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Good triangulations yield good tours

Good triangulations yield good tours
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 either the TSP or its graphical relaxation on that graph. In this paper, we give several motivations for considering this heuristic, along with extensive computational results. It turns out that the Delaunay and greedy triangulations make effective choices for the induced planar graph. Indeed, our experiments show that the resulting tours are on average within 0.1% of optimality.
Scope and purpose
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a fundamental and well-known problem in combinatorial optimisation. It has many applications, for example in vehicle routing and machine scheduling. This paper proposes several heuristics methods for the Euclidean TSP, based on the use of triangulations, and gives extensive computational results.
delaunay triangulation, traveling salesman problem
0305-0548
638-647
Letchford, Adam N.
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Pearson, Nicholas A.
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Letchford, Adam N.
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Pearson, Nicholas A.
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Letchford, Adam N. and Pearson, Nicholas A. (2008) Good triangulations yield good tours. Computers and Operations Research, 35 (2), 638-647. (doi:10.1016/j.cor.2006.03.025).

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Abstract

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 either the TSP or its graphical relaxation on that graph. In this paper, we give several motivations for considering this heuristic, along with extensive computational results. It turns out that the Delaunay and greedy triangulations make effective choices for the induced planar graph. Indeed, our experiments show that the resulting tours are on average within 0.1% of optimality.
Scope and purpose
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a fundamental and well-known problem in combinatorial optimisation. It has many applications, for example in vehicle routing and machine scheduling. This paper proposes several heuristics methods for the Euclidean TSP, based on the use of triangulations, and gives extensive computational results.

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Published date: February 2008
Keywords: delaunay triangulation, traveling salesman problem
Organisations: Operational Research

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Local EPrints ID: 50725
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/50725
ISSN: 0305-0548
PURE UUID: 08e9beaf-9759-48b5-bc97-c5a8f2c9769b

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Date deposited: 27 Mar 2008
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 10:11

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Author: Adam N. Letchford
Author: Nicholas A. Pearson

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