• Python 3
• tkinter (the standard GUI library for Python)

After cloning the repository it is sufficient to execute following command in the project directory:

$ python3 main.py

For the set input file, program displays the initial setup, for example:

Program then waits until displayed window is clicked on or closed. After that optimalization is performed:

Initial length: 1765
A better solution found with length: 1742
Accepted worse solution with the probability of 0.10022425520030427
New length is: 1765
A better solution found with length: 1706
A better solution found with length: 1703
Accepted worse solution with the probability of 0.74069147936012
New length is: 1706
A better solution found with length: 1703
Accepted worse solution with the probability of 0.7405557077338545
New length is: 1706
A better solution found with length: 1658
A better solution found with length: 1561
5107 of 100000...

After completing all iterations program informs about the end of simulation, prints out the final length and draws the obtained schedule.

Simulation ended.
Final length is: 1529

It is possible to set some parameters like number of iterations, path to another input file, initial temperature etc. To view all of them, please type:

$ python3 main.py -h

which will show how to set all the parameters as well as their default values.

Program was tested with various input files, taken from here and here. The latter link contains the summary of the best known lower and upper bounds.

Some of the obtained results are presented in the table below: