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EOR
2000
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An effective implementation of the Lin-Kernighan traveling salesman heuristic
This report describes an implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic, one of the most successful methods for generating optimal or nearoptimal solutions for the symmetric travel...
Keld Helsgaun
HEURISTICS
2007
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A composite-neighborhood tabu search approach to the traveling tournament problem
The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a combinatorial problem that combines features from the traveling salesman problem and the tournament scheduling problem. We propose a fa...
Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf
DISOPT
2006
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New facets of the STS polytope generated from known facets of the ATS polytope
While it was known for a long time how to transform an asymmetric traveling salesman problem on the complete graph with n vertices into a symmetric traveling salesman problem on a...
Egon Balas, Robert Carr, Matteo Fischetti, Neil Si...
COR
2006
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Aggregation for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem
5 In the probabilistic traveling salesman problem (PTSP), customers require a visit with a given probability, and the best solution is the tour through all customers with the lowe...
Ann Melissa Campbell
DISOPT
2010
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The Delivery Man Problem with time windows
In this paper, a variant of the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows is considered, which consists in minimizing the sum of travel durations between a depot and several cu...
Géraldine Heilporn, Jean-François Co...
CORR
2008
Springer
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Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem Reduction Algorithms
The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem. In GTSP, we are given a partition of cities into groups and we are ...
Gregory Gutin, Daniel Karapetyan
COR
2008
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Good triangulations yield good tours
Consider the following heuristic for planar Euclidean instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP): select a subset of the edges which induces a planar graph, and solve eithe...
Adam N. Letchford, Nicholas A. Pearson
ANOR
2008
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A branch and bound method for the job-shop problem with sequence-dependent setup times
This paper deals with the job-shop scheduling problem with sequencedependent setup times. We propose a new method to solve the makespan minimization problem to optimality. The met...
Christian Artigues, Dominique Feillet
GECCO
2010
Springer
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Consultant-guided search algorithms for the quadratic assignment problem
Abstract. Consultant-Guided Search (CGS) is a recent swarm intelligence metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, inspired by the way real people make decisions based ...
Serban Iordache
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Using multiple offspring sampling to guide genetic algorithms to solve permutation problems
The correct choice of an evolutionary algorithm, a genetic representation for the problem being solved (as well as their associated variation operators) and the appropriate values...
Antonio LaTorre, José Manuel Peña, V...