Figure 1: Traveling Salesman Problem Using an Evolutionary Algorithm in Action This article assumes you have intermediate or better programming skill but doesn't assume you know anything about ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 29, No. 7 (Jul., 1978), pp. 697-701 (5 pages) The paper describes a heuristic algorithm for the asymmetric travelling salesman problem. The ...

The traveling-salesman problem is a generalized form of the simple problem to find the smallest closed loop that connects a number of points in a plane. Efforts in the past to find an efficient method ...

Forget GPS. With no fancy maps or even brains, immune system cells can solve a simple version of the traveling-salesman problem, a computational conundrum that has vexed mathematicians for decades.

The task is the long-standing challenge known as the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short. Finding a method that can quickly solve every example of the TSP would be a stunning breakthrough ...

According to the university, this is “something that would take about 1,200 years for a high-performance von Neumann CPU”, but the chip “can solve the travelling salesman problem for 22 cities ...

Flying Math: Bees Solve Traveling Salesman Problem Bumblebees foraging in flowers for nectar are like salesmen traveling between towns: Both seek the optimal route to minimize their travel costs.

This is known, in the field of mathematics, as the travelling salesman problem. To solve it for more than a handful of "stops," it will almost certainly require a quantum computer. Here's why.