The Traveling Salesman Problem: A hypothetical salesmen must make a complete tour of a given set of cities in the order that minimizes his total distance traveled
Formulation:
Given a set of n nodes and the coordinates of each node, find a round trip of minimum total length visiting each node exactly once. The distance from node i to node j is the same as from node j to node i (Symmetric TSP).
Problem Specific Notes:
Test Problem: 29 Cities in Bavaria (Groetschel,Juenger,Reinelt)