This conference volume is a collection of over thirty refereed contributions in the areas of optimization and control. The volume is organized into the following sections: Mathematics of Operations Research and Global Optimization Linear and Combinatorial Programming Tours, Locations and...

This book uses the methods of statistical time-series analysis to characterize the stochastic structure of seven major dollar spot exchange rates, at both weekly and monthly frequencies, during the recent floating-rate regime 1973-1985. While the conditional-mean behaviour of each exchange rate...

1 -- Computer-aided scheduling in urban mass transit companies: Past, present and future -- 2 -- ALIAGES: A system for the assignment of bus routes to garages -- The multiple vehicle DIAL-A-RIDE problem -- Bus scheduling with a fixed number of vehicles -- An interactive system for extra-urban...

This book contains a collection of the most significant contributions to some of R.M. Goodwin's ideas, which were presented on the occasion of the outstanding economist's 73rd birthday celebrations held in Modena on February 24th, 1986. The most important feature of this book is the unique...

In this book problems related to the choice of models in such diverse fields as regression, covariance structure, time series analysis and multinomial experiments are discussed. The emphasis is on the statistical implications for model assessment when the assessment is done with the same data...

This volume contains selected papers presented either at the Oberwolfach Conference on Operations Research, February 1987, or at the three-day workshop on Advanced Computation Techniques, Parallel Processing and Optimization organized by IIASA and the University of Karlsruhe, which immediately...

This book studies a large economy. It deals with a static microeconomic model of an exchange market with pure competition. Instead of the sigma-additive theory, the finitely additive theory, the general Jordan content and the general Riemann integration are used respectively. By a specialized...

This book aims to include the effects of a progressive personal tax into the deterministic dynamic theory of the firm. To this end the author investigates the impact of a progressive personal tax on the optimal dividend, financing and investment policy of a shareholder-controlled,...

This volume brings together for the first time articles by well-known experts focusing on the topic of the joint occurrence of imprecision, dealt with in terms of fuzzy sets and possibility theory, and randomness, dealt with in terms of probability theory, in a wide spectrum of decision making...

Improvements in the performance of a freight transport system can be achieved either through technological innovation or by using advanced planning tools. This volume includes contributions on planning which cover the following topics: - analysis of current trends in developed countries, -...