Research Article

A Water Flow-Like Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Table 1

Description of WFA parameters.

Iteration limit
Initial mass of original flow
Mass of
Initial velocity of original flow
Velocity of
Base momentum
Upper limit on the number of subflows that can split from a flow
Number of subflows forked from
Total number of water flows in the current iteration
Solution corresponding to
Solution corresponding to subflow that splits from
Mass of subflow that splits from
Altitude decrease from to its subflow
Gravitational acceleration
Prescribed number of iterations until a flow is removed Completely by evaporation