**Meet the editor**

Dr 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 **Adaptive Neighborhood Heuristics** 

Chapter 2 **A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for** 

Chapter 3 **Optimization by Use of Nature** 

Masayuki Ohzeki

**Section 2 SA Applications 65** 

Chapter 4 **Bayesian Recovery of** 

**for Simulated Annealing over Continuous Variables 3** 

**the Satisfiability Problem Using Dynamic Markov Chains** 

**in Physics Beyond Classical Simulated Annealing 41** 

T.C. Martins, A.K. Sato and M.S.G. Tsuzuki

**with Linear Regression Equilibrium 21**  Felix Martinez-Rios and Juan Frausto-Solis

**Sinusoids with Simulated Annealing 67**  Dursun Üstündag and Mehmet Cevri

**of Image Processing in the Wood Area 91** 

**Approaches to Electric Power Systems 105** 

Cristhian A. Aguilera, Mario A. Ramos and Angel D. Sappa

Yann-Chang Huang, Huo-Ching Sun and Kun-Yuan Huang

Hisafumi Kokubugata, Yuji Shimazaki, Shuichi Matsumoto,

**for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows by Using Search History and Devising Means for Reducing the Number of Vehicles 129** 

Chapter 5 **Simulated Annealing: A Novel Application** 

Chapter 6 **Applications of Simulated Annealing-Based** 

Chapter 7 **Improvements in Simulated Quenching Method** 

Hironao Kawashima and Tatsuru Daimon

**Section 1 Advances in SA 1** 
