Network problems are pervasive in our modern technological society, as witnessed by our reliance on physical networks that provide power, communication, and transportation. As well, a number of processes can be modeled using logical networks, as in the scheduling of interdependent tasks, the dating of archaeological artifacts, or the compilation of subroutines comprising a large computer program. Networks provide a common framework for posing and studying problems that often have wider applicability than their originating context.
The goal of this journal is to provide a central forum for the distribution of timely information about network problems, their design and mathematical analysis, as well as efficient algorithms for carrying out optimization on networks. The nonstandard modeling of diverse processes using networks and network concepts is also of interest. Consequently, the disciplines that are useful in studying networks are varied, including applied mathematics, operations research, computer science, discrete mathematics, and economics.
Networks publishes material on the analytic modeling of problems using networks, the mathematical analysis of network problems, the design of computationally efficient network algorithms, and innovative case studies of successful network applications. We do not typically publish works that fall in the realm of pure graph theory (without significant algorithmic and modeling contributions) or papers that deal with engineering aspects of network design. Since the audience for this journal is then necessarily broad, articles that impact multiple application areas or that creatively use new or existing methodologies are especially appropriate. We seek to publish original, well-written research papers that make a substantive contribution to the knowledge base. In addition, tutorial and survey articles are welcomed. All manuscripts are carefully refereed.

Editorial Board
E D I T O R S - I N - C H I E F

 Dr. B. L. Golden (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

 Dr. D. R. Shier (Clemson University, Clemson, USA)

A S S O C I A T E   E D I T O R S
 Christos Alexopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 
netherlands flag Niels Agatz (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
 Claudia Archetti (University of Brescia, Italy) 
 Ruibin Bai (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 
 Anant Balakrishnan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 Balabhaskar Balasundaram (Oklahoma State University, USA)
 Luca Bertazzi (University of Brescia, Italy)
 Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University, USA)
 Luciana Buriol (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
 Ozan Candogan (University of Chicago, USA)
 Zhi-Long Chen (University of Maryland, College Park,  USA)
 Eddie Cheng (Oakland University, USA)
 Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, USA)
 Ivan Contreras (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
 David Coudert (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France) 
 Geir Dahl (University of Oslo, Norway)
 Brian Dean (Clemson University, USA)
 Luis Gouveia (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
 Mohammad Hajiaghayi (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
 Dorit Hochbaum (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
 Patrick Jaillet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
 Samir Khuller (University of Maryland, USA) 
 Ralf Klasing (Universite Bordeaux, France)
 Gary Kochenberger (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
 Gilbert Laporte (HEC Montréal, Canada)
 Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC Business School of Paris, France) 
usa flag Cheng Lu (Rokid, Inc. USA)
 Marios Mavronicolas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
 Hugh Medal (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
 Erick Moreno-Centeno (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)
 Nilay Noyan (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
 Daniel Paulusma (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)
 David Peleg (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
 Andrzej Proskurowski (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)
 Harilaos Psaraftis (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
 S. Raghavan (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
 Mauricio Resende (Amazon.com, USA)
 Louis-Martin Rousseau (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
 Stefan Ruzika (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
 Saket Saurabh (Institute of Mathematical Sciences - CIT, India)
 Maria Grazia Scutellà (Universita di Pisa, Italy)
 Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University, USA) 
 Siqian Shen (University of Michigan, USA) 
 Martin Skutella (Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany) 
 Cole Smith (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA)
 Christos Tarantilis (Athens University, Athens, Greece)
 Paolo Toth (University of Bologna, Italy) 
 Pan Xu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

 A D V I S O R Y  E D I T O R S
B. Gavish
F. Glover
R. L. Graham
M. Groetschel
R. Karp 
F. T. Leighton
T. Magnanti
C. Monma
W. Pulleyblank

 F O U N D I N G   E D I T O R S
 F. T. Boesch, Stevens Institute of Technology
 I. T. Frisch, Polytechnic University
 D. J. Kleitman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  P A S T  M A N A G I N G   E D I T O R

  C. L. Suffel, Stevens Institute of Technology