Article ID: | iaor19983048 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 134 |
End Page Number: | 143 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1996 |
Journal: | INFORMS Journal On Computing |
Authors: | Laporte Gilbert, Boctor Fayez F., Renaud Jacques |
Keywords: | heuristics, programming: assignment, optimization |
This article describes a new composite heuristic for the symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem. The heuristic consists of three phases: construction of an initial envelope, insertion of the remaining vertices, and improvement procedure. The heuristic is shown to perform very well both on randomly generated instances and on TSPLIB problems.