This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We motivate, derive, and implement a multilevel approach to the travelling salesman problem. The resulting algorithm progressively coarsens ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses full code samples to detail an evolutionary algorithm technique that apparently hasn't been published before. The goal of a combinatorial optimization ...

Bumblebees foraging in flowers for nectar are like salesmen traveling between towns: Both seek the optimal route to minimize their travel costs. Mathematicians call this the "traveling salesman ...