A QUBO Model for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows

Autor: Theodore Andronikos, Georgia Theocharopoulou, Christos Papalitsas, Sofia Fanarioti, Konstantinos Giannakis
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Algorithms, Vol 12, Iss 11, p 224 (2019)
Algorithms
Volume 12
Issue 11
ISSN: 1999-4893
DOI: 10.3390/a12110224
Popis: This work focuses on expressing the TSP with Time Windows (TSPTW for short) as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem. The time windows impose time constraints that a feasible solution must satisfy. These take the form of inequality constraints, which are known to be particularly difficult to articulate within the QUBO framework. This is, we believe, the first time this major obstacle is overcome and the TSPTW is cast in the QUBO formulation. We have every reason to anticipate that this development will lead to the actual execution of small scale TSPTW instances on the D-Wave platform.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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