neuroprose paper: Function Optimization based on Advanced Simulated Annealing

[Bruce Rosen]

A postscript version of my short paper "Function Optimization based on 
Advanced Simulated Annealing" has been placed in the neuroprose 
archive.  The abstract is given below, followed by retrieval 
instructions.


Bruce Rosen
email: rosen at ringer.cs.utsa.edu
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		Function Optimization based on Advanced Simulated Annealing


                                     Bruce Rosen


              Division of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
          The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78249
                                      Abstract

             Solutions to numerical problems often involve finding  (or  fit-
        ting)  a set of parameters to optimize a function.  A novel extension
        of the Simulated Annealing method, Very  Fast  Simulated  Reannealing
        (VFSR)  [1, 2], has been proposed for optimizing difficult functions.
        VFSR has an exponentially decreasing temperature  reduction  schedule
        which  is  faster  than  both  Boltzmann  Annealing and Fast (Cauchy)
        Annealing.  VFSR is shown to be is superior to these two  methods  on
        optimizing a difficult multimodal function.


        1.   L. Ingber, "Very Fast Simulated  re-annealing,"  Mathl.  Comput.
             Modeling, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 967-973, 1989.

        2.   L. Ingber and B. E. Rosen, "Genetic  Algorithms  and  Very  Fast
             Simulated  Reannealing: A Comparison," Mathematical and Computer
             Modelling, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 87-100, 1992.

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The paper is rosen.advsim.ps.Z in the neuroprose archives.
The INDEX sentence is
"Preprint: Comparative performances of Advanced Simulated Annealing
Methods on optimizing a nowhere-differentiable function"

To retrieve this file from the neuroprose archives:

unix> ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu
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Password: (use your email address)
ftp> cd pub/neuroprose
ftp> get rosen.advsim.ps.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for rosen.advsim.ps.Z
..
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
unix> uncompress rosen.advsim.ps.Z
unix> lpr rosen.advsim.ps