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Searching for backbones — an efficient parallel algorithm for the traveling salesman problem
Schneider, Johannes, Froschhammer, Christine, Morgenstern, Ingo, Husslein, Thomas and Singer, Johannes Maria (1996) Searching for backbones — an efficient parallel algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. Computer physics communications: an international journal devoted to computational physics and computer programs in physics 96 (2-3), pp. 173-188.Date of publication of this fulltext: 09 Aug 2010 12:12
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.16102
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The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) plays an important role in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics. We investigated it using a stochastic approach. Studying several solutions of a special TSP we found that many parts of a good solution are the same in all other good solutions for this problem. In this paper we discuss an efficient parallel method to reduce the TSP ...
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) plays an important role in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics. We investigated it using a stochastic approach. Studying several solutions of a special TSP we found that many parts of a good solution are the same in all other good solutions for this problem. In this paper we discuss an efficient parallel method to reduce the TSP to a smaller one by finding these backbones and eliminating them to get even better solutions in a very short time and a few observables of interest corresponding to this parallel approach.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Computer physics communications: an international journal devoted to computational physics and computer programs in physics | ||||
| Publisher: | North Holland Publ. Co. | ||||
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| Volume: | 96 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 2-3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 173-188 | ||||
| Date | 1 August 1996 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Professor Morgenstern | ||||
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| Keywords | Optimization; Parallel; Monte Carlo; Threshold accepting; TSP; Backbone; Degeneracy | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Unknown | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Unknown | ||||
| Item ID | 16102 |
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