An integer programming-based local search for the covering salesman problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2594-2602

  Salari, Majid ^a   Naji Azimi, Zahra ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Covering salesman problem; Heuristics; Integer linear programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TESTS; DATA SETS; HAMILTONIAN CYCLE; HEURISTIC SEARCH; HEURISTICS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LOCAL SEARCH; SALESMAN PROBLEM;

HAMILTONIANS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 84859724409     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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