Abstract
We present an extension of continuous domain Simulated Annealing. Our algorithm employs a globally reaching candidate generator, adaptive stochastic acceptance probabilities, and converges in probability to the optimal value. An application to simulation-optimization problems with asymptotically diminishing errors is presented. Numerical results on a noisy protein-folding problem are included.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 285-290 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Operations Research Letters |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Noisy objective functions
- Simulated annealing