The document discusses using neural networks to solve the traveling salesman problem (TSP). It describes Hopfield neural networks and how they can be used for optimization problems like TSP. It then discusses a concurrent neural network approach that requires fewer neurons (N(logN)) than Hopfield for TSP. The document compares the performance of concurrent neural networks to Hopfield networks and self-organizing maps on TSP test cases, finding concurrent networks converge faster but are less reliable than self-organizing maps.