Article ID: | iaor19951114 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 43 |
End Page Number: | 48 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
Journal: | Information Processing Letters |
Authors: | Sarkar U.K., Chakrabarti P.P., Ghose S., Desarkar S.C. |
Keywords: | programming: travelling salesman |
A multiple stack branch and bound (MSBB) algorithm which uses a multiple stack data structure in order to reduce the overhead of selecting the most promising node in a best first search scheme is presented. A variation of the algorithm MSBB is presented for providing an approximate solution with any prescribed bound on its cost of solution. Experiments were performed with the Euclidean travelling salesman problem.