William M. Spears: Selected Publications about Simulated Annealing

Journal Articles

Spears, William M. (1996). Simulated Annealing for Hard Satisfiability Problems. In Cliques, Coloring, and Satisfiability: Second DIMACS Implementation Challenge, David S. Johnson and Michael A. Trick (eds.), DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 26, American Mathematical Society, 533-558.
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Spears, William M. (1990). Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms as Heuristics for NP-Complete Problems. Masters Thesis, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
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Spears, William M. (1996). A NN Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability Problems. Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Neural Networks, 1121-1126.
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1990). Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms as Heuristics for NP-Complete Problems. In Proceedings of the Int'l Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 118-121.
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De Jong, Kenneth A. and William M. Spears (1989). Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve NP-Complete Problems. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Genetic Algorithms, 124-132.
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Spears, William M. (1993). A NN Algorithm for Hard Satisfiability Problems (Technical Report AIC-93-014). Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research on Artificial Intelligence.
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Spears, William M. (1993). Simulated Annealing for Hard Satisfiability Problems (Technical Report AIC-93-015). Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research on Artificial Intelligence.
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Spears, William M. (1992). Probabilistic Satisfiability (Technical Report AIC-92-026). Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research on Artificial Intelligence.
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