Business and Management

Generalizations of convex functions have been used in a variety of fields such as economics.

0 d Den in diesem Band gesammelten Beiträgen geht es um konkrete Hinweise zur Überwindung der Kluft zwischen der naturwissenschaftlich-technischen und der geistig-sozialen Welt.

In this book, production rules are studied for situations which share some important elements.

Fertigungsautomatisierung und die Realisierung fortgeschrittener Informationsverarbeitung sind wesentliche Voraussetzungen, um den Marktanforderungen für die Auftrags- und Kleinserienfertigung gerecht zu werden.

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This book describes some models from the theory of investment which are mainly characterized by three features.

In the literature of decision analysis it is traditional to rely on the tools provided by probability theory to deal with problems in which uncertainty plays a substantive role.

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

In vector optimization one investigates optimization problems in an abstract setting which have a not necessarily real-valued objective function.

In the past, technological as well as economic forces dominated the evolution of industrial structures: these factors have been treated extensively in numerous studies.

These proceedings include papers presented at the VII-th Internatio- nal Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making which was held in Kyoto/Japan on August 18-22, 1986.

The airframe industry is usually recognized as being different from most manufacturing industries.

The objective of this conference was to foster a healthy exchange of ideas and experience in the domain of multiple criteria problem solving.

Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science.

Ever since A.

The variable metric algorithm is widely recognised as one of the most efficient ways of solving the following problem:- Locate x* a local minimum point n ( 1) of f(x) x E R Considerable attention has been given to the study of the convergence prop- ties of this algorithm especially for the case where analytic expressions are avai- ble for the derivatives g.

Imbedding is a powerful and versatile tool for problem- solving.

The present work is an extended version of a manuscript of a course which the author taught at the University of Hamburg during summer 1969.

This study has grown out of a part of the author's thesis "e;Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior"e; submitted to the University of Western Australia (1964) and a course on Queueing Theory given to graduate students in the Operations Research Group of Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.

At the present time, we are witnessing a period of vigorous growth in the iron and steel industries of the older industrialised countries.

Das vorliegende Buch ist die zweite Veröffentlichung innerhalb der Reihe "Afrika-Studien", die über den rein wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich hinausgeht und sich mit sozialwissenschaftliehen Fragen im weiten Sinne des 1 Wortes befaßt .

The following monograph deals with the approximate stochastic behavior of a system consisting of a sequence of servers in series with finite storage between consecutive servers.

The papers appearing in this Volume were selected from a collec- tion of papers presented at the Internationa~ Symposium on Extrema~ Methods and Systems Ana~ysis on the Occasion of Professor A.

This book is intended as a contribution to the theory of markets with imperfect information.

Those familiar with input-output analysis know well that compilation of input-output tables is a difficult statistical work.

The Fifth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, not suprisingly, had several objectives.

Semi-infinite programming is a natural extension of linear pro- gramming that allows finitely many variables to appear in infinitely many constraints.

This volume is the final result of the research project 'Micro growth model"e;, that was sponsored by the Central Research Pool of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Das Buch unternimmt eine theoretische Fundierung der empirischen Beobachtung, daß die realen Stückkosten eines Produktes mit zunehmender Produktionserfahrung des herstellenden Unternehmens stetig sinken.

During the Spring of 1979 one of us (Zionts) was invited to visit Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Fourth International MCDM Conference follows a tradition that began with an exploratory gathering at the University of South Carolina in 1973.

Decision making is the process of selecting a possible course of action from all the available alternatives.

The purpose of this monograph is to illuminate the central issues of dynamic analysis applied to economic models, using a generally accepted language of the study of dynamical systems at a level of sophistication likely to be understood by an economist versed in elementary topology.

This collection of articles aspires to be a permanent record of ideas which are likely to become important determinants in the future of management sciences.

This monograph is intended as a contribution to applied work in production theory by treating: a) The measurement problems involved whenever several outputs are jointly produced, and b) The (possible) econometric framework for estimating production function parameters whenever (relative) prices vary sufficiently over the observations.

The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems - is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector: information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals and hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergency services, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense.

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium on "e;Decision processes in Economics"e; which was held in Modena (Italy) on 9-10 October 1989.

The title of this book seems to indicate that the volume is dedicated to a very specialized and narrow area, i.