Preface

This book presents state of the art contributes to Simulated Annealing (SA) that is a well-known probabilistic meta-heuristic. It is used to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. The significant advantage of SA over other solution methods has made it a practical solution method for solving complex optimization problems.

This book contains 13 chapters, classified in single and multiple objectives applications. More specifically, the single objective applications are in the field of VLSI design, multi antenna coupling, scheduling in mobile communication, fast motion estimation, optical frequency conversion design, ground water contamination source identification, frequency planning in cellular systems, catastrophic events and bifurcations, and harmonic filter optimal sizing. The multiple objectives applications are in the field of analog circuit design, rotor bearing systems problem identification, functionally graded dental implant and integrated circuit layout design.

This book provides the reader with the knowledge of SA and several applications. We encourage readers to explore SA in their work, mainly because it is simple and can determine extremely very good results.

> **Dr. Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki** University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

**Section 1** 

**Single Objective** 

**Section 1** 
