TY - CHAP AU - Manish Jha AU - Bithin Datta ED - Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki Y1 - 2012-10-17 PY - 2012 T1 - Application of Simulated Annealing in Water Resources Management: Optimal Solution of Groundwater Contamination Source Characterization Problem and Monitoring Network Design Problems N2 - 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. Book is consisted of 13 chapters, classified in single and multiple objectives applications and it 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. BT - Simulated Annealing SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/45871 DO - 10.5772/45871 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -