Artificial Life evo-edu.org

Traveling-salesperson optimization tool for evolutionary search and comparison.

Optimization and search

Use an evolutionary-style search tool to compare routes, generations, and improvement.

Route Optimizer supports discussions of search, heuristics, improvement, and the strengths and limitations of evolutionary optimization strategies.

Open application Learner guide Teacher guide Standards and alignment About
Core questionHow do iterative search and improvement strategies help find better routes without checking every possibility?
App pageDirect responsive workbench over the modern JavaScript GA solver, replacing the older iframe route.
Guide statusSeparate learner, teacher, and standards surfaces now support the app.
Legacy statusThe older TSP directory remains preserved as an archive and provenance reference.

Why Use This Tool

What learners do

Route Optimizer supports discussions of search, heuristics, improvement, and the strengths and limitations of evolutionary optimization strategies.

Concepts to foreground

  • optimization
  • search
  • fitness
  • heuristics
  • generational improvement

Provenance

Modern JavaScript adaptation of an older GA-based TSP solver lineage, wrapped in evo-edu public documentation. Read the fuller about and provenance notes.

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