{"title":"Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness","series_title":"LION 6","publication":"Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219","extern":"1","year":"2012","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"user_id":"102979","citation":{"mla":"Mersmann, Olaf, et al. “Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness.” Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219, Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 115–129.","ieee":"O. Mersmann, B. Bischl, J. Bossek, H. Trautmann, M. Wagner, and F. Neumann, “Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness,” in Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219, 2012, pp. 115–129.","ama":"Mersmann O, Bischl B, Bossek J, Trautmann H, Wagner M, Neumann F. Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness. In: Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219. LION 6. Springer-Verlag; 2012:115–129.","apa":"Mersmann, O., Bischl, B., Bossek, J., Trautmann, H., Wagner, M., & Neumann, F. (2012). Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness. Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219, 115–129.","chicago":"Mersmann, Olaf, Bernd Bischl, Jakob Bossek, Heike Trautmann, Markus Wagner, and Frank Neumann. “Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness.” In Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219, 115–129. LION 6. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2012.","short":"O. Mersmann, B. Bischl, J. Bossek, H. Trautmann, M. Wagner, F. Neumann, in: Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 115–129.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{Mersmann_Bischl_Bossek_Trautmann_Wagner_Neumann_2012, place={Berlin, Heidelberg}, series={LION 6}, title={Local Search and the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Feature-Based Characterization of Problem Hardness}, booktitle={Revised Selected Papers of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Volume 7219}, publisher={Springer-Verlag}, author={Mersmann, Olaf and Bischl, Bernd and Bossek, Jakob and Trautmann, Heike and Wagner, Markus and Neumann, Frank}, year={2012}, pages={115–129}, collection={LION 6} }"},"department":[{"_id":"819"}],"place":"Berlin, Heidelberg","type":"conference","date_updated":"2023-12-13T10:48:58Z","_id":"48890","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-3-642-34412-1"]},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"With this paper we contribute to the understanding of the success of 2-opt based local search algorithms for solving the traveling salesman problem TSP. Although 2-opt is widely used in practice, it is hard to understand its success from a theoretical perspective. We take a statistical approach and examine the features of TSP instances that make the problem either hard or easy to solve. As a measure of problem difficulty for 2-opt we use the approximation ratio that it achieves on a given instance. Our investigations point out important features that make TSP instances hard or easy to be approximated by 2-opt."}],"publisher":"Springer-Verlag","keyword":["2-opt","Classification","Feature Selection","MARS","TSP"],"status":"public","date_created":"2023-11-14T15:58:59Z","page":"115–129","author":[{"last_name":"Mersmann","first_name":"Olaf","full_name":"Mersmann, Olaf"},{"first_name":"Bernd","last_name":"Bischl","full_name":"Bischl, Bernd"},{"last_name":"Bossek","first_name":"Jakob","id":"102979","orcid":"0000-0002-4121-4668","full_name":"Bossek, Jakob"},{"full_name":"Trautmann, Heike","last_name":"Trautmann","first_name":"Heike"},{"first_name":"Markus","last_name":"Wagner","full_name":"Wagner, Markus"},{"full_name":"Neumann, Frank","first_name":"Frank","last_name":"Neumann"}]}