My understanding of simulated annealing is that the &quot;fudge factor&quot; is chosen and reduced more or less &quot;naively&quot;. By which I mean it&#x27;s initial value and reduction across iterations is hard wired into the execution path before it runs and...the parameters for iteration \i\ are determined before iteration \1\.<p>My understanding of the article is that the new algorithm determines the parameters of iteration \i\ statistically from the results of iterations \1\ through \i-1\.