scholarly journals Developing Programming Tools to Handle Traveling Salesman Problem by the Three Object-Oriented Languages

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ismkhan ◽  
Kamran Zamanifar

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most famous problems. Many applications and programming tools have been developed to handle TSP. However, it seems to be essential to provide easy programming tools according to state-of-the-art algorithms. Therefore, we have collected and programmed new easy tools by the three object-oriented languages. In this paper, we present ADT (abstract data type) of developed tools at first; then we analyze their performance by experiments. We also design a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) by developed tools. Experimental results show that the proposed HGA is comparable with the recent state-of-the-art applications.

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quang Minh Ha ◽  
Yves Deville ◽  
Quang Dung Pham ◽  
Minh Hoàng Hà

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Luo ◽  
Shiliang Gu

<p>In this paper, a novel search algorithm that based on the Contraction-Expansion algorithm and integrated three operators Exchange, Move, and Flip (EMF-CE) is proposed for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). EMF-CE uses a negative exponent function to generate critical value as the feedback regulation of algorithm implementation. Also, combined Exchange Step, Move step with Flip step and constitute of more than twenty combinatorial optimizations of program elements. It has been shown that the integration of local search operators can significantly improve the performance of EMF-CE for TSPs. We test small and medium scale (51-1000 cities) TSPs were taken from the TSPLIB online library. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed EMF-CE for addressing TSPs compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Emerson Bezerra De Carvalho ◽  
Elizabeth Ferreira Gouvêa Goldbarg ◽  
Marco Cesar Goldbarg

The Lin and Kernighan’s algorithm for the single objective Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most efficient heuristics for the symmetric case. Although many algorithms for the TSP were extended to the multi-objective version of the problem (MTSP), the Lin and Kernighan’s algorithm was still not fully explored. Works that applied the Lin and Kernighan’s algorithm for the MTSP were driven to weighted sum versions of the problem. We investigate the LK from a Pareto dominance perspective. The multi-objective LK was implemented within two local search schemes and applied to 2 to 4-objective instances. The results  showed that the proposed algorithmic variants obtained better results than a state-of-the-art algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-335
Author(s):  
Roberto Roberti ◽  
Mario Ruthmair

Efficiently handling last-mile deliveries becomes more and more important nowadays. Using drones to support classical vehicles allows improving delivery schedules as long as efficient solution methods to plan last-mile deliveries with drones are available. We study exact solution approaches for some variants of the traveling salesman problem with drone (TSP-D) in which a truck and a drone are teamed up to serve a set of customers. This combination of truck and drone can exploit the benefits of both vehicle types: the truck has a large capacity but usually low travel speed in urban areas; the drone is faster and not restricted to street networks, but its range and carrying capacity are limited. We propose a compact mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for several TSP-D variants that is based on timely synchronizing truck and drone flows; such an MILP is easy to implement but nevertheless leads to competitive results compared with the state-of-the-art MILPs. Furthermore, we introduce dynamic programming recursions to model several TSP-D variants. We show how these dynamic programming recursions can be exploited in an exact branch-and-price approach based on a set partitioning formulation using ng-route relaxation and a three-level hierarchical branching. The proposed branch-and-price can solve instances with up to 39 customers to optimality outperforming the state-of-the-art by more than doubling the manageable instance size. Finally, we analyze different scenarios and show that even a single drone can significantly reduce a route’s completion time when the drone is sufficiently fast.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Luo ◽  
Shiliang Gu

<p>In this paper, a novel search algorithm that based on the Contraction-Expansion algorithm and integrated three operators Exchange, Move, and Flip (EMF-CE) is proposed for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). EMF-CE uses a negative exponent function to generate critical value as the feedback regulation of algorithm implementation. Also, combined Exchange Step, Move step with Flip step and constitute of more than twenty combinatorial optimizations of program elements. It has been shown that the integration of local search operators can significantly improve the performance of EMF-CE for TSPs. We test small and medium scale (51-1000 cities) TSPs were taken from the TSPLIB online library. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed EMF-CE for addressing TSPs compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms.</p>


Author(s):  
Zeravan Arif Ali ◽  
Subhi Ahmed Rasheed ◽  
Nabeel No’man Ali

<span>Robust known the exceedingly famed NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization is the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), promoting the skillful algorithms to get the solution of TSP have been the burden for several scholars. For inquiring global optimal solution, the presented algorithm hybridizes genetic and local search algorithm to take out the uplifted quality results. The genetic algorithm gives the best individual of population by enhancing both cross over and mutation operators while local search gives the best local solutions by testing all neighbor solution. By comparing with the conventional genetic algorithm, the numerical outcomes acts that the presented algorithm is more adequate to attain optimal or very near to it. Problems arrested from the TSP library strongly trial the algorithm and shows that the proposed algorithm can reap outcomes within reach optimal. For more details, please download TEMPLATE HELP FILE from the website.</span>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Luo ◽  
Shiliang Gu

<p>In this paper, a novel search algorithm that based on the Contraction-Expansion algorithm and integrated three operators Exchange, Move, and Flip (EMF-CE) is proposed for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). EMF-CE uses a negative exponent function to generate critical value as the feedback regulation of algorithm implementation. Also, combined Exchange Step, Move step with Flip step and constitute of more than twenty combinatorial optimizations of program elements. It has been shown that the integration of local search operators can significantly improve the performance of EMF-CE for TSPs. We test small and medium scale (51-1000 cities) TSPs were taken from the TSPLIB online library. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed EMF-CE for addressing TSPs compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms.</p>


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