Hysteretic optimization for the traveling salesman problem

Károly F. Pál

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 329, issue 1, 287-297

Abstract: Hysteretic optimization is a recently proposed heuristic optimization method inspired by the demagnetization of magnetic materials by an alternating external field of decreasing amplitude. We demonstrate that its extension to general optimization problems works reasonably well for the traveling salesman problem. We propose an improvement for the general scheme.

Keywords: Optimization; Hysteresis; Traveling salesman problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00597-1

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