GenAnneal: Genetically modified Simulated Annealing

A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report results of computational experiments with a set of test functions and we compare to methods of similar structure. The accompanying software accepts objective functions coded both in Fortran 77 and C++. Program summary Title of program: GenAnneal Catalogue identifier: ADXI_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/ADXI_v1_0 Program available from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland Computer for which the program is designed and others on which it has been tested: The tool is designed to be portable in all systems running the GNU C++ compiler Installation: University of Ioannina, Greece on Linux based machines Programming language used: GNU-C++, GNU-C, GNU Fortran 77 Memory required to execute with typical data: 200 KB No. of bits in a word: 32 No. of processors us...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CPHYSICS
• Authors: Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Isaac E. Lagaris
• Keywords: CPHYSICS 2006, Fortran 77, Objective Function, Program Summary