Santé Riveira, InésBoullón Magán, MarcosCrecente Maseda, RafaelMiranda Barrós, David2019-11-222019-11-222007-09-02Inés Santé-Riveira, Marcos Boullón-Magán, Rafael Crecente-Maseda and David Miranda-Barrós, Algorithm based on simulated annealing for land use allocation, Computers & Geosciences (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2007.03.0140098-3004http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20276This article describes the use of simulated annealing for allocation of land units to a set of possible uses on, the basis of their suitability for those uses, and the compactness of the total areas allotted to the same use or kind of use, which are fixed a priori. The results obtained for the Terra Chá district of Galicia (N.W. Spain) using different objective weighting schemes are compared with each other and with those obtained for this district under the same area constraints, using hierarchical optimization, ideal point analysis, and multi-objective land allocation (MOLA) to maximize average use suitability. Inclusion of compactness in the simulated annealing objective function avoids the highly disperse allocations typical of optimizations that ignore this sub-objectiveeng© 2007 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Multicriterion land allocationLand usesMOLAHierarchical optimizationIdeal point analysisjournal article10.1016/j.cageo.2007.03.014open access