The Simulated Annealing algorithm is inspired by the physical process of annealing in metallurgy. It is a probabilistic technique for approximating the global optimum of a given function. Specifically ...

It is useful in finding global optima in the presence of large numbers of local optima. “Annealing” refers to an analogy with thermodynamics, specifically with the way that metals cool and anneal.

The process of physical annealing is a heat treatment used in material science and metallurgy where a material is heated to the melting point before it is slowly cooled down until it solidifies. As ...

A relationship between grain size, holding time, and annealing temperature was established ... Using a semi-continuous casting method, pure Al, Mg, and Mn metals (purities >99.9 %) and Al-50Cu ...