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Records

Latest Records for the Snake-in-the-Box Problem (January, 2012)

Dimensions

Snakes1

Coils2

Symmetric Coils

Length

Source

Length

Source

Length

Source

1 1* - 0* - 0* -
2 2* (2) 4* (3) 4* (11)
3 4* (2) 6* (3) 6* (11)
4 7* (2) 8* (3) 8* (11)
5 13* (2) 14* (3) 14* (11)
6 26* (2) 26* (3) 26* (11)
7 50* (6) 48* (4) 46* (12)
8 98 (8) 96 (5) 94 (9)
9 190++ (9) 188 ++ (9) 170 (9)
10 367++ (10) 348 ++ (9) 294 (9)
11 689++ (10) 640 ++ (9) 494 (9)
12 1265++ (10) 1238 (5) 902 (9)

1 Open Snakes.
2 Closed Snakes.
* denotes absolute bound.
++ NEW.

References:


**1** Casella, D.A. and W.D. Potter, "Using Evolutionary Techniques to Hunt for Snakes and Coils". Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing , Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 2005.

**2** Davies, D.W., "Longest 'separated' paths and loops in an N-cube", IEEE Trans. Electron. Comput EC-14 (1965) 261.

**3** Kautz, W.H., "Unit-Distance Error-Checking Codes", IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, Vol EC-7, (1958) 179-180.

**4** Kochut, K.J., "Snake-in-the-Box Codes for Dimension 7.", Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 20 (1998) 175--185.

**5** Paterson, K.G. and J. Tuliani, "Some New Circuit Codes", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 44, No. 3, 1305-1309 (1998).

**6** Potter, W.D., R.W. Robinson, J.A. Miller and K.J. Kochut, "Using the Genetic Algorithm to find Snake-in-the-Box Codes", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (1994) 307-314.

**7** Tuohy, D.R., W.D. Potter and D.A. Casella, "Searching for Snake-in-the-Box Codes with Evolved Pruning Models", Proceedings of the 2007 Int. Conf. on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'2007), 3-9.

**8** Carlson, B. and Hougen, D., "Phenotype Feedback Genetic Algorithm Operators for Heuristic Encoding of Snakes within Hypercubes", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 791-798 (2010).

**9** Wynn, E., "personal communications", (11/2009, dim 9 186), 8/2010, 1/13/2012.

**10** Kinny, David, 11/1/2011 Details Forthcoming.

**11** Adelson, L.E., Alter, R., and Curtz, T.B., "Long Snakes and a Characterization of Maximal Snakes in the d-Cube", in the Proceedings of 4th SouthEastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Congr. Number 8, pp 111-124,1973

**12** Adelson, L.E., Alter, R., and Curtz, T.B., "Computation of d-Dimensional Snakes", in the Proceedings of 4th SouthEastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Congr. Number 8, pp 135-139,1973

**13** Potter, W.D., current experimental result



updated 13/1/2012.