| Article ID: | iaor1988676 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Start Page Number: | 327 |
| End Page Number: | 332 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1988 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Kmpke Thomas |
| Keywords: | optimization: simulated annealing |
Simulated annealing (statistical cooling) is applied to bin packing problems. Different cooling strategies are compared empirically and for a particular 100 item problem a solution is given which is most likely the best known so far.