Certain configurations of the travelling salesman problem are uniquely difficult for humans to solve.
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Evidence from spatial problem-solving studies shows that certain structural and environmental configurations of the travelling salesperson problem, such as multilevel layouts, present unique difficulties for human navigation and decision-making.
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Spatial and Contextual Factors in Human Performance on the Travelling Salesperson Problem
1999 · cited by 34
Paper 2 demonstrates how spatial layout factors like regularity and point clusters uniquely influence human perceptual processing and performance on the travelling salesperson problem.
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Human Navigation in a Multilevel Travelling Salesperson Problem
2022 · cited by 1
Paper 8 shows that human performance significantly drops in multilevel travelling salesperson problems compared to standard Euclidean configurations, demonstrating that certain configurations are uniquely difficult.