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The classical Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) has been sucessfully applied to a broad variety of real word situation from tour scheduling and production scheduling problems. The tour scheduling problem is a typical bicriterion TSP containing both of time and cost criteria. The tour scheduling problem consists of itinerary and travel tools between each city pairs. The classical TSP considers only a single tool between cities that limits practical application. In this research we are interesting in the bicriterion-multivariant version of TSP. The heuristic algorithms can construct a series of the itinerary with time and budget limits. The traveler can get a near optimal solution by inputting time and cost weights. A set of undominated solutions will be found by solving these heuristic algorithms. A set of undominated solutions helps user to make more flexible decision than a single solution, and the near optimal solution increases user's decision making speed. This research also evaluate the performance of those heuristic algorithms by comparing them with the result of LINDO. The conclusion is that Alg1.1 is the most efficient method among these heuristic algorithms. The bicriterion-multivariant TSP ( BMTSP ) is a new area. This research developed the mathematical model and heuristic algorithms to the BMTSP. We hope that the result of this research can expand the applications of TSP to more practical problems.
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