Selected Topics in Operations Research and Mathematical Economics : Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Operations Research, Held at the University of Karlsruhe, West Germany August 22-25, 1983

I: Optimization Theory -- A method for linearly constrained minimization problems -- On a class of nonconvex optimization problems -- Lower semicontinuity of marginal functions -- A new approach to symmetric quasiconvex conjugacy -- Generalized convexity, functional hulls and applications to conjugate duality in optimization -- Conjugation Operators -- Global minimization of a difference of two convex functions -- Closures and neighbourhoods induced by tangential approximations -- II: Control Theory -- On the principal of “Internal Modelling” in linear control theory -- On optimal observability of Lipschitz systems -- III: Mathematical Economics -- Convergence of ?-fields and applications to mathematical economics -- Optimal growth policies for resource-dependent open economies -- A characterization of the proportional income tax -- Duality in the theory of social choice -- Nonlinear models of business cycle theory -- Existence of economic equilibrium: new results and open problems -- IV: Game Theory -- Silent duel with accuracies less than 1 -- Extensions and modifications of the ?-value for cooperative games -- Stochastic games with state independent transitions and separable rewards -- Core stability and duality of effectivity functions -- A procedure for computing the f-nucleolus of a cooperative game -- V: Graph Theory -- An O(nlogn)-algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem in trees -- A construction for strongly greedy ordered sets -- Plane constructions for graphs, networks and maps measurements of planarity -- On two problems related to the traveling salesman problem on Halin graphs -- VI: Fixed Point Theory -- Piecewise linear approximation of solution manifolds for nonlinear systems of equations -- Periodic orbits of semiflows — local indices and sections -- VII: Statistics and Measure Theoretic Concepts -- Monotone decision rules for the two-armed bandit -- On the existence of monotone optimal decision rules -- Integral representation of functionals on arbitrary sets of functions -- Invariance properties of the Banach algebra of Darboux integrable functions -- Construction of locally extremal measure extensions -- Generalized fox integral equations solved by functional equations -- VIII: Applications -- An algorithm for linear multiple-choice Knapsack problem -- New algorithms and results of numerical experiments for solution of mathematical programming and optimal control problems -- Methods of determining systems of time-table arranging with predetermined area -- Some remarks on the relation between mathematics, computer science, and medicine.