ANDYMARK: An Analytical Method to Establish Dynamically the Length of the Markov Chain in Simulated Annealing for the Satisfiability Problem

摘要

Because the efficiency and efficacy in Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithms is determined by their cooling scheme, several methods to set it have been proposed. In this paper an analytical method (ANDYMARK) to tune the parameters of the cooling scheme in SA for the Satisfiability (SAT) problem is presented. This method is based on a relation between the Markov chains length and the cooling scheme. We compared ANDYMARK versus a classical SA algorithm that uses the same constant Markov chain. Experimentation with SAT instances shows that SA using this method obtains similar quality solutions with less effort than the classical one.