The paper introduces the timetabling problem, and then describes the simulated annealing method. Annealing is then applied to the timetabling problem. A prototype timetabling environment is described ...

Chih-Ming Liu, Ruey-Li Kao, An-Hsiang Wang, Solving Location-Allocation Problems with Rectilinear Distances by Simulated Annealing, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 45, No. 11 ...

We just care that it’s linear in N. In the Google paper, they discuss two classical algorithms that do match the asymptotic performance — and one of them beats the real-world performance — of the ...