Titelei_Hartmann 18.03.2004 14:22 Uhr Seite 3 (Black/Process Black Bogen) New Optimization Algorithms in Physics Edited by Alexander K. Hartmann and Heiko Rieger Titelei_Hartmann 18.03.2004 14:22 Uhr Seite 4 Editors Alexander K. Hartmann Universität Göttingen, Germany
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[email protected] Cover Picture Short artificial peptide (U. H. E. Hansmann); Dense configuration of polydisperse hard discs (W. Krauth); Cut Polytope for the complete graph with N=3 (F. Liers et al); Factor graph for 3-SAT (R. Zecchina) (Black/Process Black Bogen) This book was carefully produced. Nevertheless, editors, authors and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Li