Download or read book The Traveling Salesman Problem and Its Variations written by G. Gutin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant treatment of a knotty problem in computing. This volume contains chapters written by reputable researchers and provides the state of the art in theory and algorithms for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). The book covers all important areas of study on TSP, including polyhedral theory for symmetric and asymmetric TSP, branch and bound, and branch and cut algorithms, probabilistic aspects of TSP, and includes a thorough computational analysis of heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms.