By Stella Dafermos (auth.), Amedeo R. Odoni, Lucio Bianco, Giorgio Szegö (eds.)

This quantity is a compendium of papers offered through the NATO Workshop which came about in Capri, Italy, October 12-18, 1986 at the basic topic of "Flow regulate of Congested Networks: The Case of knowledge Processing and Transportation", and of which we acted as co-chairmen. the focal point of the workshop was once on move keep watch over methodologies, as utilized to combating or lowering congestion on: (1) facts verbal exchange networks; (2) city transportation networks; and (3) air site visitors regulate platforms. The pursuits of the workshop incorporated: assessment of the cutting-edge of move keep an eye on methodologies, regularly, and in all of the 3 program parts; identity of similarities and modifications within the goal features, modeling ways and arithmetic utilized in the 3 parts; exam of possibilities for "technology transfers" and for destiny interactions between researchers within the 3 areaso those pursuits have been pursued via person shows of papers on present study through workshop members and, within the situations of the second one and 3rd pursuits, via a couple of open-ended dialogue­ and-review periods that have been interspersed in the course of the workshop's programmeD the entire texts or prolonged summaries of all yet many of the papers given on the workshop are incorporated during this volume.