On lumped models for thermodynamic properties of simulated annealing problems
Bjarne Andresen, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Klaus Mosegaard, Jim Nulton, Jacob Mørch Pedersen, Peter B. Salamon · Journal de physique · 1988
The paper describes a new method for the estimation of thermodynamic properties for simulated annealing problems using data obtained during a simulated annealing run. The method works by estimating energy-to-energy transition probabilities and is well adapted to simulations such as simulated annealing, in which the system is never in equilibrium.