A 'branch and bound' algorithm is presented for solving the traveling salesman problem. The set of all tours (feasible solutions) is broken up into increasingly small subsets by a procedure called ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses full code samples to detail an evolutionary algorithm technique that apparently hasn't been published before. The goal of a combinatorial optimization ...

The time-constrained traveling salesman problem is a variation of the familiar traveling salesman problem that includes time window constraints on the time a particular city, or cities, may be visited ...