After Karp’s paper was published, many computer scientists set their sights on creating an efficient algorithm to find approximate solutions to the traveling salesman problem — round-trip ...

This article shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem using C# or Python. A good way to see where this article is headed is to take a look at the screenshot of a ...

With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

This algorithm is faster than the original r-optimal method, and computation times increase much less rapidly with problem size. The new algorithm makes it possible to solve large-scale travelling ...

The salesman can calculate the distance of all six possible routes and choose the shortest. This is the “brute-force” solution of the TSP. But what if there are 10 cities instead of three?