Simulating antennas, however, is much harder. [Rosrislav] has been experimenting with using simulated annealing to iterate antenna designs, and he shares his progress in a recent blog post.

D-Wave's quantum annealing processor, however, is only reflective of one particular branch of quantum computing: based on a system that is capable of optimizing itself to reach the lowest energy ...

This is the second in a series of three papers that empirically examine the competitiveness of simulated annealing in certain well-studied domains of combinatorial optimization. Simulated annealing is ...

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC; the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm) has been used for many statistical problems, including Bayesian inference, likelihood inference, and tests of significance. Though ...