| Article ID: | iaor20002556 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 389 |
| End Page Number: | 403 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1996 |
| Journal: | Communications in Statistics - Stochastic Models |
| Authors: | Lowe M. |
| Keywords: | optimization |
We introduce a stochastic version of the parallel local search algorithm. Using techniques similar to those used to establish convergence of the simulated annealing algorithm we are able to give a cooling schedule for which the process converges and to analyze the speed of convergence by spectral gap methods.