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After Karp’s paper was published, many computer scientists set their sights on creating an efficient algorithm to find approximate solutions to the traveling salesman problem — round-trip ...

This algorithm is faster than the original r-optimal method, and computation times increase much less rapidly with problem size. The new algorithm makes it possible to solve large-scale travelling ...

And even the most unrelenting brute-force attack on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) might not be enough. Finding the shortest way around a 33-city route would require calculating the distances ...

We consider a variant of the classical symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem in which the nodes are partitioned into clusters and the salesman has to visit at least one node for each cluster. This ...

With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

The most efficient path that visits each of 2 million stars just once We have found the best path to take between the stars. The travelling salesman problem, an infamous mathematical puzzle that ...