Networks: Optimisation and Evolution

by Peter Whittle

Book Overview

Point-to-point vs hub-and-spoke. Questions of network design are real and involve many billions of dollars. Yet little is known about optimising design - nearly all work concerns optimising flow assuming a given design. This foundational book tackles optimisation of network structure itself, deriving comprehensible and realistic design principles. With fixed material cost rates, a natural class of models implies the optimality of direct source-destination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110741072X
• ISBN13: 9781107410725
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"