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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Data for Travelling Salesman Prob Wanted...
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1993Jan21.114216.1196@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:58:52 GMT
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- Here is some background information on state-of-the-art traveling
- salesman problem solvers:
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- William Cook of Bellcore found an *optimum* TSP solution for a 3038
- node circuit board with 1.5 cpu years of computer time.
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- David Johnson of ATT Bell Labs found a provably-within-2%-of-optimum
- TSP solution for a millon cities in less than 3 cpu hours.
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- [Source: _Discover_ magazine, Jan. 1992, p 91]
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- (I don't believe either researcher is using artficial neural net.)
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- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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