Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning Export

@article{Johnson89, abstract = {In this and two companion papers, we report on an extended empirical study of the simulated annealing approach to combinatorial optimization proposed by S. Kirkpatrick et al. That study investigated how best to adapt simulated annealing to particular problems and compared its performance to that of more traditional algorithms. This paper (Part I) discusses annealing and our parameterized generic implementation of it, describes how we adapted this generic algorithm to the graph partitioning problem, and reports how well it compared to standard algorithms like the Kernighan-Lin algorithm. (For sparse random graphs, it tended to outperform Kernighan-Lin as the number of vertices become large, even when its much greater running time was taken into account. It did not perform nearly so well, however, on graphs generated with a built-in geometric structure.) We also discuss how we went about optimizing our implementation, and describe the effects of changing the various annealing parameters or varying the basic annealing algorithm itself. 10.1287/opre.37.6.865}, author = {Johnson, David S. and Aragon, Cecilia R. and McGeoch, Lyle A. and Schevon, Catherine}, citeulike-article-id = {5900710}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.37.6.865}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://or.journal.informs.org/content/37/6/865.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://or.journal.informs.org/content/37/6/865.full.pdf}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1287/opre.37.6.865}, journal = {OPERATIONS RESEARCH}, keywords = {heuristic, simulated\_annealing}, month = {November}, number = {6}, pages = {865--892}, posted-at = {2009-10-06 20:02:57}, priority = {1}, title = {Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.37.6.865}, volume = {37}, year = {1989} }

TY - JOUR ID - Johnson89 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5900710 N2 - In this and two companion papers, we report on an extended empirical study of the simulated annealing approach to combinatorial optimization proposed by S. Kirkpatrick et al. That study investigated how best to adapt simulated annealing to particular problems and compared its performance to that of more traditional algorithms. This paper (Part I) discusses annealing and our parameterized generic implementation of it, describes how we adapted this generic algorithm to the graph partitioning problem, and reports how well it compared to standard algorithms like the Kernighan-Lin algorithm. (For sparse random graphs, it tended to outperform Kernighan-Lin as the number of vertices become large, even when its much greater running time was taken into account. It did not perform nearly so well, however, on graphs generated with a built-in geometric structure.) We also discuss how we went about optimizing our implementation, and describe the effects of changing the various annealing parameters or varying the basic annealing algorithm itself. 10.1287/opre.37.6.865 IS - 6 JF - OPERATIONS RESEARCH EP - 892 TI - Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning VL - 37 SP - 865 KW - heuristic KW - simulated_annealing AU - Johnson, David AU - Aragon, Cecilia AU - McGeoch, Lyle AU - Schevon, Catherine PY - 1989/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.37.6.865 ER -