Complexity Indices for the Traveling Salesman Problem Continued


Dragoš Cvetković, Zorica Dražić, Vera Kovačević-Vujčić




We consider the symmetric traveling salesman problem (TSP) with instances represented by complete graphs $G$ with distances between cities as edge weights. A complexity index is an invariant of an instance $I$ by which we predict the execution time of an exact TSP algorithm for $I$. In the paper [5] we have considered some short edge sub-graphs of G and defined several new invariants related to their connected components. Extensive computational experiments with instances on 50 vertices with the uniform distribution of integer edge weights in the interval [1,100] show that there exists correlation between the sequences of selected invariants and the sequence of execution times of the well-known TSP Solver Concorde. In this paper we extend these considerations for instances up to 100 vertices.