Since its first description in the year 1930, the Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most prominent examples of combinatorial optimization. It asks for the shortest Hamiltonian cycle on a complete, symmetric graph.
In the first part of this thesis, basic methods for solving this problem are presented. These include the two heuristics nearest-neighbor and multiple-fragment. Representing exact algorithms, a Lagrangian relaxation method based on 1-trees is examined in connection with a branch-and-bound algorithm.
These methods are part of the web application, which was developed during the creation of this thesis and is described in the second part. It is meant to depict the presented algorithms in order to give students an understanding of combinatorial optimization methods. The application therefore uses state-of-the-art web-based technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery.
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Since its first description in the year 1930, the Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most prominent examples of combinatorial optimization. It asks for the shortest Hamiltonian cycle on a complete, symmetric graph.
In the first part of this thesis, basic methods for solving this problem are presented. These include the two heuristics nearest-neighbor and multiple-fragment. Representing exact algorithms, a Lagrangian relaxation method based on 1-trees is examined in connection with a branc...
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