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Explain how the Travelling Salesman problem is equivalent to a Permutational Flow Shop problem. If possible, please also provide calculations to go along with the explanations.

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Solvable Cases of the No-Wait Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem
Author(s): Jack A. A. Van der Veen and Rene van Dal Source: The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 42, No. 11 (Nov., 1991), pp. 971- 980

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This solution discusses the travelling salesman problem and a permutational flow shop problem. The explanation is given in 384 words and calculations.

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Travelling Salesman Problem

Question: Explain how the Travelling Salesman problem is equivalent to a Permutational Flow Shop problem. Use the following reference:

First, the travelling salesman problem (TSP) pertains to the solution that results to the shortest possible route given a list of several cities and that each city is visited once where the start and end cities of the entire route are both the origin city. Furthermore, this ...

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