**3.2. Initial temperature**

The control of the 'temperature' parameter must be carefully defined since it controls the acceptance rule defined by the Boltzmann distribution. *T* has to be large enough to enable the algorithm to move off a local minimum but small enough not to move off a global minimum. According to Chibante et al. [18], the value of *T* should be defined in an application based approach (*ad-hoc*) since it is related with the magnitude of the objective function value.
