The All-Colors Shortest Path is a recently introduced NP-Hard optimization problem, in which a color is assigned to each vertex of an edge weighted graph, and the aim is to find the shortest path spanning all colors. The solution path can be not simple, that is it is possible to visit multiple times the same vertices if it is a convenient choice. The starting vertex can be constrained (ACSP) or not (ACSP-UE). We propose a reduction heuristic based on the transformation of any ACSP-UE instance into an Equality Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem one. Computational results show the algorithm to outperform the best previously known one.

A reduction heuristic for the all-colors shortest path problem

Carrabs, Francesco;Cerulli, Raffaele;Raiconi, Andrea
2021-01-01

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The All-Colors Shortest Path is a recently introduced NP-Hard optimization problem, in which a color is assigned to each vertex of an edge weighted graph, and the aim is to find the shortest path spanning all colors. The solution path can be not simple, that is it is possible to visit multiple times the same vertices if it is a convenient choice. The starting vertex can be constrained (ACSP) or not (ACSP-UE). We propose a reduction heuristic based on the transformation of any ACSP-UE instance into an Equality Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem one. Computational results show the algorithm to outperform the best previously known one.
2021
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