Minimum spanning tree based heuristic, JAVA Programming

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Problem description: A travelling salesman wants to make a tour of the cities and returns back to the starting point. What is the minimum length tour?

  • Formal Definition:

o   Input: A set S = {P1, P2, ..., Pn} of n points representing the locations of n cities. The coordinates of Pi is (xi, yi). For simplicity, the coordinates xi and  yi are integers in [0..1000), i.e.,  0  ≤ xi, yi  ≤ 999, i= 1,2,..,n. The distance between Pi and Pj is defined as |xi- xj|+|yi- yj|.

o    Output: A TSP tour that starts from P1, visit all the cities (Pi, i=2,3..,n) and return back to starting point P1

o    Objective: Minimize the total length of the TSP tour.

HEURISTICS

  • Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) Based Heuristic
  1. Construct a MST, T, for the points in S from starting point P1;
  2. Traverse around T to get the initial TSP tour for S;
  3. Exploit the triangular inequality and remove unnecessary visits in the TSP tour.
  4. Compute the length of the tour.
  • Nearest Neighbour Heuristic
  1. current position ← P1;
  2. Loop for n-1 steps
  1. At each step, choose to visit next the city that is closest to the current position;
  2. Update the current position;

o   Including the closing edge (back to P1) in the tour;

o   Compute the length of the tour.

TASKS

1.  Implement the MST Based Heuristic;

2.  Implement the Nearest Neighbour Heuristic;

3.  Implement a function, randomSetGenerator that will generate a set of random points on the L1-metric Plane.

4.  Conduct the following experiment for n=100

o   Repeat the following for 10 times

§   Call randomSetGenerator to generate a set S of n random points.

  • Feed S to the MST Based Heuristic. Record the length of the tour and the execution time.
  • Feed S to the Nearest Neighbour Heuristic. Record the length of the tour and the execution time.

o   Compute the average length of the tour and the average execution time for the MST Based Heuristic.

o   Compute the average length of the tour and the average execution time for the Nearest Neighbour Heuristic.

5.  Repeat the above experiments for n = 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000. Collect the statistics (average length of the tour and average execution time) from the experiments. Compare the two heuristics in term of the average length of the tour and average execution time. 

 


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