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A modified edge recombination operator for the Travelling Salesman Problem

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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN III (PPSN 1994)

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Edge recombination is a crossover operator developed to preserve edge information for the Travelling Salesman Problem. This paper describes a modified version of the operator which converges significantly faster for all the benchmark problems tested.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Anthony Yiu-Cheung Tang & Kwong-Sak Leung

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Yuval Davidor Hans-Paul Schwefel Reinhard Männer

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Yiu-Cheung Tang, A., Leung, KS. (1994). A modified edge recombination operator for the Travelling Salesman Problem. In: Davidor, Y., Schwefel, HP., Männer, R. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN III. PPSN 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58484-6_262

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