Optimality Theory (OT) requires an algorithm optimising the Harmony function on the set of candidates. Simulated annealing, a well-known heuris- tic technique for combinatorial optimisation, has been argued to be an em- pirically adequate solution to this problem. In order to generalise simulated...
Finally, the coordinates for each metacell in the 2D projection are computed by applying a standard force-directed layout algorithm to the metacell graph GM, and the cells are positioned by averaging the metacell coordinates of their filtered neighbor cells in the original balanced graph G. Z-...