Statistical mechanics and disordered systems

  • Authors:
  • Scott Kirkpatrick;Robert H. Swendsen

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 174
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Since computers are able to simulate the equilibrium properties of model systems, they may also prove useful for solving the hard optimization problems that arise in the engineering of complex systems.