Article ID: | iaor20102941 |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 83 |
End Page Number: | 84 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Manthey Bodo, Engels Christian |
We show that the 2-opt heuristic for the traveling salesman problem achieves an expected approximation ratio of roughly