Transportation Science, Vol. 38, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION (May 2004), pp. 245-255 (11 pages) This paper deals with a generalisation of the well-known traveling salesman problem ...
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses full code samples to detail an evolutionary algorithm technique that apparently hasn't been published before. The goal of a combinatorial optimization ...
Determining the precise integrality gap for the subtour linear programming (LP) relaxation of the traveling salesman problem is a significant open question, with little progress made in thirty years ...
Is it hopeless to try to compute the shortest route to visit a large number of cities? Not just a good route but the guaranteed shortest. The task is the long-standing challenge known as the traveling ...
We have found the best path to take between the stars. The travelling salesman problem, an infamous mathematical puzzle that seeks the shortest route between many locations while visiting each only ...