Title
TSP with neighborhoods of varying size.
Abstract
In TSP with neighborhoods (TSPN) we are given a collection S of regions in the plane, called neighborhoods, and we seek the shortest tour that visits all neighborhoods. Until now constant-factor approximation algorithms have been known only for cases where the neighborhoods are of approximately the same size. In this paper we present the first polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm for disjoint convex fat neighborhoods of arbitrary size. We also show that in the general case, where the neighborhoods can overlap and are not required to be convex or fat, TSPN is APX-hard and cannot be approximated within a factor of 391/390 in polynomial time, unless P=NP.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.jalgor.2005.01.010
Journal of Algorithms
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computational geometry,Approximation algorithms,TSP with neighborhoods
Journal
57
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0196-6774
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark De Berg11497153.24
Joachim Gudmundsson21362100.81
Matthew J. Katz322519.92
Christos Levcopoulos475984.69
Mark H. Overmars54572518.80
A. Frank Van Der Stappen6106984.44