1 Introduction and summary -- 2 Basic concepts of reliability analysis -- 2.1 Mission profile, reliability block diagram -- 2.2 Failure rate -- 2.3 Reliability function, MTTF, MTBF -- 2.4 More general considerations on the concept of redundancy -- 2.5 Failure mode analysis and other reliability...

Introductory remarks -- 1: Alphabetical list of references -- 2: Classification of publications (author’s name, date of the year) -- Plant or public location on networks -- Plant layout (discrete models) -- Continuous location and plant layout models -- Some other sources.

Price Dynamics, Social Choice, Voting Methods, Probability and Chaos -- Pareto Optima and Equilibria: The Finite Dimensional Case -- The Optimality of Regulated Pricing: A General Equilibrium Analysis -- Value Allocations: An Exposition -- On Extensions of the Cournot-Nash Theorem -- Thick and...

The approach to plural rationality through soft systems methodology -- Beyond the politics of interest -- The plural rationality and interest of national planners: experiences in Hungary -- Beyond rationality -- The culture of decision making -- Different dissolutions of the man-and-world...

I. Concepts in Nonsmooth Analysis -- Attempts to Approximate a Set-Valued Mapping -- Miscellanies on Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization -- Bundle Methods, Cutting-Plane Algorithms and ?-Newton Directions -- The Solution of a Nested Nonsmooth Optimization Problem -- Variations on the Theme of...

A Multi-Country, Multi-Industry Historical View of International Trade Competitiveness -- Austrian—Italian Interdependence: Some Linking Experiments -- Proposals for the Linkage of CMEA-Country Models -- The Inforum-IIASA Family of Input—Output Models: A Brief Historigal Review, Progress in...

This volume presents the results of the 6th Input-Output Meeting, organized in Warsaw, Poland, December 16-18, 1985 by IIASA and the Institute of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Lodz. The main aim of the meeting was to demonstrate the use of integrated input-output models in economic...

I—A State-of-the-Art Review -- Behavior Mechanism in Decision Making -- Risk Assessment and Management in a Multiobjective Framework -- Multiple Criteria Optimization: A State-of-the-Art Review -- Axiomatization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- II—Theory -- Duality Theory in Vector...

Dynamics of the Central Nervous System -- Neural Connectivities: Between Determinism and Randomness -- On Solitary Waves in Biology -- Persistence in Systems with Diffusion -- Thermodynamics of the Volterra Model -- On Optimization Principles in Plant Ecology -- Dynamical Models in Quantitative...