초록(영문)
In this text, we propose a method to approximate the solution of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) using the divide and conquer method. To use the divide and conquer method, a method of appropriately dividing the given vertices is required. Accordingly, a density function using the weight of the edges connecting two different vertices as a variable was applied to group vertices having a distance (weight of the sides) below a certain distance from the highest density point. If only the value of the constant k used for the density function was well determined when using the method, it was properly divided and showed a value similar to the actual solution, and this error rate was confirmed to be less than 0.033. This means that the approximation method using the segmentation conquest technique proposed in the text shows sufficient performance to use. When the problem of the actual situation was solved through this method, the error rate was very low, about 0.009.