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What is known about G. A. Croes

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G. A. Croes is the author of the first description of the 2-opt moves heuristic for improving non-optimal traveling salesman tours:

Croes, G. A. “A Method for Solving Traveling-Salesman Problems.” Operations Research, vol. 6, no. 6, 1958, pp. 791–812. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/167074

There is however a mystery about that article and author: after the submission of the article the author moved back to the Netherlands and the publisher didn't manage to contact the author to inform him about the review findings, so the publisher did some corrections on his own account and added a note about that in the published article.

given that the article was seminal regarding tour improvement heuristics, it seems unsatisfactory that nothing is known about the author even more because combinatorial optimization has an active research community in the Netherlands

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