Spanning the sciences, Watts, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, examines the ways in which theories and applications have come together in the Information Age. SIX DEGREES offers myriad examples from many fields, pointing out that no matter how much we believe in the individual, the links between us cannot be denied, and that they ...
"Linear Programming and Network Flows" presents the problem of minimizing and maximizing a linear function in the presence of linear equality or inequality constraints. This text provides methods for modeling complex problems via effective algorithms on modern computers, optimization problems, and effective solution algorithms. The book also ...
A comprehensive introduction to network flows that brings together the classic and the contemporary aspects of the field, and provides an integrative view of theory, algorithms and applications.* presents in-depth, self-contained treatments of shortest path, maximum flow, and minimum cost flow problems, including descriptions of polynomial-time ...
Two important scheduling techniques for modern construction management?the precedence technique and the arrow technique?are developed and analyzed. The parallel treatment of these two applications presents a basis of theory and practice for the civil engineering student and the practicing project manager. Introduces the concept of the scheduling ...
Topics include optimal branching problems, trans-shipment problems, shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, matching in bipartite and nonbipartite graphs, and applications to combinatorics.
This book combines traditional graph theory with the matroidal view of graphs and throws light on mathematical aspects of network analysis. This approach is called here hybrid graph theory. This is essentially a vertex-independent view of graphs naturally leading into the domain of graphoids, a generalisation of graphs. This enables the authors to ...
Network flow optimization analyzes optimization problems on networks; hence, network optimization is reflected in many application fields including transportation, telecommunication, computer networking, financial planning, logistics and supply chain management, energy systems, etc. However, to date, most network optimization problems that have ...
This is a revised and expanded advanced-undergraduate/graduate text (first ed., 1978) about optimization algorithms for problems that can be formulated on graphs and networks. This edition provides many new applications and algorithms.
Enables the reader to quickly learn how to graphically illustrate all project tasks and their interrelationships, and to analyze the schedule and circumvent potential problems. Illustrates each concept with an actual example to graphically illustrate all project tasks and their relationships. Shows how to examine a schedule and circumvent ...
The book is a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in project management concepts and techniques. The author places particular emphasis on precedence diagramming (PDM), at present the most widely used scheduling method. New theoretical improvements of PDM are presented, several for the first time in a book, such as: maximal type of precedence ...
This title provides a unique introduction to distribution logistics that focuses on both quantitative modeling and practical business issues. "Introduction to Distribution Logistics" presents a complete and balanced treatment of distribution logistics by covering both applications and the required theoretical background, therefore extending its ...
Building on the foundations of the successful Critical Path Analysis, this new text has been substantially changed in order to include the management concepts of project management. The book focuses on the introduction of project management in established industrial concerns, on risk assessment and on quality in projects. This text looks at what ...
This book emphasizes the interdependence of the location, production and distribution decisions made by a firm operating over a network. It examines why and how a firm must evaluate the link between these interdependent decisions and the equilibrium conditions on the network where it locates. As part of the development and presentation of location ...
Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still missing. This monograph addresses this issue. A flexible location problem called the Ordered Median ...
The set of papers in this handbook reflect the varied theory and wide range of applications of network models. Two of the most vibrant applications areas of network models are telecommunications and transportation. Several chapters explicitly model issues arising in these problem domains. Research on network models has been closely aligned with ...
This title offers a comprehensive look at the emerging science of networks. Network science helps you: design faster, more resilient communication networks; revise infrastructure systems such as electrical power grids, telecommunications networks, and airline routes; model market dynamics; understand synchronization in biological systems; and, ...
The aim of this text is to give a unified approach to new developments in discrete potential theory and infinite network theory. The author confines himself to the finite energy case, but this does not result in loss of complexity. On the contrary, the functional analytic machinery may be used in analogy with potential theory on Riemann manifolds. ...
Network optimization is important in the modeling of problems and processes from such fields as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, decision support systems, manufacturing, and airline scheduling. Recent advances in data structures, computer technology, and algorithm development have made it ...
The U.S. Army depends on a broad array of interacting physical, informational, cognitive, and social networks. Nevertheless, fundamental understanding about these networks is primitive. This gap between what is known and what is needed to ensure the smooth operation of complex networks makes the Army's transformation to a force capable of network ...
Collection of essays outlining the strategies and management skills needed to build and maintain intergovernmental networks essential to the implementation of complex public programmes.
The book presents a unified treatment of integer programming and network models with topics ranging from exact and heuristic algorithms to network flows, traveling salesman tours, and traffic assignment problems. While the emphasis of the book is on models and applications, the most important methods and algorithms are described in detail and ...
This book presents several models, either descriptive or normative, that address important issues in transportation, ranging from management of congested networks to the mathematics underlying equilibrium modeling. Every one of the fifteen chapters introduces the reader specific topic. It is for professionals, students or researchers interested in ...
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