Parallel Fast Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Linear ...

Motivation
• It is estimated ("How much information” project, Univ. of California
Berkeley) that 1 million terabytes of data is generated annually worldwide,
with 99.997% of it available only in digital form.
• It is commonly agreed that our ability to analyze new data is growing at
much lower pace than the capacity to collect and store it.
• When examining huge data samples one faces both technical difficulties and
methodological obstacles of high-dimensional data analysis (coined term –
"curse of dimensionality”).
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