Statistical mechanics and disordered systems
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 28 (4), 363-373
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3341.3344
Abstract
Since computers are able to simulate the equilibrium properties of model systems, they may also prove useful for solving the hard optimization problems that arise in the engineering of complex systems.Keywords
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