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Simulated annealing, based on the statistical mechanical annealing of solids, is a probabilistic method for generating and assessing trial points in the search space. The method is well known and has been used to find the minimum of any function. By defining an energy function for a known simulated annealing method, a probabilistic globally convergent search procedure for solving inequalities is obtained. The method is tested on some numerical test problems and some control design problems. It is found that the method has a high rate of success in finding solutions.
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Whidborne, J.F. (2005). A Simulated Annealing Inequalities Solver. In: Zakian, V. (eds) Control Systems Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-215-2_7
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