Discrete heat transfer search for solving travelling salesman problem

Poonam Savsani; Mohamed A. Tawhid

doi:10.3934/mfc.2018012

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2018, Volume 1, Issue 3: 265-280. Doi: 10.3934/mfc.2018012

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Discrete heat transfer search for solving travelling salesman problem

Poonam Savsani^1,2, and
Mohamed A. Tawhid^3, ,

1.
Department of Industrial Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandinagar, Gujarat, India
2.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, ThompsonRivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C 0C8
3.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C 0C8

^* Corresponding author: Mohamed A. Tawhid
^* Corresponding author: Mohamed A. Tawhid

Received: November 2017

Revised: February 2018

Published: July 2018

We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for constructive feedback and insightful suggestions which greatly improved this article. The research of the 2nd author is supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The postdoctoral fellowship of the 1^st author is supported by NSERC.

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Within the academic circle the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), this is one of the most major NP-hard problems that have been a primary topic of discussion for years. Developing efficient algorithms to solve TSP have been the goal of many individuals, and so this has been addressed efficiently in this article. Here, a discrete heat transfer search (DHTS) is proposed to solve TSP. DHTS uses three distinct phases to update the city tours namely, conduction, convection, and radiation. Each phase performs a certain function as the conduction phase is a replica of the 2-Opt local search technique, the convection phase exchanges the random city with the finest city tour, and the radiation phase exchanges the random city among two separate city tours without compromising the basics of HTS algorithm. Bench test problems taken from TSPLIB successfully test the algorithm and demonstrate the fact that the proposed algorithm can attain results near the optimal values, and do so within an acceptable duration.

Keywords:

Ravelling salesman problems,
discrete heat transfer search algorithm,
NP-hard,
combinatorial optimization problem,
meta-heuristic.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 68R01, 68T20, 68W20, 90B15, 90C56.

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Figure 1. Comparison of obtained best solutions with the known optimum solutions

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Figure 2. Comparisons of mean value to the known best solutions

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Figure 3. The percentage deviation for the mean and the best solutions

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Figure 4. The Graphical representation of the comparisons between the proposed DHTS and DIWO [51]

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Table 1. Results of the DHTS algorithm for symmetric TSP instances from TSPLIB

TSP	best	worst	mean	std	pDbest%	pDavg%	Optimal
eil51	426	428	426.5	0.707107	0	0.117371	426
berlin52	7542	7542	7542	0	0	0	7542
st70	675	675	675	0	0	0	675
pr76	108159	108159	108159	0	0	0	108159
eil76	538	541	538.7	1.05935	0	0.130112	538
kroA100	21282	21282	21282	0	0	0	21282
kroB100	22141	22272	22181.2	48.6091	0	0.181564	22141
kroC100	20749	20769	20751.4	6.310485	0	0.011567	20749
kroD100	21294	21390.74	21329.86	40.56808	0	0.168416	21294
kroE100	22068	22146.06	22099.21	33.72459	0	0.141432	22068
eil101	629	641	631.1	3.928528	0	0.333863	629
lin105	14379	14401	14381.2	6.957011	0	0.0153	14379
pr107	44303	44387	44319.8	35.41751	0	0.037921	44303
pr124	59030	59246	59083.6	62.49836	0	0.090801	59030
bier127	118282	118728	118502	195.1689	0	0.185996	118282
ch130	6111	6174	6138.7	15.78361	0.016367	0.469722	6110
pr136	96830	97785	97341.6	290.5234	0.059935	0.5886	96772
pr144	58537	58590	58544	17.02286	0	0.011958	58537
ch150	6528	6555	6543.7	10.56251	0	0.240502	6528
kroA150	26524	26670	26585.3	51.37671	0	0.231111	26524
kroB150	26141	26239	26187.9	37.07485	0.042097	0.221584	26130
pr152	73682	73818	73736.4	70.2301	0	0.073831	73682
rat195	2332	2344	2337	3.972125	0.38743	0.602669	2323
d198	15789	15867	15832	19.94437	0.057034	0.329531	15780
kroA200	29375	29483	29418.6	39.05324	0.023835	0.172296	29368
kroB200	29470	29618	29522.2	42.52529	0.112104	0.289432	29437
ts225	126643	127077	126802.3	158.4326	0	0.125787	126643
tsp225	3916	3940	3926.5	7.877535	0	0.268131	3916
pr226	80369	80652	80443.9	101.4062	0	0.093195	80369
gil262	2380	2401	2390.3	6.733828	0.084104	0.517241	2378
pr264	49135	49382	49184	103.3054	0	0.099725	49135
a280	2579	2608	2583.4	8.896941	0	0.170609	2579
pr299	48266	48481	48323.7	71.55736	0.155631	0.275363	48191
lin318	42171	42506	42351.1	112.7893	0.337862	0.766376	42029
rd400	15400	15521	15447.4	43.6379	0.778745	1.088934	15281
fl417	11876	11895	11886.9	6.590397	0.126465	0.218363	11861
pr439	107682	107998	107733.6	95.59312	0.4337	0.481827	107217
rat575	6845	6907	6855.2	18.37752	1.063044	1.213642	6773
rat783	8941	8956	8946.7	4.715224	1.533046	1.597774	8806
pr1002	262385	264241	263159.6	636.4372	1.289351	1.588373	259045
nrw1379	57724	57950	57846.8	57.97662	1.917441	2.134256	56638

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Table 2. Comparison of average tours of DHTS with other state of the art algorithms for different TSP cases

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Table 3. Comparison of DHTS with neuro-immune network [34], GCGA with local search [48], Massutti and Castro's method [29], GSA ant-colony system with PSO [3], HGA [46], ACE [9] and improved BA [31]

TSP	Optimm	DHTS	neuro immune network(Pasti, & Castro, 2006)	GCGA with local search(Yang et al., 2008)	Massutti and Castro's method, (2009)	GSA ant-colony system with PSO(Chen & Chien, 2011)	HGA(Wang, 2014)	ACE(Escario et al., 2015)	improved BA(Osaba et al., 2016)
eil51	426	426.5	438.7	430	437.47	427.27	429.19	426.818	428.1
berlin52	7542	7542	8073.97		7932.5	7542	7544.37	7543.04	7542
st70	675	675		678			677.39	676.418	679.1
pr76	108159	108159		108942			108255.94	108251
eil76	538	538.7	556.1	551	556.33	540.2	546.06	538.311	548.1
kroA100	21282	21282	21868.47	21543	21522.73	21370.47	21312.45	21298.6	21445.3
kroB100	22141	22181.2	22853.6	22542	22661.47	22282.87			22506.4
kroC100	20749	20751.4	21231.6	21025	20971.23	20878.97	20812.22		21050
kroD100	21294	21329.8626	22027.87	21809	21697.37	21620.47	21344.67		21593.4
kroE100	22068	22099.2113	22815.5	22379	22715.63	22183.47			22349.6
eil101	629	631.1	654.83	646	648.63	635.23	644.82	633.619	646.4
lin105	14379	14381.2	14702.23	14544	14400.17	14406.37	14422.89	14385.5
pr107	44303	44319.8		44909			44341.67		44793.8
pr124	59030	59083.6		59141			59094.13		59412.1
bier127	118282	118502	121780.33	120412	120886.33	119421.83
ch130	6110	6138.7	6231.77		6282.4	6205.63	6130.277	6153.96
pr136	96772	97341.6		99505			97019.291		99351.2
pr144	58537	58544		58564			58537.22		58876.2
ch150	6528	6543.7	6753.2		6738.37		6557.69	6550
kroA150	26524	26585.3	27346.43	27298	27355.97	26899.2	26597.78
kroB150	26130	26187.9	26752.13	26682	26631.87	26448.33	26335.85
pr152	73682	73736.4		74582			73765.7	73766.8	74676.9
rat195	2323	2337		2420			2356.02
d198	15780	15832		16084			15963	15813.3
kroA200	29368	29418.6	30257.53	29910	30190.27	29738.73	29458.809
kroB200	29437	29522.2	30415.6	30627	30135	30035.23	29583.38
ts225	126643	126802.3		128016			128295.65
tsp225	3916	3926.5					3892.88
pr226	80369	80443.9		80969			80534.39
gil262	2378	2390.3		2515
pr264	49135	49184		50344			49163.26		50908.3
pr299	48191	48323.7		50812			49757.66		49674.1
lin318	42029	42351.1	43704.97	44191	43696.87	43002.9	42877.24
rd400	15281	15447.4		16420			16143.96
fl417	11861	11886.9		12243
pr439	107217	107733.6		113787			111209.97
rat575	6773	6855.2	7125		7115.67	6933.87
rat783	8806	8946.7	9326		9343.77	9079.23

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Table 4. DHTS comparison with DIWO [51]

TSP	PD % average
TSP	DIWO (Zhou et al., 2015)	Proposed DHTS
eil51	0.6999	0.117371
berlin52	0.0313	0
st70	0.3125	0
kroA100	0.0375	0
kroB100	0.8816	0.181564
pr107	0.4837	0.037921
pr136	0.94	0.5886
kroA150	0.778	0.231111
kroB150	0.3229	0.221584
d198	0.6691	0.329531
tsp225	2.3949	0.268131
pr226	0.2238	0.093195
rd400	2.4229	1.088934
pr1002	3.1873	1.588373

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