1 | Physical Optimization applies a set of Optimization (minimization) methods motivated by physical processes to general optimization problems |
2 | These include simulated annealing, neural networks, deterministic annealing, simulated tempering and genetic algorithms |
3 | We look at general TSP, clustering in physical spaces, track finding, navigation, school class scheduling, Random field Ising Models and data decomposition and other computing optimization problems |
4 | We discuss when methods such as neural networks are effective |