Article ID: | iaor20163568 |
Volume: | 244 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 583 |
End Page Number: | 601 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Rego Csar, Osterman Colin |
Keywords: | combinatorial optimization |
The problem of data representation is fundamental to the efficiency of search algorithms for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). The computational effort required to perform such tour operations as traversal and subpath reversal considerably influence algorithm design and performance. We propose a new data structure–the