A new genetic algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem

  • Authors:
  • Yuichi Nagata;David Soler

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan;Institut Universitari de Matemítica Pura i Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP) is one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems. It allows us to solve, either directly or through a transformation, many real-world problems. We present in this paper a new competitive genetic algorithm to solve this problem. This algorithm has been checked on a set of 153 benchmark instances with known optimal solution and it outperforms the results obtained with previous ATSP heuristic methods.