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Approximating the asymmetric profitable tour

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Approximating the asymmetric profitable tour
Abstract We study the version of the asymmetric prize collecting traveling salesman problem, where the objective is to find a directed tour that visits a subset of vertices such that the length of the tour plus the sum of penalties associated with vertices not in the tour is as small as possible. In [3], the authors defined it as the Profitable Tour Problem (PTP). We present an (1 + log(n))-approximation algorithm for the asymmetric PTP with n is the vertex number. The algorithm that is based on Frieze et al.'s heuristic for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem as well as a method to round fractional solutions of a linear programming relaxation to integers (feasible solution for the original problem), represents a directed version of the Bienstock et al.'s [2] algorithm for the symmetric PTP.
Viet Hung Nguyen, Thi Thu Thuy Nguyen
Added 10 Dec 2010
Updated 10 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where ENDM
Authors Viet Hung Nguyen, Thi Thu Thuy Nguyen
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