arXiv (Cornell University)
Speed-up of Self-Organizing Networks for Routing Problems in a Polygonal Domain
July 2017 • Miroslav Kulich, Roman Sushkov, Libor Přeučil
Routing problems are optimization problems that consider a set of goals in a graph to be visited by a vehicle (or a fleet of them) in an optimal way, while numerous constraints have to be satisfied. We present a solution based on multidimensional scaling which significantly reduces computational time of a self-organizing neural network solving a typical routing problem -- the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) in a polygonal domain, i.e. in a space where obstacles are represented by polygons. The preliminary result…