Studies on the Heuristic Algorithm for the N-Vehicle Exploration Problem (NVEP)
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Abstract This paper studies some properties of the exploration problem with N vehicles, which consist a necessary condition for the optimal solution. Based on this condition, the authors design a heuristic algorithm, into which the greedy idea is introduced. The computational complexity of the algorithm is ) ( 4 n O . After that, by calculating 10 numerical examples selected from paper [4], we compare the effectiveness of this algorithm with two kinds of heuristic algorithm proposed in paper [4], and the simulation results show that even if it costs a little more computing time which could be controlled in polynomial time, the new algorithm we design in this paper has a much higher approximation ratio.
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