On the high multiplicity traveling salesman problem

On the high multiplicity traveling salesman problem

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Article ID: iaor2007461
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 50
End Page Number: 62
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Journal: Discrete Optimization
Authors: ,
Abstract:

This paper considers a version of the traveling salesman problem where the cities are to be visited multiple times. Each city has its own required number of visits. We investigate how the optimal solution and its objective value change when the numbers of visits are increased by a common multiplicator. In addition, we derive lower bounds on values of the multiplicator beyond which further increase does not improve the average tour length. Moreover, we show how and when the structure of an optimal tour length can be derived from tours with smaller multiplicities.

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