Research Article

Dynamic Reduction-Expansion Operator to Improve Performance of Genetic Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem

Table 2

Results on the 20 largest TSP instances: average, best, and worst results on 10 runs of the GA with 500 generations.

InstanceRedExp__RedExp_RedExp
 AverageBestWorstAverageBestWorstAverageBestWorstAverageBestWorstAverageBestWorstAverageBestWorst

a280219.82%210.47%237.19%8.56%7.07%11.29%7.23%3.83%9.33%8.22%6.04%10.29%8.85%4.95%11.97%8.88%6.90%10.19%
d493353.42%338.64%362.27%10.09%9.17%10.95%9.96%8.71%11.07%9.27%8.52%11.01%10.22%9.44%10.92%9.31%8.19%10.67%
d657648.07%637.43%659.50%16.58%15.87%17.39%12.80%11.77%13.45%17.25%15.32%18.91%13.42%11.84%14.31%13.06%11.61%14.13%
dsj10001241.81%1213.86%1269.45%23.97%22.73%24.52%16.14%14.31%17.27%22.59%19.79%23.69%15.87%13.96%16.93%16.66%15.32%17.59%
fl417606.45%567.84%655.64%10.46%7.00%11.69%11.36%6.93%13.97%10.87%6.69%14.17%9.65%8.16%13.17%8.61%3.99%12.20%
lin318264.31%256.94%286.52%11.41%9.71%13.01%6.42%5.36%7.59%11.80%10.52%14.28%7.53%5.00%9.57%7.72%7.02%8.86%
nrw13791261.95%1248.51%1277.91%19.51%18.28%20.42%18.38%17.79%19.19%20.19%19.11%20.72%18.74%18.02%19.50%19.01%18.11%19.89%
pcb11731195.06%1167.86%1211.13%19.44%18.67%20.39%18.09%17.14%18.78%19.53%18.42%20.04%18.84%17.22%20.10%18.78%17.23%21.06%
pr439445.22%427.80%451.11%13.01%11.05%15.80%8.91%7.08%10.30%11.96%9.74%14.23%10.44%8.35%12.75%10.02%8.81%11.38%
pr10021102.60%1095.34%1106.83%15.32%14.51%16.16%14.87%14.22%15.66%15.62%15.02%16.79%15.31%15.01%15.88%14.99%13.83%15.86%
rat575523.40%509.95%531.09%14.74%13.46%16.12%14.28%13.47%15.04%15.25%13.40%16.40%14.58%13.20%15.94%14.26%11.91%15.34%
rat783781.88%770.09%792.67%16.47%15.50%17.56%15.62%14.98%16.22%16.74%16.12%17.48%15.82%14.35%17.45%16.19%15.67%17.02%
u724764.02%752.12%772.07%16.71%15.00%18.26%14.85%13.25%16.05%17.08%15.28%18.37%15.19%13.73%16.86%14.77%13.27%15.65%
u14321323.86%1297.30%1338.61%20.07%19.53%21.11%20.05%18.92%20.96%20.17%19.22%21.59%19.96%19.16%20.73%19.79%18.56%21.14%
uy734803.96%774.71%822.22%16.91%14.73%17.99%15.61%14.92%16.12%16.40%13.64%17.69%16.27%14.97%17.41%15.51%14.73%16.24%
pbm436447.86%444.54%450.02%11.22%9.77%12.46%10.66%8.03%12.20%10.82%9.42%13.47%10.86%8.87%12.48%10.46%8.65%11.48%
dka13761569.52%1546.66%1579.51%18.32%17.41%18.96%18.77%17.28%20.14%19.67%18.30%20.38%18.83%18.05%19.59%18.56%17.56%19.36%
zi929945.79%919.41%971.55%16.96%15.92%17.58%13.76%13.15%14.64%16.63%14.98%18.43%13.70%12.85%14.65%13.53%12.13%15.12%
lu9801228.25%1218.35%1249.95%18.60%17.54%19.69%17.91%14.52%19.70%18.02%15.59%19.58%18.48%16.96%19.70%18.75%17.40%20.87%
dca13891671.61%1660.84%1684.23%17.87%17.26%18.32%17.66%16.77%18.62%18.00%16.73%18.93%17.84%16.78%18.93%17.86%16.77%19.61%

Average Error=869.94%852.93%885.47%15.81%14.51%16.98%14.17%12.62%15.32%15.80%14.09%17.32%14.52%13.04%15.94%14.34%12.88%15.68%