Title

Using Concurrent Programming method to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

Overview

This project will focus on how to use concurrent programming methods to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, which has been proved to be NP-complete.

Papers

N. Toomarian. A Concurrent Neural Network Algorithm for the Travel Salesman Problem. In Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications. Pasadena, 1998. ACM.

Additional reading material

Wilhelm Hasselering. Programming Languages and Systems for Prototyping Concurrent Applications ACM Computing Surveys, 32(1):43-79, March 2000.

Implementation details