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Un tratamiento detallado de la conexión entre Menger y Whitney así como también el crecimiento en el estudio de TSP puede ser encontrado en Alexander Schrijver's 2005 artículo "On the history of combinatorial optimization (till 1960). Handbook of Discrete Optimization (K. Aardal, G.L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel, eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 1–68.PS,PDF
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Marco Dorigo. Ant Colonies for the Traveling Salesman Problem. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1(1):53–66. 1997. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/86357.html
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Work by David Applegate, AT&T Labs – Research, Robert Bixby, ILOG and Rice University, Vašek Chvátal, Concordia University, William Cook, University of Waterloo, and Keld Helsgaun, Roskilde University is discussed on their project web page hosted by the University of Waterloo and last updated in June 2004, here [1]