Beschreibung

Still today I am receiving requests for reprints of the book, but unfortunately it is out of print. Therefore, since the book still seems to receive some attention, I p- posed to Springer Verlag to provide a free online edition. I am very happy that Springer agreed. Except for the correction of some typographical errors, the online edition is just a copy of the printed version, no updates have been made. In particular, Table 13.1 gives the status of TSPLIB at the time of publishing the book. For accessing TSPLIB the link http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/iwr/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ should be used instead of following the procedure described in Chapter 13. Heidelberg, January 2001 Gerhard Reinelt Preface More than ?fteen years ago, I was faced with the following problem in an assignment for a class in computer science. A brewery had to deliver beer to ?ve stores, and the task was to write a computer program for determining the shortest route for the truck driver to visit all stores and return to the brewery. All my attemps to ?nd a reasonable algorithm failed, I could not help enumerating all possible routes and then select the best one.

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Zusammenfassung
"Without any doubt, I can recommend this book, both for practitioners as well as researchers, since it gives a concise and crisp overview of the heuristical approach to solving the TSP." OPTIMA

Inhalt
Basic Concepts.- Related Problems and Applications.- Geometric Concepts.- Candidate Sets.- Construction Heuristics.- Improving Solutions.- Heuristics for Large Geometric Problems.- Further Heuristic Approaches.- Lower Bounds.- A Case Study: TSPs in Printed Circuit Board Production.- Practical TSP Solving.

Produktinformationen

Titel:	The Traveling Salesman
Untertitel:	Computational Solutions for TSP Applications
Autor:	Gerhard Reinelt
EAN:	9783540583349
ISBN:	3540583343
Format:	Kartonierter Einband
Herausgeber:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Anzahl Seiten:	232
Gewicht:	577g
Größe:	H279mm x B210mm x T12mm
Jahr:	1994
Untertitel:	Englisch
Auflage:	1994