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An Empirical Study of the Multi-fragment Tour Construction Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem

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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2016) (HIS 2016)

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This paper proposes a detailed study of the Multi-Fragment (MF) tour construction (TC) algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). This TC heuristic is based on an edge selection strategy which favors edges with the smallest cost under the constraint to have a feasible tour. Extensive computational experiments have been performed on benchmark instances from the literature. The results show that the studied algorithm generally outperforms other constructive heuristics for the TSP.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Mehdi El Krari, Belaïd Ahiod & Bouazza El Benani

  2. Computer Science Laboratory, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Mehdi El Krari & Bouazza El Benani

  3. LRIT, Associated Unit to CNRST (URAC 29), Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Belaïd Ahiod

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El Krari, M., Ahiod, B., El Benani, B. (2017). An Empirical Study of the Multi-fragment Tour Construction Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem. In: Abraham, A., Haqiq, A., Alimi, A., Mezzour, G., Rokbani, N., Muda, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2016). HIS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52941-7_28

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