ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] In the following I refer to the function being minimized, /=/(*!,..., xd)9 as the cost function. In the travelling-salesman problem, this is related to the economic cost of the journey. The simulated-annealing approach identifies the cost function with the energy of a statistical mechanical system ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/361708a0
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