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Network Science, Nonlinear Science and Infrastructure Systems

  • Terry L. Friesz

  • There is much interest in infrastructural problems these days, including the complexities of transportation, the Internet, supply chains, and many other infrastructural networks. This interest has generated mathematical modeling of physical and virtual infrastructure that emphasizes the nonlinear and dynamic nature of flow phenomena on infrastructure networks

  • Will attract considerable attention among researchers in many areas, such as: network flows, network optimization, dynamical systems, OR/MS, information technology, computer science, and regional science

  • Reviewer's comment: "The book emphasizes the overall issue of modeling infrastructural networks arising in different, but related, domains. In particular, it seeks to focus on one of the main similarities between these, namely the nonlinear nature of the problems"

Book

Part of the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science book series (ISOR, volume 102)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. A Revolution in Infrastructure Network Research and Engineering?
    Terry L. Friesz
    Pages 1-5
  3. Networks and Dynamics: The Structure of the World We Live In
    Shaun Lichter, Terry L. Friesz
    Pages 7-52
  4. Modeling Large Scale and Complex Infrastructure Systems as Computable Games
    Terry L. Friesz, Reetabrata Mookherjee, Srinivas Peeta
    Pages 53-75
  5. Dynamic Competition on Networks: Differential Variational Inequalities, Limited Warfare and Internet Vulnerability
    Terry L. Friesz
    Pages 77-98
  6. Characterization and Monitoring of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
    S. R. T. Kumara, S. T. S. Bukkapatnam
    Pages 99-122
  7. Evolutionary Traffic Flow Landscapes: A Fitness Approach for ITS Management
    Kingsley E. Haynes, Rajendra G. Kulkarni, Roger R. Stough
    Pages 123-146
  8. Network Connectivity Models: An Overview and Empirical Applications
    Aura Reggiani, Sandra Vinciguerra
    Pages 147-165
  9. An Application of Complex Network Theory to German Commuting Patterns
    Sean P. Gorman, Roberto Patuelli, Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp, Rajendra Kulkarni, Günter Haag
    Pages 167-185
  10. Assessing Critical Components in Transportation Systems: Economic Models and Complex Network Science Approaches
    Satish V. Ukkusuri, José Holguín-Veras
    Pages 187-200
  11. A Simulation-Based Dynamic Intermodal Network Equilibrium Algorithm
    Elaine Chang, Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos
    Pages 201-222
  12. Modeling the Transient Nature of Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning in a Competitive Environment
    Soulaymane Kachani, Georgia Perakis, Carine Simon
    Pages 223-267
  13. An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation of Supply Chain Networks with Time-Varying Demands
    Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu
    Pages 269-304
  14. Some Amazing Properties of Road Traffic Network Equilibria
    Hillel Bar-Gera, David Boyce
    Pages 305-335
  15. Back Matter
    Pages 337-364
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About this book

Introduction

Network Science, Nonlinear Science and Infrastructure Systems has been written by leading scholars in these areas. Its express purpose is to develop common theoretical underpinnings to better solve modern infrastructural problems. It is felt by many who work in these fields that many modern communication problems, ranging from transportation networks to telecommunications, Internet, supply chains, etc., are fundamentally infrastructure problems. Moreover, these infrastructure problems would benefit greatly from a confluence of theoretical and methodological work done with the areas of Network Science, Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Science. This book is dedicated to the formulation of infrastructural tools that will better solve these types of infrastructural problems.

 

Keywords

Chaos Internet algorithm communication modeling online simulation

Editors and affiliations

  • Terry L. Friesz
    • 1
  1. 1.Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkUSA

Bibliographic information

Reviews

From the reviews: “Friesz’s book is the result of a small workshop in 2005 on the relevance of network science and allied disciplines to infrastructure system research and engineering. … The book and its large index will serve its purpose very well, and … it will encourage others to try to do the same in other areas. … It is important that specific communities interact more than previously, and this book … very well be a valuable source of inspiration for continued efforts.” (Michael Patriksson, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 49 (5), December, 2009)