I worked with Diego (the author) on a first version of this, since it was a project in the course "Artificial Intelligence Programming" IT3105 at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway where we both stayed in our Erasmus a year ago.
While it is not very sophisticated to use SOMs for this problem, it was rather meant as an implementation exercise. And TSP allows a graphical representation of the process, which is nice too.
That said, we spent way too much time in the course implementing and fine tuning Genetic algorithms...
I worked with Diego (the author) on a first version of this, since it was a project in the course "Artificial Intelligence Programming" IT3105 at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway where we both stayed in our Erasmus a year ago.
While it is not very sophisticated to use SOMs for this problem, it was rather meant as an implementation exercise. And TSP allows a graphical representation of the process, which is nice too. That said, we spent way too much time in the course implementing and fine tuning Genetic algorithms...