• DocumentCode
    2998301
  • Title

    Two simulated annealing algorithms for noisy objective functions

  • Author

    Prudius, Andrei A. ; Andradóttir, Sigrún

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-7 Dec. 2005
  • Abstract
    We present two new variants of the simulated annealing algorithm (with a decreasing cooling schedule) that are designed for solving discrete simulation optimization problems. We also provide conditions under which our methods converge almost surely to the set of global optimal solutions, discuss the implications of our results for both transient and steady-state simulations, and provide some numerical results.
  • Keywords
    simulated annealing; simulation; discrete simulation optimization; global optimal solution; noisy objective function; simulated annealing; steady-state simulation; transient simulation; Algorithm design and analysis; Cooling; Design optimization; Job shop scheduling; Modeling; Scheduling algorithm; Simulated annealing; State estimation; Stochastic processes; Systems engineering and theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference, 2005 Proceedings of the Winter
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9519-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.2005.1574324
  • Filename
    1574324