UID:
almafu_9959241295402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (271 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-17185-7
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1-280-81577-9
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9786610815777
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0-511-27489-0
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0-511-27559-5
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0-511-27336-3
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0-511-32110-4
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0-511-61867-0
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0-511-27415-7
Serie:
Cambridge series in statistical and probabilistic mathematics
Inhalt:
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, first published in 2007, 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 Bendsøe 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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions on notation; Tour d'Horizon; I Distributional networks; II Artificial neural networks; III Processing networks; IV Communication networks; Appendix 1 Spatial integrals for the telephone problem; Appendix 2 Bandit and tax processes; Appendix 3 Random graphs and polymer models; References; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-41072-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-87100-X
Sprache:
Englisch
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