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  • MakaleAçık Erişim2026
    A Consensus-Edge Initializer for Multi-start 2-opt on the Symmetric Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem

    Saygili, Ahmet Caglar; Kazan, Halim

    We study a one-shot consensus-based initializer for multi-start 2-opt on symmetric Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) instances. Given the M local minima from best-of-M 2-opt, we count undirected edge frequencies, greedily assemble a tour from the most frequent edges with a length-biased tie-break, and run a single additional 2-opt descent from this seed. The local search operator is unchanged; the consensus stage reuses existingtours and adds only a small overhead beyond the M descents, and we characterise this overhead analytically while focusing evaluation on tour length improvements. On synthetic Euclidean instances from three generators, we evaluate performance over a grid of problem sizes n and restart budgets M. The consensus + 2-opt pipeline improves best-of-M 2-opt by roughly 3-6% in median tour length with high win rates for n >= 500 and moderate M, while for small n and large M the baseline saturates and gains shrink to zero or slightly negative values. Thus, even a single aggregation step over 2-opt local minima yields a simple, reproducible seed that is beneficial in the practically relevant regime of moderate budgets and larger instances and approximately neutral elsewhere.

  • MakaleYalnız künye2011Scopus SJRQ1
    Photosynthetic algorithm approaches for bioinformatics

    Alatas, Bilal

    Photosynthetic algorithm (PA) is the newly biosystem-derived heuristic search algorithm that utilizes the dark reaction rules governing the transfer of carbon molecules from one substance into another in the Calvin-Benson cycle and photorespiration. There are only two works using this new algorithm in the literature, one for finite element analysis and one for N-queen problem. This paper presents PA based novel solution techniques in bioinformatics problems such as aligning multiple sequences and discovering association rules within bio-medical data. The simulation results demonstrate the applicability and potential of this algorithm. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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