Traveling salesman problem / edited by Federico Greco.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Greco, Federico, Editor.

Contributor:

• Greco, Federico, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Traveling salesman problem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

• IntechOpen 2008
• Rijeka, Croatia : InTech, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea behind TSP was conceived by Austrian mathematician Karl Menger in mid 1930s who invited the research community to consider a problem from the everyday life from a mathematical point of view. A traveling salesman has to visit exactly once each one of a list of m cities and then return to the home city. He knows the cost of traveling from any city i to any other city j. Thus, which is the tour of least possible cost the salesman can take? In this book the problem of finding algorithmic technique leading to good/optimal solutions for TSP (or for some other strictly related problems) is considered. TSP is a very attractive problem for the research community because it arises as a natural subproblem in many applications concerning the every day life. Indeed, each application, in which an optimal ordering of a number of items has to be chosen in a way that the total cost of a solution is determined by adding up the costs arising from two successively items, can be modelled as a TSP instance. Thus, studying TSP can never be considered as an abstract research with no real importance.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 10, 2022).

ISBN:

• 9789535157502
• 9535157507