Cities in USA
Suppose you need to make a trip to 5 different cities in USA over a seven day period (including Seattle), starting and ending in Seattle. What will be optimum route? The optimal Cost?
We make certain assumptions:
- You can travel the cities in any order. You need to start and end in Seattle.
- Assume you are travelling during the same time of the day.
- No fare changes over the days. So, you just pick one day of the week mentioned above to collect your data. Assume to and fro fares are same.
To do: - Go to any airline of your choice and collect the fare data for the cities from Seattle and from each other. Post a screen shot of each. You will have a total of 10 screenshots.
(10 points) - Put the data in a table form, just the way we have in any networking problem. It will result in a 5×5 table (5 points)
- Draw a di- graph. This should result in a di graph. Graph should be neat and tidy. The networking graphs are called di graphs (for any one who needs explanation) (5 points)
- Use the method of Sorted edge algorithm (also known as cheapest link algorithm) to find the optimum cost.
(5 points) - Use the repeated nearest neighbor algorithm to find the optimum cost too. (This is going to be a tedious long process) (10 points)
- Give an explanation of the results obtained by the two methods, comparing them.
(5 points) - Upload everything in a Doc, PDF, jpg or Power Point format. No other formats will be entertained.