Simulated Annealing and Boltzmann Machines

Wiley-InterscienceSeriesinDiscreteMathematicsandOptimizationAdvisoryEditorsRonaldL.GrahamJanKarelLenstraRobertE.TarjanDiscreteMathematicsandOptimizationinvolvesthestudyoffinitestructures.Itisoneofthefastestgrowingareasinmathematicstoday.Thelevelanddepthofrecentadvancesintheareaandthewideapplicabilityofitsevolvingtechniquespointtotherapiditywithwhichthefieldismovingfromitsbeginningstomaturityandpresagetheever-increasinginteractionbetweenitandcomputerscience.TheSeriesprovidesabroadcoverageofdiscretemathematicsandoptimization,rangingoversuchfieldsascombinatorics,graphtheory,enumeration,mathematicalprogrammingandtheanalysisofalgorithms,andincludingsuchtopicsasRamseytheory,transversaltheory,blockdesigns,finitegeometries,Polyatheory,graphandmatroidalgorithms,networkflows,polyhedralcombinatoricsandcomputationalcomplexity.TheWiley-InterscienceSeriesinDiscreteMathematicsandOptimizationwillbeasubstantialpartoftherecordofthisextraordinarydevelopment.RecenttitlesintheSeries:SearchProblemsRudolfAhlswede,UniversityofBielefeld,FederalRepublicofGermanyIngoWegener,JohannWolfgangGoetheUniversity,Frankfurt,FederalRepublicofGermanyTheproblemsofsearch,exploration,discoveryandidentificationareofkeyimportanceinawidevarietyofapplications.Thisbookwillbeofgreatinteresttoallthoseconcernedwithsearching,sorting,informationprocessing,designofexperimentsandoptimalallocationofresources.1987IntroductiontoOptimizationE.M.L.BealeFRS,SciconLtd,MiltonKeynes,andImperialCollege,LondonThisbookisintendedasanintroductiontothemanytopicscoveredbytheterm'optimization',withspecialemphasisonapplicationsinindustry.Itisdividedintothreeparts.Thefirstpartcoversunconstrainedoptimization,theseconddescribesthemethodsusedtosolvelinearprogrammingproblems,andthethirdcoversnonlinearprogramming,integerprogramminganddynamicprogramming.Thebookisintendedforseniorundergraduateandgraduatestudentsstudyingoptimizationaspartofacourseinmathematics,computerscienceorengineering.1988