ABSTRACT
Network analysis provides a framework for the study of a special class of linear programming problems that can be modeled as network programs. Because such a vast array of problems can be viewed as networks, this is one of the most significant classes of applications in the field of Operations Research. Some of these problems correspond to a physical or geographical network of elements within a system, while others correspond more abstractly to a graphical approach to planning or grouping or arranging the elements of a system.
