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      Networks: Optimisation and Evolution

      by Peter Whittle

      Point-to-point vs. hub-and-spoke. Questions of network design are real and involve many billions of dollars. Yet little is known about optimizing design - nearly all work concerns optimizing flow assuming a given design. This foundational book tackles optimization 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 connections, but considerations of variable load and environmental intrusion then enforce trunking in the optimal design, producing an arterial or hierarchical net. Its determination requires a continuum formulation, which can however be simplified once a discrete structure begins to emerge. Connections are made with the masterly work of Bends??e and Sigmund on optimal mechanical structures and also with neural, processing and communication networks, including those of the Internet and the Worldwide Web. Technical appendices are provided on random graphs and polymer models and on the Klimov index.

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      Publisher Description

      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 connections, but considerations of variable load and environmental intrusion then enforce trunking in the optimal design, producing an arterial or hierarchical net. Its determination requires a continuum formulation, which can however be simplified once a discrete structure begins to emerge. Connections are made with the masterly work of Bendsoe and Sigmund on optimal mechanical structures and also with neural, processing and communication networks, including those of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Technical appendices are provided on random graphs and polymer models and on the Klimov index.

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      Point-to-point vs hub-and-spoke. Questions of network design are real and involve many billions of dollars. Yet little is known about optimizing design - nearly all work concerns optimizing flow assuming a given design. In this foundational book, Peter Whittle tackles optimization of network structure itself, deriving comprehensible and realistic design principles. Connections are made with optimal mechanical structures, formation of bone structure, and neural, processing and communication networks, including the Internet and the Web. A masterful unification of theory from disparate fields and lessons from nature.

      Author Biography

      Peter Whittle is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. From 1973 to 1986 he was Director of the Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and this is his 11th book.

      Table of Contents

      Tour d'horizon; Part I. Distribution Networks: 1. Simple flows; 2. Continuum formulations; 3. Multi-class and destination-specific flows; 4. Design optimality under variable loading; 5. Concave costs and hierarchical structure; 6. Road networks; 7. Structural optimisation: Michell structures; 8. Structures: computational experience of evolutionary algorithms; 9. Structure design for variable loading; Part II. Artificial Neural Networks: 10. Models and learning; 11. Some particular nets; 12. Oscillatory operation; Part III. Processing Networks: 13. Queuing networks; 14. Time-sharing networks; Part IV. Communication Networks: 15. Loss networks: optimality and robustness; 16. Loss networks: stochastics and self-regulation; 17. Operation of the Internet; 18. 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.

      Review

      Review of the hardback: '... a remarkable book ... a pleasure to read ... plenty of interesting results, ideas and inspiration.' Hartmut Noltemeier, Zentralblatt MATH

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      Review of the hardback: '… a remarkable book … a pleasure to read … plenty of interesting results, ideas and inspiration.' Hartmut Noltemeier, Zentralblatt MATH

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      This book is a masterful unification of disparate fields and lessons from nature and derives comprehensible and realistic design principles.

      Description for Bookstore

      This is a foundational book on optimisation of network structure, not just function, deriving comprehensible and realistic design principles. Connections are made with optimal mechanical structures, formation of bone structure, and neural, processing and communication networks, including the Internet and the Web. A masterful unification of theory from disparate fields and lessons from nature.

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      This is a foundational book on optimisation of network structure, not just function, deriving comprehensible and realistic design principles. Connections are made with optimal mechanical structures, formation of bone structure, and neural, processing and communication networks, including the Internet and the Web. A masterful unification of theory from disparate fields and lessons from nature.

      Details

      ISBN052187100X
      Author Peter Whittle
      Short Title NETWORKS
      Pages 271
      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Series Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematic
      Language English
      ISBN-10 052187100X
      ISBN-13 9780521871006
      Media Book
      Format Hardcover
      DEWEY 519.6
      Series Number 21
      Illustrations Yes
      Year 2007
      Publication Date 2007-04-30
      Imprint Cambridge University Press
      Subtitle Optimisation and Evolution
      Place of Publication Cambridge
      Country of Publication United Kingdom
      Edition 1st
      Birth 1927
      Affiliation Univ. of Cambridge, UK Univ. of Cambridge Univ. of Cambridge Univ. of
      DOI 10.1604/9780521871006
      Audience Professional and Scholarly
      UK Release Date 2007-04-12
      AU Release Date 2007-04-12
      NZ Release Date 2007-04-12

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