Simulated annealing: An introduction

Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness

1979 • 45,565 citations

Optimization by Simulated Annealing

1983 • 42,775 citations

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

1953 • 34,935 citations

Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images

1984 • 17,865 citations

An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem

1973 • 3,730 citations

Combinatorial optimization:Algorithms and complexity

1984 • 3,523 citations

Combinatorial optimization: networks and matroids

2021 • 3,410 citations

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

1985 • 3,296 citations

Non-negative Matrices and Markov Chains

1981 • 2,877 citations

Simulated Annealing: Theory and Applications

1987 • 2,182 citations

Computer Solutions of the Traveling Salesman Problem

1965 • 1,952 citations

Optimization by simulated annealing: Quantitative studies

1984 • 1,762 citations

An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications.

1951 • 1,422 citations

Cooling Schedules for Optimal Annealing

1988 • 1,225 citations

Convergence of an annealing algorithm

1986 • 699 citations

Using tabu search techniques for graph coloring

1987 • 640 citations

Statistical cooling : a general approach to combinatorial optimization problems

1985 • 367 citations

Convergence and finite-time behavior of simulated annealing

1986 • 366 citations

A thermodynamically motivated simulation procedure for combinatorial optimization problems

1984 • 342 citations

The N-City Travelling Salesman Problem: Statistical Mechanics and the Metropolis Algorithm

1984 • 256 citations

Using simulated annealing to solve routing and location problems

1986 • 205 citations

Simulated annealing methods with general acceptance probabilities

1987 • 149 citations

Parallel implementations of the statistical cooling algorithm

1986 • 111 citations

Analysis of simulated annealing for optimization

1985 • 67 citations

Interactive decision software and computer graphics for architectural and space planning

1986 • 58 citations

Boltzmann machines and their applications

1987 • 55 citations

Interactive decision software and computer graphics for architectural and space planning

1985 • 47 citations

The asymptotic behaviour of quadratic sum assignment problems: A statistical mechanics approach

1986 • 32 citations

Simulated annealing algorithm for the minimum weighted perfect euclidean matching problem

1986 • 19 citations