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The Multi-Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP) is a commonly used mathematical model for multi-agent task allocation. However, as the number of agents and task targets increases, existing optimization-based methods often incur prohibitive…

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A number of intriguing decision scenarios revolve around partitioning a collection of objects to optimize some application specific objective function. This problem is generally referred to as the Object Partitioning Problem (OPP) and is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Sondre Glimsdal , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the classic and hard problems in combinatorial optimization. We develop a new heuristic that uses a connection between Minimum Cost Flow Problems and the TSP to improve on a given suboptimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Steffen Borgwardt , Zachary Sorenson

We present a new approximation algorithm for the (metric) prize-collecting traveling salesperson problem (PCTSP). In PCTSP, opposed to the classical traveling salesperson problem (TSP), one may not include a vertex of the input graph in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jannis Blauth , Martin Nägele

This paper addresses the challenge of planning a sequence of tasks to be performed by multiple robots while minimizing the overall completion time subject to timing and precedence constraints. Our approach uses the Timed Partial Orders…

The famous Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an important category of optimization problems that is mostly encountered in various areas of science and engineering. Studying optimization problems motivates to develop advanced techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Karthik Srinivasan , Saipriya Satyajit , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where the node set is partitioned into clusters, and the objective is to find the shortest cycle visiting each cluster…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Mohammad Reihaneh , Daniel Karapetyan

A fundamental variant of the classical traveling salesman problem (TSP) is the so-called multiple TSP (mTSP), where a set of $m$ salesmen jointly visit all cities from a set of $n$ cities. The mTSP models many important real-life…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Matthias Mnich , Roland Vincze

The world is connected through the Internet. As the abundance of Internet users connected into the Web and the popularity of cloud computing research, the need of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is demanding. In this research, Genetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Aryo Pinandito , Novanto Yudistira , Fajar Pradana

We present an approximation algorithm for the Prize-collecting Ordered Traveling Salesman Problem (PCOTSP), which simultaneously generalizes the Prize-collecting TSP and the Ordered TSP. The Prize-collecting TSP is well-studied and has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Morteza Alimi , Tobias Mömke , Michael Ruderer

The Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem (MT-TSP) seeks a trajectory that intercepts several moving targets, within a particular time window for each target. When generic nonlinear target trajectories or kinematic constraints on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Bhaskar Vundurthy , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

In recent years, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have frequently been adopted to evolve instances for optimization problems that pose difficulties for one algorithm while being rather easy for a competitor and vice versa. Typically, this is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jakob Bossek , Markus Wagner

We show that the Unconstrained Traveling Tournament Problem (UTTP) is APX-complete by presenting an L-reduction from a version of metric (1,2)-TSP to UTTP. Keywords: Traveling Tournament Problem, APX-complete, Approximation algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Salomon Bendayan , Joseph Cheriyan , Kevin K. H. Cheung

Traditional Learning-To-Rank (LETOR) approaches, including pairwise methods like RankNet and LambdaMART, often fall short by solely focusing on pairwise comparisons, leading to sub-optimal global rankings. Conversely, deep learning based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Weixian Waylon Li , Yftah Ziser , Yifei Xie , Shay B. Cohen , Tiejun Ma

Using an enhanced Self-Organizing Map method, we provided suboptimal solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem. Besides, we employed hyperparameter tuning to identify the most critical features in the algorithm. All improvements in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Joao P. A. Dantas , Andre N. Costa , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo , Takashi Yoneyama

The moving target traveling salesman problem with obstacles (MT-TSP-O) is a generalization of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) where, as its name suggests, the targets are moving. A solution to the MT-TSP-O is a trajectory that visits…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Bhaskar Vundurthy , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Next-day delivery logistics services are redefining the industry by increasingly focusing on customer service. A challenge each logistics service provider faces is to jointly optimize time window assignment and vehicle routing for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Sifa Celik , Layla Martin , Albert H. Schrotenboer , Tom Van Woensel

This study addresses the Min-Max Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem ($m^3$-TSP), which aims to coordinate tours for multiple salesmen such that the length of the longest tour is minimized. Due to its NP-hard nature, exact solvers become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wen Wang , Xiangchen Wu , Liang Wang , Hao Hu , Xianping Tao , Linghao Zhang

Recent works using deep learning to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) have focused on learning construction heuristics. Such approaches find TSP solutions of good quality but require additional procedures such as beam search and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Paulo R. de O. da Costa , Jason Rhuggenaath , Yingqian Zhang , Alp Akcay

In the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a list of cities and the distances between them are given. The goal is to find the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the original city. The TSP has a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Johnny Seay , Edwin Gonzalez , Stephen Lowe , Jesse Crawford , Bryant Wyatt