Continuous reformulations and heuristics for the euclidean travelling salesperson problem

Valkonen, Tuomo; Kärkkäinen, Tommi

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 15 (2009) no. 4, pp. 895-913.

We consider continuous reformulations of the euclidean travelling salesperson problem (TSP), based on certain clustering problem formulations. These reformulations allow us to apply a generalisation with perturbations of the Weiszfeld algorithm in an attempt to find local approximate solutions to the euclidean TSP.

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