Title
A Polynomial-Time Deterministic Approach To The Travelling Salesperson Problem
Abstract
We propose a new polynomial-time deterministic algorithm that produces an approximated solution for the travelling salesperson problem. The proposed algorithm ranks cities based on their priorities calculated using a power function of means and standard deviations of their distances from other cities and then connects the cities to their neighbours in the order of their priorities. When connecting a city, a neighbour is selected based on their neighbours' priorities calculated as another power function that additionally includes their distance from the focal city to be connected. This repeats until all the cities are connected into a single loop. The time complexity of the proposed algorithm is O(n(2)), where n is the number of cities. Numerical evaluation shows that, despite its simplicity, the proposed algorithm produces shorter tours with less time complexity than other conventional tour construction heuristics. The proposed algorithm can be used by itself or as an initial tour generator for other more complex heuristic optimisation algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/17445760.2020.1776867
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PARALLEL EMERGENT AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Travelling salesperson problem, polynomial-time algorithm, deterministic algorithm, approximation
Power function,Heuristics,Travelling salesman problem,Deterministic algorithm,Time complexity,Deterministic system (philosophy),Discrete mathematics,Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Algorithm,Standard deviation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
4
1744-5760
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Jazayeri101.69
Hiroki Sayama231949.14