AN EXACT ALGORITHM FOR THE CLOSE ENOUGH TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM WITH ARC COVERING CONSTRAINTS

Minh Hoang Ha, Nathalie Bostel, André Langevin, Louis-Martin Rousseau

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a problem still seldom studied in the literature, the Close Enough Traveling Salesman problem with covering constraints on the arcs. This problem arises in the context of utility companies that use automated meter reading (AMR) with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to read meters from a distance. The contribution of this paper is to introduce a new mathematical formulation and to propose a first exact algorithm for this problem. Computational results show that our algorithm is capable of solving to optimality instances of realistic size, such as those introduced in (Golden et al., 2008), with 1000 arcs and 9000 customers in less than 2 hours.

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Hoang Ha M., Bostel N., Langevin A. and Rousseau L. (2012). AN EXACT ALGORITHM FOR THE CLOSE ENOUGH TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM WITH ARC COVERING CONSTRAINTS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-8425-97-3, pages 233-238. DOI: 10.5220/0003698702330238


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores12,
author={Minh Hoang Ha and Nathalie Bostel and André Langevin and Louis-Martin Rousseau},
title={AN EXACT ALGORITHM FOR THE CLOSE ENOUGH TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM WITH ARC COVERING CONSTRAINTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2012},
pages={233-238},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003698702330238},
isbn={978-989-8425-97-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - AN EXACT ALGORITHM FOR THE CLOSE ENOUGH TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM WITH ARC COVERING CONSTRAINTS
SN - 978-989-8425-97-3
AU - Hoang Ha M.
AU - Bostel N.
AU - Langevin A.
AU - Rousseau L.
PY - 2012
SP - 233
EP - 238
DO - 10.5220/0003698702330238