Topics covered include:

• Heuristic techniques covering local search methods and population-based search techniques
• Adaptive computation techniques covering neural computation, fuzzy logic and game theory
• Practical and successful ways to address problems in network design and planning, routing, protocol design and network management

This state-of-the-art book will be an essential resource for optimization researchers needing a wider appreciation of the problems in telecommunications, and indispensable for telecommunications engineers using heuristic and adaptive techniques.