AOM 2015 - International Symposium on Analysis, Optimization and Management of Flow Networks

The potential application of methods for analysis, optimisation and management of networks reaches across many diverse fields. Methods for determining the reliability and availability of networks for example, have already become important analytical tools in many industries.
The demand for optimal management of large and complex networks in real time is increasing because of the improved quality of service of real networks and reduced disruption caused by failures, overloading and congestion. There is also increased demand for optimal network topologies characterised by a superior throughput reliability and availability, resistance to congestionand overloading.
Gaps and critical problems in the theory of networks also need to be addressed. For example, real flow networks exhibit with a very large probability highly undesirable closed parasitic flow loops, associated with wastage of energy and increased levels of congestion. Parasitic flow loops in networks remained unnoticed for a very long time. Ironically, despite the years of intensive research on static flow networks, closed parasitic flow loops appear in the solutionsof all classical algorithms for maximising the throughput flow in networks.
This mini-symposium will provide aforum for discussing methods and algorithms for analysis, optimisation and management ofstatic networks, stochastic networks, repairable networks, networks with disturbed flows and reliability networks. The mini-symposium will also provide a forum for presenting and discussing methods for quantifying the uncertainty in the networks performance.
Important topics of the mini-symposium will be the application aspects of the discussed methods, related to:
Transportation networks;
Supply chain networks;
Social support networks and flows of services;
Production networks;
Manufacturing networks
Computer networks;
Electrical distribution networks;
Reliability networks of complex systems