This paper presents a constraint logic programming model for the traveling salesman problem with time windows which yields an exact branch-and-bound optimization algorithm without any restrictive ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1: Simulated Annealing to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem. This article assumes you have an intermediate or better familiarity with a C-family programming ...

Determining the precise integrality gap for the subtour linear programming (LP) relaxation of the traveling salesman problem is a significant open question, with little progress made in thirty years ...