Networks - Optimisation and Evolution

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

Product details

• Authors: Peter Whittle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107410725
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41072-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages