Operational research

This book presents selected papers from an internationalworkshop devoted tothe theory, techniques and tools ofdecision analysis and support.

These Proceedings report the scientific results of an International Workshop on Methodology and Software for Interactive Decision Support organized jointly by the System and Decision Sciences Program of the International Institute for Applied Sys- tems Analysis (nASA, located in Laxenburg, Austria) and The National Committee for Applied Systems Analysis and Management in Bulgaria.

It is not easy to summarize -even in a volume -the results of a scientific study con- ducted by circa 30 researchers, in four different research institutions, though cooperating between them and jointly with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, but working part-time, sponsored not only by IIASA's national currency funds, but also by several other research grants in Poland.

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebswissenschaften (iwb) der Technischen Universität München.

From the reviews: "e;The account is quite detailed and is written in a manner that will appeal to analysts and numerical practitioners alike.

These essays deal with various aspects of a new, rising field, socio- economics.

This text was born out of an advanced mathematical economics seminar at Caltech in 1989-90.

Over the past two decades, many advances have been made in the decision support system (DSS) field.

This volume contains the proceedings of the summer school "e;Modern Methods of Optimization"e;, held at the Schlof3 Thurnau of the University of Bayreuth, October 1-6, 1990.

'What does your Master teach?

Convex Analysis may be considered as a refinement of standard calculus, with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities.

It is the main purpose of the book to give a logically consistent foundation of migration decision making under incomplete information in a unified framework.

This thesis is a theoretical study of the optimal dynamic policies of a, to some extent, slowly adjusting firm that faces an exogeneously given technological progress and an exogeneously given business cycle.

In engineering and economics a certain vector of inputs or decisions must often be chosen, subject to some constraints, such that the expected costs arising from the deviation between the output of a stochastic linear system and a desired stochastic target vector are minimal.

Improvements in the performance of a freight transport system can be achieved either through technological innovation or by using advanced planning tools.

These Proceedings report the scientific results of an International Workshop on Large-Scale Modelling and Interactive Decision Analysis organized Jointly by the System and Decision Sciences Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, located in Laxenburg, Austria), and the Institute for Informatics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (located in Berlin, GDR).

Integer Prograw~ing is one of the most fascinating and difficult areas in the field of Mathematical Optimization.

Fuzzy set theory, which started not much more than 20 years ago as a generalization of classical set theory, has in the meantime evolved into an area which scientifically, as well as from the point of view of applications, is recognized as a very valuable contribution to the existing knowledge.

Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems are providing a welcome stimulus to research on dynamic urban transportation network models.

The present study is a preliminary draft on nonlinear economic dynamics, with which the author has been concerned the last years.

In this book quantitative approaches are proposed for production planning problems in automated manufacturing.

model's predictive capability?

In this book Professor Beckmann, with considerable ingenuity, offers a mathematical analysis of productive organizations in the widest sense.

This book is based on lectures given in a one-quarter course at UCLA.

Stochastic Programming offers models and methods fordecision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain.

1 The Importance of Irreversibility and Learning - Familiar 11 Bxamples Revisited 1.

This special volume contains the Proceedings of a Workshop on "e;Parallel Algorithms and Transputers for Optimization"e; which was held at the University of Siegen, on November 9, 1990.

A Silverman game is a two-person zero-sum game defined in terms of two sets S I and S II of positive numbers, and two parameters, the threshold T > 1 and the penalty v > 0.

Strategiekonzepte und Funktionen von Produktionsunternehmen werden beispielhaft erläutert, Analyse- und Planungsmethoden sowie Planungswerkzeuge vorgestellt.

The term inventory-production theory is not well defined.

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Due to the limited number of digits or bits per storage location in electronic computers, round-off errors arise during arithmetic operations.

In dieser Arbeit wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, mit dessen Hilfe man die Informationsverarbeitung und die Kommunikation im Bürobereich optimal mit moderner Technik (EDV, Bürosysteme) unterstützen kann.

In these lecture notes which grew out of my lectures at the Honours classes of Honash University, I have attempted to develop queueing and storage problems from a unified viewpoint.