Travelling salesman problem

2022 Problem solving

Definition

Either a seller must visit N cities with the minium trip distance.

\[ \sum_{i=1}^{n} \sum_{j \neq i, j=1}^{n} c_{ij}x_{ij} \]

Instances

Instances are available TSPLIB95 http://comopt.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de/software/TSPLIB95/tsp/

Example

We interest of the instance eil76. The number of node is 76 in euclidean plane. This is case, we use a stockastic algorithm of local search: the first-improvement with a swap operator of two items.

The figure 1 represented the optimisation progression.

TSP-n76

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