When Nathan Klein started graduate school two years ago, his advisers proposed a modest plan: to work together on one of the most famous, long-standing problems in theoretical computer science. Even ...

Tokyo University of Science researchers have built a chip-based quantum annealing processor that can solve the classically thorny ‘travelling salesman’ mathematical puzzle, which gets far more complex ...

The traveling salesman problem is one of the basic problems that many theoretical computer scientists have been working on. Many scientists think that there is no algorithm for the traveling salesman ...

A visual interactive method of improving solutions for the travelling salesman problem is described. The travelling or multiple travelling salesman problem, when constraints are included, forms the ...

The human mind is a path-planning wizard. Think back to pre-lockdown days when we all ran multiple errands back to back across town. There was always a mental dance in the back of your head to make ...

Is it possible to compute the shortest route through a large number of stops? The task, known as the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, sounds simple enough. And it arises in many practical ...

'Electronic amoeba' finds approximate solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time Date: December 10, 2020 Source: Hokkaido University Summary: Researchers have, inspired by the efficient ...

Bumblebees aren’t just hard workers, they’re efficient, too. These insects have a grasp of maths that enables them to crack the classic travelling salesman problem as they forage for pollen and nectar ...