Systematic generation of Hamiltonian circuits

  • Authors:
  • S. M. Roberts;Benito Flores

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corp., Houston, TX;Univ. of Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1966

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Abstract

For a combinatorial matrix which may specify both directed and nondirected arcs, the paper describes a computer program which generates systematically and exhaustively all the Hamiltonian circuits. Specific application is made to the “traveling salesman” problem.