**Meet the editor**

Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1963. He received his electrical engineer degree in 1985 from the Engineering School from University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and a Master's degree in engineering in 1989 from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Engineering School of University of

São Paulo. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechatronics and Mechanical Systems Engineering, University of São Paulo since 2000, where he teaches courses on CAD/CAM, computer graphics, image processing and medical imaging. His current research areas include solid modeling, geometric modeling, optimization problems, simulated annealing, bioengineering and biomedical inverse problems.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Mean Field Annealing Based Techniques** 

Chapter 3 **Simulated Quenching Algorithm** 

Luis M. San-José-Revuelta

Chapter 5 **Optimization Design of Nonlinear** 

Yan Zhang

**for Resolving VLSI Automatic Design Problems 3** 

**Application of a Double Simulated Annealing Process 23** 

Gholam Reza Karimi and Ahmad Azizi Verki

Laurence Miègeville and Patrick Guérin

Ivan Zelinka and Lenka Skanderova

Chapter 2 **Optimal Sizing of Harmonic Filters in Electrical Systems:** 

**for Frequency Planning in Cellular Systems 47** 

Chapter 4 **Simulated Annealing in Research and Applications 69** 

**Optical Frequency Conversion Devices Using Simulated Annealing Algorithm 93** 

Chapter 6 **Simulated Annealing and Multiuser Scheduling in Mobile Communication Networks 113**  Raymond Kwan, M. E. Aydin and Cyril Leung

> **of Non-Linear Multi-Antennas Coupling 131**  Igor Arambasic, Javier Casajus Quiros and Ivana Raos

Chapter 8 **Application of Simulated Annealing in Water Resources Management: Optimal Solution of Groundwater Contamination Source Characterization Problem and** 

**Monitoring Network Design Problems 157** 

Chapter 7 **Simulated Quenching for Cancellation** 

Manish Jha and Bithin Datta

**Section 1 Single Objective 1** 
