Match twice and stitch: a new TSP tour construction heuristic

نویسندگان

  • Andrew B. Kahng
  • Sherief Reda
چکیده

We present a new symmetric traveling salesman problem tour construction heuristic. Two sequential matchings yield a set of cycles over the given point set; these are then stitched to form a tour. Our method outperforms all previous tour construction methods, but is dominated by several tour improvement heuristics. c © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Oper. Res. Lett.

دوره 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004