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 ...

The Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickups and Deliveries (TSPPD) consists in designing a minimum cost tour that starts at the depot, provides either a pickup or delivery service to each of the ...

We need to understand how they can solve the Travelling Salesman Problem without a computer. What short-cuts do they use?' Story Source: Materials provided by University of Royal Holloway London.

The most efficient path that visits each of 2 million stars just once We have found the best path to take between the stars. The travelling salesman problem, an infamous mathematical puzzle that ...