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Special Issue on Network Analytics and Optimization

  • 1.  Special Issue on Network Analytics and Optimization

    Posted 05-05-2021 17:39

    We are pleased to publish a special issue of Networks that contains a selection of high-quality papers presented at two conferences held in 2019: INOC 2019 (Avignon, France) and EURO 2019 (Dublin, Ireland). The articles in this June 2021 issue provide the following contributions:

    • complexity results and specialized algorithms for the minimum color-degree perfect b-matching problem on edge-colored graphs,

    • optimization of the expansion plan of a mobile telecommunication company, taking into account the realization of various technologies, 

    • complexity results and approximation algorithms for "scheduling by edge reversal" to optimize concurrency of a distributed system, 

    • solution approaches for semi-stable routing in software-defined networks in order to enhance network reconfiguration, 

    • complexity analysis of an undirected two-commodity integral flow problem, certain disjoint path problems, and the strict terminal connection problem, 

    • exact and approximate solution approaches for the densest subgraph problem, especially for very large instances, 

    • analysis and algorithms for the weighted target set selection problem, a fundamental viral marketing problem in social networks.

    We trust that the readership of INFORMS will find these articles to be of interest. Two of these papers are published Open Access.



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    Douglas Shier
    Bruce Golden
    Editors-in-Chief, Networks
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