tsp_brute


tsp_brute, a Python code which solves small versions of the traveling salesman problem, using brute force.

The user must prepare a file beforehand, containing the city-to-city distances. The program will request the name of this file, and then read it in. An example of such a file is:

        0  3  4  2  7
        3  0  4  6  3
        4  4  0  5  8
        2  6  5  0  6
        7  3  8  6  0
      

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

tsp_brute is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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tsp, a dataset directory which contains test data for the traveling salesperson problem;

Reference:

  1. Gerhard Reinelt,
    TSPLIB - A Traveling Salesman Problem code,
    ORSA Journal on Computing,
    Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1991, pages 376-384.

Source Code:


Last revised on 10 November 2018.