Use of optical hardware to find good solutions to the traveling salesman problem

Neil Collings; R. Sumi; Kenneth J. Weible; Bruno D. Acklin; Wei Xue

doi:10.1117/12.147887

12 July 1993 Use of optical hardware to find good solutions to the traveling salesman problem

Neil Collings, R. Sumi, Kenneth J. Weible, Bruno D. Acklin, Wei Xue

Proceedings Volume 1806, Optical Computing; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147887
Event: Topical Meeting on Optical Computing, 1992, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

A systems is described which finds solutions to the 6-city TSP using a Kohonen-type network. The system shows robustness with regard to the light intensity fluctuations and weight discretization which have been simulated. Scalability to larger size problems appears straightforward.

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Neil Collings, R. Sumi, Kenneth J. Weible, Bruno D. Acklin, and Wei Xue "Use of optical hardware to find good solutions to the traveling salesman problem", Proc. SPIE 1806, Optical Computing, (12 July 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147887

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