Electrical, communication, transportation, computer, and neural networks are special kinds of nets. Designing these networks demands sophisticated mathematical models for their analysis. This book is the first to present a unified, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of net theory. It brings together elements of abstract graph theory and circuit analysis to network problems.
Contents:
- Graphs and Networks
- The Shortest Directed Path Problem
- Maximum Flows in Networks
- Minimum Trees and Communication Nets
- Feasibility Theorems and Their Applications
- Applications of Flow Theorems to Subgraph Problems
- Signal-Flow Graphs
- Other Net Applications
Readership: Graduate students in electrical and electronic engineering.
Wai-Kai Chen, Professor and Head Emeritus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering at Ohio University, where he was later recognized as a Distinguished Professor. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Professor Chen has extensive experience in education and industry and is very active professionally in the fields of circuits and systems. He has served as visiting professor at Purdue University, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Series I and II, President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers. He received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America, the Alexander von Humboldt Award from Germany, the JSPS Fellowship Award from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Taipei University of Science and Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit for Distinguished Achievement in Engineering Education, as well as its College of Engineering and Technology's Academy of Distinguished Graduates, the Senior University Scholar Award and the 2000 Faculty Research Award from University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is the recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal, the Education Award, and the Meritorious Service Award from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE. He has also received more than dozen honorary professorship awards from major institutions in Taiwan and China.
A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Professor Chen is widely known in the profession for his Applied Graph Theory, Theory and Design of Broadband Matching Networks, Active Network and Feedback Amplifier Theory, Linear Networks and Systems, Passive and Active Filters: Theory and Implements, Theory of Nets: Flows in Networks, The Electrical Engineering Handbook and The VLSI Handbook.
