I assumed, you got this question by reading some papers? People use metaheuristic methods for certain special condition. Some favor those methods, but others don't like it because it involves a lot of judgement. SA is a very general method where you change some parameter values and see how the results change.
Thank you for your valuable replies. But would like to know, to what extent the parametric values may be changed for a metaheuristic for SA? Is there any definite rule?