Traveling salesman should not be greedy: Domination analysis of greedy-type heuristics for the TSP

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 81-86

  Gutin, Gregory ^a   Yeo, Anders ^b   Zverovich, Alexey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Domination analysis; Greedy algorithm; Nearest neighbor algorithm; TSP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867972837     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00195-0     Document Type: Article

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