Travelling Salesman with multiple salesmen?

Question

I have a problem that has been effectively reduced to a Travelling Salesman Problem with multiple salesmen. I have a list of cities to visit from an initial location, and ha

Answer 1

I wouldn't start writing an algorythm for such complicated issue (unless that's my day job - to write optimization algorythms). Why don't you turn to a generic solution like http://www.optaplanner.org/ ? You have to define your problem and the program uses algorithms that top developers took years to create and optimize.