Editorial

Abstract

EditorialThis special issue of Networks is dedicated to the INOC 2009 Conference, held in Pisa, Italy, April 26-29, 2009. As with the previous editions, this fourth edition of the conference has received great interest within the network optimization community, with a large number of participants from some 30 countries. The conference program reached a high scientific level including four plenary talks by invited speakers of international stature on relevant network optimization themes, and 106 talks across 24 contributed sessions and five invited sessions. The Scientific and the Organizing Committees of INOC 2009 were chaired