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Simulated annealing has proved to be an easy, reliable method for finding optimal values of a problem in cases where there is no road map to possible solutions. This book offers an introduction to thi
Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science. In numerous cases similar inversion-like techniques were d
