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The traveling salesman (or salesperson) problem, short TSP, is a problem of strong interest to many researchers from mathematics, economics, and computer science. Manifold TSP variants occur in nearly every scientific field and application…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Sophia Saller , Jana Koehler , Andreas Karrenbauer

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is the most popular and most studied combinatorial problem, starting with von Neumann in 1951. It has driven the discovery of several optimization techniques such as cutting planes, branch-and-bound,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent

It was the problem of finding the minimum value of the sum of the distances of the path through all cities Overview TSP. We propose an authentication with the problem that the deformation sum of the distances of the path to be a constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yoshihiro Terasawa

The Steiner Multicycle problem consists of, given a complete graph, a weight function on its vertices, and a collection of pairwise disjoint non-unitary sets called terminal sets, finding a minimum weight collection of vertex-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Cristina G. Fernandes , Carla N. Lintzmayer , Phablo F. S. Moura

This paper considers pairs of optimization problems that are defined from a single input and for which it is desired to find a good approximation to either one of the problems. In many instances, it is possible to efficiently find an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-11 David Eppstein

We study the approximability of two related problems on graphs with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges: $n$-Pairs Shortest Paths ($n$-PSP), where the goal is to find a shortest path between $O(n)$ prespecified pairs, and All Node Shortest Cycles…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

In this paper, an iterative algorithm is designed to compute the sparse graphs for traveling salesman problem (TSP) according to the frequency quadrilaterals so that the computation time of the algorithms for TSP will be lowered. At each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Yong Wang , Jeffrey Remmel

This paper introduces the \emph{$d$-distance matching problem}, in which we are given a bipartite graph $G=(S,T;E)$ with $S=\{s_1,\dots,s_n\}$, a weight function on the edges and an integer $d\in\mathbb Z_+$. The goal is to find a maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Péter Madarasi

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

We present a framework for efficiently solving Approximate Traveling Salesman Problem (Approximate TSP) for Quantum Computing Models. Existing representations of TSP introduce extra states which do not correspond to any permutation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debabrata Goswami , Harish Karnick , Prateek Jain , Hemanta K. Maji

Suppose that we are given an arbitrary graph $G=(V, E)$ and know that each edge in $E$ is going to be realized independently with some probability $p$. The goal in the stochastic matching problem is to pick a sparse subgraph $Q$ of $G$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

Nowadays, frequent pattern mining (FPM) on large graphs receives increasing attention, since it is crucial to a variety of applications, e.g., social analysis. Informally, the FPM problem is defined as finding all the patterns in a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Xin Wang , Zhuo Lan , Yu-Ang He , Yang Wang , Zhi-Gui Liu , Wen-Bo Xie

We consider the Shallow-Light Steiner Network problem from a fixed-parameter perspective. Given a graph $G$, a distance bound $L$, and $p$ pairs of vertices $(s_1,t_1),\cdots,(s_p,t_p)$, the objective is to find a minimum-cost subgraph $G'$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Amy Babay , Michael Dinitz , Zeyu Zhang

We consider the problem of designing sublinear time algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum metric traveling salesman (TSP) tour. Specifically, given access to a $n \times n$ distance matrix $D$ that specifies pairwise distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yu Chen , Sampath Kannan , Sanjeev Khanna

One of the most studied extensions of the famous Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is the {\sc Multiple TSP}: a set of $m\geq 1$ salespersons collectively traverses a set of $n$ cities by $m$ non-trivial tours, to minimize the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Max Deppert , Matthias Kaul , Matthias Mnich

Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem, a fundamental problem in computer science. In the classic Steiner Tree problem, we aim to connect a set of vertices known as terminals using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ali Ahmadi , Iman Gholami , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Mohammad Mahdavi

The graph similarity problem, also known as approximate graph isomorphism or graph matching problem, has been extensively studied in the machine learning community, but has not received much attention in the algorithms community: Given two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Martin Grohe , Gaurav Rattan , Gerhard J. Woeginger

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well known and challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. Its computational intractability has attracted a number of heuristic approaches to generate satisfactory, if not optimal, candidate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-03-27 Jeff Jones , Andrew Adamatzky

The diameter, radius and eccentricities are natural graph parameters. While these problems have been studied extensively, there are no known dynamic algorithms for them beyond the ones that follow from trivial recomputation after each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bertie Ancona , Monika Henzinger , Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy