Research Article

Local Search-Based Metaheuristic Methods for the Solid Waste Collection Problem

Algorithm 3

Simulated annealing.
(1)Generate initial solution
(2)Set initial temperature
(3)while stopping criterion is not met do
(4)repeat
(5)  Generate new solution
(6)  ifthen
(7)   
(8)  else
(9)    with probability
(10)  end if
(11)until thermodynamic equilibrium
(12) Decrease T
(13)end while
(14)return best solution found