An improved heuristic for the period traveling salesman problem

  • Authors:
  • Luca Bertazzi;Giuseppe Paletta;M. Grazia Speranza

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi, Università di Brescia, Contrada S.ta Chiara 50, Brescia 25122, Italy;Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (Cs) 87036, Italy;Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi, Università di Brescia, Contrada S.ta Chiara 50, Brescia 25122, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose a heuristic algorithm for the solution of the period traveling salesman problem Computational results obtained on the classical test instances of the literature show that the total distance obtained by the algorithm is not worse than the best-known total distance in 95% of the instances and is strictly better in 18 of the 40 tested instances.