Del Moral, P.; Miclo, L. On the convergence and applications of generalized simulated annealing. (English) Zbl 0928.60046 SIAM J. Control Optimization 37, No. 4, 1222-1250 (1999). The authors study time-inhomogeneous Markov processes. The presentation is given in a form applicable to general optimization problems. The main tools are log-Sobolev inequalities, entropy, and the virtual energy associated with communication cost function. Reviewer: P.Krapivsky (Boston) Cited in 17 Documents MSC: 60J05 Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces 92D15 Problems related to evolution Keywords:simulated annealing; genetic algorithms; stochastic optimization PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. Del Moral} and \textit{L. Miclo}, SIAM J. Control Optim. 37, No. 4, 1222--1250 (1999; Zbl 0928.60046) Full Text: DOI