{"title":"Solving vehicle routing problems using elastic nets","authors":"Andrew Vakhutinsky, B. Golden","doi":"10.1109/ICNN.1994.375004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using neural networks to find an approximate solution to difficult optimization problems is a very attractive prospect. The traveling salesman problem (TSP), probably the best-known problem in combinatorial optimization, has been attacked by a variety of neural network approaches. The main purpose of this paper is to show how elastic network ideas can be applied to two TSP generalizations: the multiple traveling salesmen problem (MTSP) and the vehicle routing problem (VRP).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":209128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'94)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"56","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'94)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNN.1994.375004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using neural networks to find an approximate solution to difficult optimization problems is a very attractive prospect. The traveling salesman problem (TSP), probably the best-known problem in combinatorial optimization, has been attacked by a variety of neural network approaches. The main purpose of this paper is to show how elastic network ideas can be applied to two TSP generalizations: the multiple traveling salesmen problem (MTSP) and the vehicle routing problem (VRP).<>