• Title of article

    The balancedtravelingsalesmanproblem

  • Author/Authors

    John Larusic ، نويسنده , , AbrahamP.Punnen، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    868
  • To page
    875
  • Abstract
    In thispaperweintroducethebalancedtravelingsalesmanproblem(BTSP),whichcanbeusedtomodel optimizationproblemswhereequitabledistributionofresourcesareimportant.BTSPisobviouslyNP- hard. Efficientheuristicalgorithmsarepresentedtosolvetheproblemalongwithextensive computationalresultsusingbenchmarkproblemsfromTSPLIBandrandominstances.Ouralgorithms producedprovablyoptimalsolutionsforseveraltestinstances.Applicationofthemodelinsolvingthe nozzleguidevaneassemblyproblemrelatedtothemaintenanceofaircraftenginesisalsodiscussed.
  • Keywords
    Traveling salesman problem , Balanced optimization , Complexity , Heuristics , Experimental analysis
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927908