Abstract:
A problem of visiting megalopolises with a fixed number of “entrances” and precedence relations defined in a special way is studied. The problem is a natural generalization of the classical traveling salesman problem. For finding an optimal solution we give a dynamic programming scheme, which is equivalent to a method of finding a shortest path in an appropriate acyclic oriented weighted graph. We justify conditions under which the complexity of the algorithm depends on the number of megalopolises polynomially, in particular, linearly.
Citation:
A. G. Chentsov, M. Yu. Khachai, M. Yu. Khachai, “An exact algorithm with linear complexity for a problem of visiting megalopolises”, Trudy Inst. Mat. i Mekh. UrO RAN, 21, no. 3, 2015, 309–317; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. (Suppl.), 295, suppl. 1 (2016), 38–46