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Adaption of Simulated Annealing to Chemical Optimization Problems
About this book
Optimization problems occurring regularly in chemistry, vary from selecting the best wavelength design for optimal spectroscopic concentration predictions to geometry optimization of atomic clusters and protein folding. Numerous optimization tactics have been explored to solve these problems. While most optimizers maintain the ability to locate global optima for simple problems, few are robust against local optima convergence with regard to difficult or large scale optimization problems. Simulated annealing (SA) has shown a great tolerance to local optima convergence and is often called a global optimizer. The optimizaton algorithm has found wide use in numerous areas such as engineering, computer science, communication, image recognition, operation research, physics, and biology. Recently, SA and variations thereof have shown considerable success in solving numerous chemical optimization problems. The main thrust of this book is to demonstrate the use of SA in a wide range of chemical problems.The potentiality of SA, GSA and other modifications of SA to serve specific needs in a variety of chemical disciplines are covered. A detailed discussion on SA and GSA is given in Chapter 1, presenting the theoretical framework from which a computer program can be written by the reader. The remainder of the book describes applications of SA type algorithms to a diverse set of chemical problems. The final chapter contains an algorithm for GSA written in the MatLab programming environment. This program can be easily adapted to any optimization problem and with only slight modifications, can be altered to perform SA. A general flowchart is also given.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Adaption of simulated annealing to chemical optimization problems
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Simulated annealing and generalizations
- Chapter 2. Comparison of algorithms for wavelength selection
- Chapter 3. Robust principal component analysis and constrained background bilinearization for quantitative analysis
- Chapter 4. Kalman filter quantitative resolution of overlapped shifted peaks after optimal alignment by simulated annealing
- Chapter 5. Selection of molecular descriptors for quantitative structureactivity relationships
- Chapter 6. Fundamentals of cluster analysis using simulated annealing
- Chapter 7. Classification of materials
- Chapter 8. Chemical batch process scheduling
- Chapter 9. Nuclear fuel management
- Chapter 10. Design of cost-effective emission control strategies
- Chapter 11. Determination of biexponential fluorescence lifetimes by using simulated annealing and simplex searching
- Chapter 12. Simulated annealing applied to crystallographic structure refinement
- Chapter 13. Multi-dimensional searches in macromolecular X-ray crystallography
- Chapter 14. Simulated annealing in the calculation of NMR structures
- Chapter 15. Structural models of tetrahedrally bonded amorphous materials
- Chapter 16. Conformational analysis of flexible molecules
- Chapter 17. Simulated annealing-optimal histogram applications to the protein folding problem
- Chapter 18. Optimization of linear and non-linear parameters in a trial wavefunction by the method of simulated annealing
- Chapter 19. Annealing to a moving target: first principles molecular dynamics
- Chapter 20. A MATLAB algorithm for optimization of an arbitrary multivariate function
- Epilogue
- Index