dan wrote
> Anyone have any experience on simulated annealing as far as how to deal
> with different scales for each of the variables, and how to adjust the
> temperature as the iterations proceed? Any reference books or websites?
>
My first choice on numerical topics is Numerical Recipes by William Press et.al.
In my fortran 77 2nd ed copy (1992) their chap. 10, sec 9 "simulated annealing
methods" pp 436-448 gives a practical survey with a set of references. note their index puts this method under "minimization" rather than "optimization".
Ted