An Evaluation of the Use of Simulated Annealing to Optimize Thinning Rates for Single Even-Aged Stands

Table 3

Summary of the updating processes of SA.

Attribute	Number of iterations at last update				Number of updates
Model	S		L		S		L
Final cutting cost	H	F	H	F	H	F	H	F
Minimum	177,060	48,003	2,249	426	370	25	29	11
Median	197,820	151,933	118,836	128,301	506	98	66	21
Maximum	199,987	199,518	199,967	194,512	633	162	105	40
Mean	195,634	148,959	114,566	123,378	503	103	70	23
Standard deviation	5,659.8	41,060.7	54,178.6	47,651.7	70.1	29.5	18.4	7.4
CV (%)	2.89	27.57	47.29	38.62	13.9	28.6	26.3	32.8

CV: coefficient of variation.