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The Thief Orienteering Problem (ThOP) is a multi-component problem that combines features of two classic combinatorial optimization problems: Orienteering Problem and Knapsack Problem. The ThOP is challenging due to the given time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jonatas B. C. Chagas , Markus Wagner

The travelling thief problem (TTP) is a representative of multi-component optimisation problems with interacting components. TTP combines the knapsack problem (KP) and the travelling salesman problem (TSP). A thief performs a cyclic tour…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Majid Namazi , Conrad Sanderson , M. A. Hakim Newton , Abdul Sattar

The Traveling Thief Problem (TTP) is a multi-component optimization problem that captures the interplay between routing and packing decisions by combining the classical Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) and the Knapsack Problem (KP). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Heiko Röglin

The Travelling Thief Problem (TTP) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that attracts many scholars. The TTP interconnects two well-known NP-hard problems: the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and the 0-1 Knapsack Problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lei Yang , Zitong Zhang , Xiaotian Jia , Peipei Kang , Wensheng Zhang , Dongya Wang

A travelling thief problem (TTP) is a proxy to real-life problems such as postal collection. TTP comprises an entanglement of a travelling salesman problem (TSP) and a knapsack problem (KP) since items of KP are scattered over cities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Majid Namazi , M. A. Hakim Newton , Conrad Sanderson , Abdul Sattar

In this paper, we propose a method to solve a bi-objective variant of the well-studied Traveling Thief Problem (TTP). The TTP is a multi-component problem that combines two classic combinatorial problems: Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jonatas B. C. Chagas , Julian Blank , Markus Wagner , Marcone J. F. Souza , Kalyanmoy Deb

Real-world problems are very difficult to optimize. However, many researchers have been solving benchmark problems that have been extensively investigated for the last decades even if they have very few direct applications. The Traveling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Mohamed El Yafrani , Belaïd Ahiod

The travelling thief problem (TTP) is a multi-component optimisation problem involving two interdependent NP-hard components: the travelling salesman problem (TSP) and the knapsack problem (KP). Recent state-of-the-art TTP solvers modify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Majid Namazi , Conrad Sanderson , M. A. Hakim Newton , Abdul Sattar

Investigation of detailed and complex optimisation problem formulations that reflect realistic scenarios is a burgeoning field of research. A growing body of work exists for the Travelling Thief Problem, including multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Daniel Herring , Michael Kirley , Xin Yao

In real-world optimisation, it is common to face several sub-problems interacting and forming the main problem. There is an inter-dependency between the sub-problems, making it impossible to solve such a problem by focusing on only one…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Adel Nikfarjam , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

While traditional optimization problems were often studied in isolation, many real-world problems today require interdependence among multiple optimization components. The traveling thief problem (TTP) is a multi-component problem that has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Helen Yuliana Angmalisang , Frank Neumann

This research proposes a novel indicator-based hybrid evolutionary approach that combines approximate and exact algorithms. We apply it to a new bi-criteria formulation of the travelling thief problem, which is known to the Evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Junhua Wu , Sergey Polyakovskiy , Markus Wagner , Frank Neumann

Many real-world optimization problems have multiple interacting components. Each of these can be NP-hard and they can be in conflict with each other, i.e., the optimal solution for one component does not necessarily represent an optimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jonatas B. C. Chagas , Markus Wagner

Many evolutionary and constructive heuristic approaches have been introduced in order to solve the Traveling Thief Problem (TTP). However, the accuracy of such approaches is unknown due to their inability to find global optima. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Junhua Wu , Markus Wagner , Sergey Polyakovskiy , Frank Neumann

Many real-world problems are composed of several interacting components. In order to facilitate research on such interactions, the Traveling Thief Problem (TTP) was created in 2013 as the combination of two well-understood combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Markus Wagner , Marius Lindauer , Mustafa Misir , Samadhi Nallaperuma , Frank Hutter

Understanding the interactions between different combinatorial optimisation problems in real-world applications is a challenging task. Recently, the traveling thief problem (TTP), as a combination of the classical traveling salesperson…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Frank Neumann , Sergey Polyakovskiy , Martin Skutella , Leen Stougie , Junhua Wu

The orienteering problem (OP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that seeks a path visiting a subset of locations to maximize collected rewards under a limited resource budget. This article presents a systematic PRISMA-based review of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Songhao Shen , Yufeng Zhou , Qin Lei , Zhibin Wu

This paper presents a new method for solving an orienteering problem (OP) by breaking it down into two parts: a knapsack problem (KP) and a traveling salesman problem (TSP). A KP solver is responsible for picking nodes, while a TSP solver…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Wei Liu , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Kang Yang

The Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is one of the best-known combinatorial optimisation problems. However, many real-world problems are composed of several interacting components. The Traveling Thief Problem (TTP) addresses such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Jakob Bossek , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications for surveillance and data collection, it is not possible to reach all requested locations due to the given maximum flight time. Hence, the requested locations must be prioritized and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Fabian Meyer , Katharina Glock
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