Improved solutions for the Chinese postman problem on mixed networks

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 819-827

  Pearn, W L ^a   Chou, J B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Manufacturing/Material Division   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Network routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHINESE POSTMAN PROBLEMS;

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS;

METHODOLOGY; NETWORKING; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 0033166648     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(98)00092-6     Document Type: Article

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