Networks: Optimisation and Evolution Book

1. Tour d'horizon;

Part I. Distribution Networks:
2. Simple flows;
3. Continuum formulations;
4. Multi-class and destination-specific flows;
5. Design optimality under variable loading;
6. Concave costs and hierarchical structure;
7. Road networks;
8. Structural optimisation; Michell structures;
9. Structures: computational experience of evolutionary algorithms;
10. Structure design for variable loading;

Part II. Artificial Neural Networks:
11. Models and learning;
12. Some particular nets;
13. Oscillatory operation;

Part III. Processing Networks:
14. Queuing networks;
15. Time-sharing networks;

Part IV. Communication Networks:
16. Loss networks: optimality and robustness;
17. Loss networks: stochastics and self-regulation;
18. Operation of the Internet;
19. Evolving networks and the World-wide Web; Appendix

1. Spatial integrals for the telephone problem; Appendix
2. Bandit and tax processes; Appendix
3. Random graphs and polymer models; References; Index.