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As database managers for websites like the New Zealand census bureau have begun releasing a wide variety of information online, new operations research techniques are helping to balance the public’s ...

For the distance matrix of symmetric traveling salesman problems a simple transformation into an equivalent asymmetric one is given. Assignment algorithms yield sharper lowerbounds and less subtours ...