A noisy chaotic neural network for solving combinatorial optimization problems : stochastic chaotic simulated annealing

Recently Chen and Aihara have demonstrated both experimentally and mathematically that their chaotic simulated annealing (CSA) has better search ability for solving combinatorial optimization problems compared to both the Hopfield-Tank approach and stochastic simulated annealing (SSA). However, CSA...

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Main Authors: Wang, Lipo., Fu, Xiuju, Li, Sa, Tian, Fuyu
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93979
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8194
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Recently Chen and Aihara have demonstrated both experimentally and mathematically that their chaotic simulated annealing (CSA) has better search ability for solving combinatorial optimization problems compared to both the Hopfield-Tank approach and stochastic simulated annealing (SSA). However, CSA may not find a globally optimal solution no matter how slowly annealing is carried out, because the chaotic dynamics are completely deterministic. In contrast, SSA tends to settle down to a global optimum if the temperature is reduced sufficiently slowly. Here we combine the best features of both SSA and CSA, thereby proposing a new approach for solving optimization problems, i.e., stochastic chaotic simulated annealing, by using a noisy chaotic neural network. We show the effectiveness of this new approach with two difficult combinatorial optimization problems, i.e., a traveling salesman problem and a channel assignment problem for cellular mobile communications.