Efficient Heuristics for Orientation Metric and Euclidean Steiner Tree Problems *

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-98

  Li, Y Y ^a   Leung, K S ^a   Wong, C K ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Euclidean metric; Heuristics; Orientation metric; Rectilinear metric; Steiner tree problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004694289     PISSN: 13826905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009837006569     Document Type: Article

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