinomial coefficient representation. A ternary CA, denoted by CA(t, k, 3), is an N × k array where each N × t subarray contains each of the 3 combinations of symbols at least once. The construction of optimal CAs is, in general, an NP-complete problem. Many reported SA impleme...

The objective of this study is to develop a tabu search (TS) procedure for the Extended Maximal Availability Location Problem (EMALP) and compare the results obtained with this procedure against those obtained with the Simulated Annealing (SA) procedure developed by Galvão et al. (2005) for the same problem. It is shown that in terms of quality the solutions SA outperforms TS for the smaller ne...

In this study, for the loads supplied by three thermic plants, power of thermic plants, supplying the minimum values of the cost of energy used for an hour, have been found with Simulated Annealing (SA) which is a metaheuristic optimasition method. Firstly solution have been found with classical Lagrange Method. Later solution have also been found with SA algorithm. Solutions found with two dif...

In this paper a Simulated Annealing algorithm (SA) for solving the Protein Folding Problem (PFP) is presented. This algorithm has two phases: quenching and annealing. The first phase is applied at very high temperatures and the annealing phase is applied at high and low temperatures. The temperature during the quenching phase is decreased by an exponential function. We run through an efficient ...

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the well-known combinatorial optimization problems and is known for its various applications. In this paper, we propose a modified simulated annealing algorithm for the QAP – M-SA-QAP. The novelty of the proposed algorithm is an advanced formula of calculation of the initial and final temperatures, as well as an original cooling schedule with osc...

In this paper, a novel adaptive fuzzy robust controller with a state observer approach based on the hybrid particle swarm optimization-simulated annealing (PSO-SA) technique for a class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with disturbances is proposed. Firstly, particle swarm optimization-simulated annealing (PSO-SA) is used to adjust the fuzzy membership functions, while adapt...

Single row layout is one of the most usually used layout patterns in industries, particularly in flexible manufacturing systems. Here actual sequencing of machine and arrangement of parts, no doubt, have a great influence on the throughput of the flexible manufacturing system i.e., (F.M.S). This paper discusses the single row layout design in flexible manufacturing system (F.M.S). This paper fu...