Azencott, Robert Sequential simulated annealing: Speed of convergence and acceleration techniques. (English) Zbl 0787.90071 Simulated annealing. Parallelization techniques, 1-10 (1992). [For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00020.]This chapter is a short introduction to sequential simulated annealing. The author describes the standard setup, the speed of convergence, practical cooling schedules, acceleration by monotone concave distortions of the energy function and exponential acceleration by optimal multiple search. 20 references are given. Reviewer: G.Schulz (Magdeburg) Cited in 4 Documents MSC: 90C27 Combinatorial optimization 90-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming Keywords:sequential simulated annealing; speed of convergence Citations:Zbl 0746.00020 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. Azencott}, in: Simulated annealing. Parallelization techniques. Chichester: John Wiley \&| Sons Ltd.. 1--10 (1992; Zbl 0787.90071)