TSPSEARCH

Heuristic method for Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).

% [P,L] = TSPSEARCH(X,M) gives a tour P of length L. X is either a
% coordinate matrix of size Nx2 or Nx3 or a symmetric distance matrix.
% Euclidian distances are used in the coordinate case. M is an integer
% in the range 1 to N. Default is M = 1.
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% METHOD
% M nearest neighbour tours are generated from randomly selected starting
% points. Each tour is improved by 2-opt heuristics (pairwise exchange of
% edges) and the best result is selected.
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% EXAMPLES
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% X = rand(100,2);
% [p,L] = tspsearch(X,100);
% tspplot(p,X)
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% % Optimal tour length 1620
% X = load('hex162.dat');
% [p,L] = tspsearch(X,10);
% tspplot(p,X)