6.4 TSP Using Branch and Bound
6.4 TSP Using Branch and Bound
UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF
ENGINEERING
COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Engineering
Design and Analysis of
Algorithms(CST-311/ITT-311)
Outcome:
• Student will understand
Traveling Salesman Problem using Branch And Bound
Problem Definition:
•TSP includes a salesperson who has to visit a number of
cities during a tour & the condition is to visit all the cities
exactly once and return back to the same city where the
person started.
5. To find the next E-node, find the least cost valued node by
calculating the reduced cost matrix with every node.
8. Repeat the above steps for all the nodes until all the
nodes are generated and we get a path.
REFERENCES
Text books:
•Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein, “Introduction to Algorithms”, Prentice Hall of
India, 3rd edition 2012. problem, Graph coloring.
Summary