Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Simulated Annealing (SA) is the oldest probabilistic
meta-heuristic algorithm and one of the first algorithms
having ability to avoid being trapped in local minima. It
is inspired by the process of annealing in metallurgy. In
this process a material is heated and slowly cooled into
solid crystal state with minimum energy and larger
crystal size to reduce defects in metallic structures. Once
the system has cooled, the configuration will represent a
sample at or close to a global optimum.