17. Supplementary Materials
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As a closer study of the references of this book shows, complex optimization and the structure and classification of complex energy landscapes remain active areas of research. Consequently, many resources such as software and additional references are available on the Internet. Interested readers will find in this chapter a commented list of resources. Additional material more directly related to the contents of this book can be found at http://www.frostconcepts.com/. Specific questions regarding errata and updates can be addressed to [email protected]. 17.1 Software 17.1.1 Simulated Annealing from the Web A simple search on a web search engine will result in numerous hits for “simulated annealing software”. For example, a search using www.google.com resulted in about 21,000 hits. On closer inspection, the reader will find that the vast majority of these hits are university projects implementing bare-bones annealing for single- or multiprocessor systems. Because bare-bones annealing is embarrassingly parallel, it is a common target for developers of parallel scientific software libraries. Of the university development efforts, Dyke Stiles and a dedicated group at Utah State University maintain solid implementations of single- and multiprocessor bare-bones simulated annealing software along with a variety of other optimization heuristics: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/research/rtpc/projects/comb/. Lester Ingber has long been a source for robust simulated annealing software and reference materials—most notably “Fast SA” and “Adaptive Simulated Annealing.” His web site is http ://www.ingber.com/.