Traveling Salesman Problem - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9537619109 ISBN 13: 9789537619107

Verlag: IntechOpen, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The idea behind TSP was conceived by Austrian mathematician Karl Menger in mid 1930s who invited the research community to consider a problem from the everyday life from a mathematical point of view. A traveling salesman has to visit exactly once each one of a list of m cities and then return to the home city. He knows the cost of traveling from any city i to any other city j. Thus, which is the tour of least possible cost the salesman can take? In this book the problem of finding algorithmic technique leading to good/optimal solutions for TSP (or for some other strictly related problems) is considered. TSP is a very attractive problem for the research community because it arises as a natural subproblem in many applications concerning the every day life. Indeed, each application, in which an optimal ordering of a number of items has to be chosen in a way that the total cost of a solution is determined by adding up the costs arising from two successively items, can be modelled as a TSP instance. Thus, studying TSP can never be considered as an abstract research with no real importance.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IntechOpen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9537619109
• ISBN 13: 9789537619107
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
• Herausgeber: Greco Federico
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland