Data Structures and Algorithms
with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java 
Consider again the scales balancing problem
described in Section 
.
That is, we are given a set of n weights, 
,
which are to be placed on a pair of scales in the way that
minimizes the difference between the total weight in each pan.
Feasible solution to the problem all have the form
,
where
To solve this problem using simulated annealing, we need a strategy for generating random moves. The move generator should make small, random changes to the current solution and it must ensure that all possible solutions can be reached. A simple approach is to use the formula
where 
is the initial solution, 
is a new solution,
is a sequence of zeroes and ones
generated randomly,
and 
denotes elementwise addition modulo two.
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