SIMULATED ANNEALING WHAT IS SIMULATED ANNEALING • Annealing is a process of slow cooling. • It was proposed by Metropolis et al. [63]. • A molten metal of high energy state is converted into its minimum energy state, that is, solid state. • Nature of crystal depends on the cooling rate of molten metal. STEPS OF SIMULATED ANNEALING Let us assume that a minimization problem involving m design variables: x1,x2,...,xm (denoted by X) is to be solved using the SA. The problem may be stated as follows: subject to STEPS INCLUDING SIMULATED ANNEALING If Else STEPS INCLUDING SIMULATED ANNEALING NOTE: -It is important to mention that the concept of Boltzmann probability distributions has been used in this algorithm in order to implement that the probability of selecting bad solutions may be more at high temperature but it has to be less at low temperature A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE subject to A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE THANK YOU