A simple and fast Rust implementation of a Simulated Annealing Algorithm for the PACE 2024 challenge.

Brief description

• The algorithm first constructs an initial solution using the well known mean heuristic.
• Then, it runs a Simulated Annealing using simple shift moves.

How to build and run?

Rust has to be installed on the system: https://www.rust-lang.org This version was tested with Rust 1.78.0

• To Build: cargo build --release
• To Run: cargo run --release

All required dependencies are defined in the Cargo.toml file.

Contact

Tony Wauters (tony.wauters@kuleuven.be) Fabien Nießen (fabien.niessen@kuleuven.be) KU Leuven