Computing the variance of tour costs over the solution space of the TSP in polynomial time

Paul Sutcliffe (), Andrew Solomon () and Jenny Edwards ()

Computational Optimization and Applications, 2012, vol. 53, issue 3, 728 pages

Abstract: We give an O(n 2 ) time algorithm to find the population variance of tour costs over the solution space of the n city symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The algorithm has application in both the stochastic case, where the problem is specified in terms of edge costs which are pairwise independently distributed random variables with known mean and variance, and the numeric edge cost case. We apply this result to provide empirical evidence that, in a range of real world problem sets, the optimal tour cost correlates with a simple function of the mean and variance of tour costs. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: Traveling salesman problem; Stochastic; Moments; Variance; Statistics; Probabilistic; Landscapes; Hamiltonian cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10589-012-9472-0

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