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The travelling purchaser problem, the vehicle routing problem and the ring star problem [1] are three generalizations of TSP. The decision version of the TSP (where given a length L, the task is to decide whether the graph has a tour whose length is at most L) belongs to the class of NP-complete problems.
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As of December 31, 2023, TSP has approximately 7 million participants (of which approximately 4.1 million are actively participating through payroll deductions), and more than $845.4 billion in assets under management; [1] it purports to be the largest defined contribution plan in the world.
Moreover, for each number of cities there is an assignment of distances between the cities for which the nearest neighbour heuristic produces the unique worst possible tour. (If the algorithm is applied on every vertex as the starting vertex, the best path found will be better than at least N/2-1 other tours, where N is the number of vertices.) [1]
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The Steiner traveling salesman problem (Steiner TSP, or STSP) is an extension of the traveling salesman problem. Given a list of cities, some of which are required, and the lengths of the roads between them, the goal is to find the shortest possible walk that visits each required city and then returns to the origin city. [ 1 ]
The cost of the solution produced by the algorithm is within 3/2 of the optimum. To prove this, let C be the optimal traveling salesman tour. Removing an edge from C produces a spanning tree, which must have weight at least that of the minimum spanning tree, implying that w(T) ≤ w(C) - lower bound to the cost of the optimal solution.
The Concorde TSP Solver is a program for solving the travelling salesman problem. It was written by David Applegate , Robert E. Bixby , Vašek Chvátal , and William J. Cook , in ANSI C , and is freely available for academic use.