Research Article

Simultaneous Generation of Optimum Pavement Clusters and Associated Performance Models

Table 3

Setup parameters for implementation of the proposed algorithm.

ParameterValueRemarks

10Initial temperature
10e-17Final minimum temperature
 3000Boltzmann constant
 0.97Cooling rate
10Number of neighborhood solutions generated at each temperature level
800Minimum number of observations required in a cluster
25Number of pavement samples, which memberships were changed to generate a neighborhood cluster