Accession Number:
ADA025602
Title:
Worst-Case Analysis of a New Heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem
Descriptive Note:
Research rept.
Corporate Author:
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA MANAGEMENT SCIENCES RESEARCH GROUP
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Report Date:
1976-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
An On sup 3 heuristic algorithm is described for solving n-city travelling salesman problems TSP whose cost matrix satisfies the triangularity condition. The algorithm involves as substeps the computation of a shortest spanning tree of the graph G defining the TSP, and the finding of a minimum cost perfect matching of a certain induced subgraph of G. A worst-case analysis of this heuristic shows that the ratio of the answer obtained to the optimum TSP solution is strictly less than 32. This represents a 50 reduction over the value 2 which was the previously best known such ratio for the performance of other polynomial-growth algorithms for the TSP.
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Subject Categories:
- Operations Research