1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911018911603321

Autore

Nagurney Anna

Titolo

Fragile networks : identifying vulnerabilities and synergies in an uncertain world / / Anna Nagurney, Qiang Qiang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2009

ISBN

9786612237348

9781282237346

1282237349

9780470501139

0470501138

9780470501122

047050112X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QiangQiang <1974->

Disciplina

003/.72

Soggetti

Network analysis (Planning)

System analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRAGILE NETWORKS: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; PART I NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS, EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT, AND VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Fundamental Methodologies, Network Models, and Algorithms; 2.1 Review of Variational Inequality Theory and its Relationships to Optimization; 2.2 Decentralized Decision-Making and User-Optimization; 2.2.1 The Network Equilibrium (U-O) Model with Fixed Demands; 2.2.2 Network Equilibrium (U-O) Models with Elastic Demands

2.3 Centralized Decision-Making and System-Optimization2.3.1 The System-Optimization (S-O) Models; 2.3.2 System-Optimality Conditions; 2.4 Algorithms; 2.4.1 Equilibration Algorithms; 2.4.2 The Projection Method; 2.4.3 The Modified Projection Method; 2.4.4 The Euler Method; 2.5 Sources and Notes; 3 Network Performance Measurement and Robustness Analysis; 3.1 Some Preliminaries and Network Centrality Measures; 3.2 A Unified Network Performance



Measure Based on Decentralized Decision-Making; 3.2.1 A Desirable Property of the Network Performance Measure; 3.2.2 The Importance of Network Components

3.2.3 Numerical Examples3.2.4 An Application of the New Network Measure to the Braess Network with Varying Demands; 3.3 A Network Robustness Measure Under Decentralized Decision-Making Behavior; 3.3.1 Some Theoretical Results for the Network Robustness Measure under BPR Functions and Fixed Demands; 3.3.2 A Braess-Inspired Network; 3.4 Relative Total Cost Indices for Assessing Network Robustness; 3.4.1 Theoretical Results for Networks with BPR Functions; 3.4.2 A Network Example; 3.5 Summary and Conclusions; 3.6 Sources and Notes; PART II APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS

4 Application of the Measures to Transportation Networks4.1 A Larger Fixed Demand Network; 4.2 The Sioux Falls Network; 4.2.1 Importance of Links in the Sioux Falls Network; 4.2.2 Robustness of the Sioux Falls Network; 4.2.3 The Relative Total Cost Indices for the Sioux Falls Network; 4.3 The Anaheim Network; 4.3.1 Robustness of the Anaheim Network; 4.3.2 The Relative Total Cost Indices for the Anaheim Network; 4.4 The Environmental Robustness and Link Importance of Transportation Networks; 4.4.1 Environmental Emissions

4.4.2 Environmental Impact Assessment Indices for Transportation Networks4.4.3 Environmental Link Importance Identification and Ranking; 4.4.4 Numerical Examples; 4.5 Summary and Conclusions; 4.6 Sources and Notes; 5 Supply Chain Networks with Disruption Risks; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Supply Chain Model with Disruption Risks and Random Demands; 5.2.1 The Behavior of the Manufacturers; 5.2.2 The Behavior of the Retailers; 5.2.3 The Market Equilibrium Conditions; 5.2.4 The Equilibrium Conditions of the Supply Chain; 5.3 A Weighted Supply Chain Performance Measure

5.3.1 A Supply Chain Network Performance Measure

Sommario/riassunto

A unified treatment of the vulnerabilities that exist in real-world network systems-with tools to identify synergies for mergers and acquisitions Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World presents a comprehensive study of network systems and the roles these systems play in our everyday lives. This book successfully conceptualizes, defines, and constructs mathematically rigorous, computer-based tools for the assessment of network performance and efficiency, along with robustness and vulnerability analysis. The result is a thorough explorat



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972541403321

Autore

Schaffer Ronald

Titolo

America in the Great War : the rise of the war welfare state / / Ronald Schaffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-19-992331-0

1-4237-3613-3

1-60129-652-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Disciplina

973.91/3

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - United States

United States Politics and government 1913-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. Managing American Minds; 2. Controlling Dissent; 3. The Managed Economy: Creating the Regulatory System; 4. The War Economy: Motivations and Results; 5. The War and Social Reform: Workers and the Poor; 6. The Great War and the Equality Issue: African-Americans and Women; 7. The Great War, Prohibition, and the Campaign for Social Purity; 8. American Intellectuals and the Control of War: Dewey, Lippmann, and Bourne; 9. The University at War: Veblen, Yerkes, Beard, and Cattell; 10. The Battleground

11. Motivating the AEF12. The Treatment of "Shell-shock" Cases in the AEF: A Microcosm of the War Welfare State; Epilogue; Appendix; Essay on Sources; Index; Footnotes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 10; Chapter 10; Chapter 12; Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war at all, considering we fought for scarcely over a year in a primarily European struggle. But, as Ronald



Schaffer recounts in this fascinating new book, the Great War wrought a dramatic revolution in America, wrenching a diverse, unregulated, nineteenth-century society into the modern