Genetic algorithms for the travelling salesman problem: A review of representations and operators

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-170

  Larranaga P ^a   Kuijpers, C M H ^a   Murga, R H ^a   Inza, I ^a   Dizdarevic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADJACENCY REPRESENTATION; BINARY REPRESENTATION; MATRIX REPRESENTATION; ORDINAL REPRESENTATION; PATH REPRESENTATION;

TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

EID: 0039397863     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006529012972     Document Type: Article

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