projects of interest? - mebot

Tim Newsom cephdon at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 22:40:58 CEST 2007


On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:10, Mark Rossman wrote:
> First off I think the largest amount of time would be to calculate the
> distance between each possible combination of points, and I think most
> people wouldn't really have that many points anyway.  Now if UPS
> decides to offload their routing onto the cell phones of their drivers
> it would take forever, but most people don't really go that many
> places.
>
> Also if you set up the software to solve the TSP problem as an IP,
> then used the LP relaxation as your actual problem you would greatly
> reduce computation time, and get a list of possible next stops ordered
> based on their weight, most of the time it would give you a near
> optimal solution.
>

I think you said that much better than I did.
--Tim




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