Åke E Andersson - Biosketch and Scientific Contribution 1936-1996.- An Outline of the Volume.- Regional Science Perspectives for the Future.- Commonalities, Regional Science and the Future - A Septuagenerian Perspective.- Synergetics and Control in Networks.- Decision Making and Optimization in Regional Planning.- Putting Some Life Into the System.- Simulations in Decision Making for Socio-technical Systems.- Minimal Complexity and Maximal Decentralization.- Dynamics of Economical Networks.- An Arrow's Theorem Perspective on Networks.- Dynamics of International Financial Networks: Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Computation.- Price and Nonprice Competition in Oligopoly With Scaling of Characteristics.- A Schloss Laxenburg Model of Product Cycle Dynamics.- Gradient Dynamics in Webrian Location Theory.- Creativity - Learning and Knowledge in Networks.- Human Contacts in, Knowledge Society: An Analytical Perspective.- Education, Job Requirements, and Commuting: An Analysis of Network Flows.- Informative Contests and the Efficient Selection of Agents.- Scientific Collaboration as Spatial Interaction.- On Confucius - A Way of Chinese Thinking on Values and Institutions.- The Infrastructure Arena - Transportation and Communication Networks.- Co-Evolutionary Learning on Networks.- Modeling Adopters' Behaviour in Information Technology Systems: A Multi-Actor Approach.- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Interdependent Transportation Investment Projects.- Roadway Incident Analysis with a Dynamic User-Optimal Route Choice Model.- Transportation in Knowledge Society.- List of Contributors.