Elsevier, Statistics and Probability Letters, 4(31), p. 247-253
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00008-9
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The efficiency of a continuous version of the simulated annealing algorithm is evaluated by the expected number of steps to reach an [epsilon]-neighborhood of the global minimum value of the objective function. Different sampling procedures are analyzed and compared to the pure random search procedure. And as a side result, we obtain simpler proofs for some asymptotic results of Dekkers and Aarts (1991).