Instance Created:  April 26, 2002
Number of Cities:  29514
Status:  OPEN
Best Tour:  80361
Best Lower Bound:  xxx

History

Date	Gap	Lower Bound	Tour
2.2.03			80377 - Found by Keld Helsgaun, using a variant of LKH.
3.16.03			80371 - Found by Hung Dinh Nguyen using a parallel hybrid genetic algorithm.
7.7.04			80361 - Found by Keld Helsgaun, using a variant of LKH.

Notes

1. Concorde is our linear-programming based TSP solver.

2. linkern is an implementation of Martin, Otto, and Felten's Chained Lin-Kernighan heuristic. It is included in the Concorde code.

3. LKH is Keld Helsgaun's powerful implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic.

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