Travelling salesman variation in python

Erlend Andreas Garberg erlendga at tva.ifi.uio.no
Thu Apr 1 13:53:09 EST 2004


In article <c4ho3l$4he$1 at news.service.uci.edu>, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> Look at current TSP algorithms, and exchange their minimization rutines 
> for a maximization rutine.  TSP is an NP-hard problem, which means that 
> there is no currently known algorithm for solving it in polynomial time. 
>   You can approximate it or do a search on the solution space, but 
> solving it requires searching basically all of the solution space.
> 
>   - Josiah

An approximate solution would be good enough, do you have any 
suggestions about how do do that?


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mvh
Erlend Garberg
erlendga at ifi.uio.no




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