Elias
Elias Koutsoupias
Professor of Computer Science
University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia
Athens 15784
Greece

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M. Grigni, E. Koutsoupias, and C. Papadimitriou. An approximation scheme for planar graph TSP. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pages 640--645, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 23--25 October 1995.
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Abstract

We consider the special case of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) in which the distance metric is the shortest-path metric of a planar unweighted graph. We present a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for this problem.

Bib

@string{FOCS95 = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of
                  Computer Science}}

@InProceedings{GKP95,
  author =       {M. Grigni  and  E. Koutsoupias  and  C. Papadimitriou},
  title =        {An approximation scheme for planar graph {TSP}},
  booktitle =    FOCS95,
  year =         1995,
  month =        {23--25 } # oct,
  pages =        {640--645},
  address =      {Milwaukee,  Wisconsin},
}