If the computation of each path were to take one microsecond in the travelling salesman problem, then trying to solve the problem using brute force becomes practically impossible beyond perhaps 12 ...

With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

And even the most unrelenting brute-force attack on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) might not be enough. Finding the shortest way around a 33-city route would require calculating the distances ...

The Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickups and Deliveries (TSPPD) consists in designing a minimum cost tour that starts at the depot, provides either a pickup or delivery service to each of the ...