...the routing problem can be formulated as follows. Given a network of stations, connected by links with specified capacities, and given the message demands imposed, find the message routes that allow the largest possible number of messages to be delivered.

As examples of large networks, the Western Union network has fifteen regional switching stations; and the new U. S. Defense Communications System has more than 100 major stations...the single precision codes developed for the IBM 7090 at the Electronic Computation Center, Standard Oil Company of California, San Francisco ... | jacm 11, No. 1 (January, 1964}, pp. 104-I 16, maurice pollack

Symposium on "Optimum Routing in Large Networks" of the IFIP Congress 62 (organized by the Council of the International Federation for Information Processing); held at Munich, Germany, August 27-September 1, 1962.
Investigation was supported in part by Army Communication Systems Division, U.S. Army Signal Corps, under contract iDA 36-039-SC-85052.