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In this paper, we introduce a simulated annealing algorithm for single objective, trans-dimensional optimization problems. Trans-dimensional optimization refers to a class of problems where candidate solutions can have different number of variables. For such problems, the existing optimization methods need to be run for various models (i.e. problems with fixed number of variables) extensively, which...