I Historical Perspectives -- A Biography of Professor A. Charnes and His Scientific Work -- Abraham Charnes—A Strategy for Research and a Record of Results -- Publications of A. Charnes -- II Economic Modeling and Equilibrium -- Multi-page Format Economic Systems -- The Need for Dynamic...

1 The Transportation Planning Process -- 1.1. Goal formulation, generation and evaluation of alternatives -- 1.2. Descriptive approaches -- 1.3. Optimizing approaches -- 1.4. Welfare theory and measures of efficiency -- 1.5. The use of existing traffic patterns in the planning process -- 1.6....

1. The Linear Sum Assignment Problem -- 2. The Linear Bottleneck Assignment Problem -- 3. The Cardinality Matching Problem -- 4. The Sum Matching Problem -- 5. The Bottleneck Matching Problem -- 6. The Chinese Postman Problem -- 7. Quadratic Assignment Problems -- 8. QAP Heuristic 1: The method...

I. Theoretical Results -- Stochastic-Parametric Linear Programs II -- A Necessary Condition for Continuity in Parametric Linear Programming -- On Parametric Linear Optimization IV. Differentiable Parameter Functions -- Conditions for Optimality in Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Problems -- A...

to Techniques -- Initial Application in Melbourne -- Growth Corridor Studies -- Other Topaz Studies in Melbourne -- Initial Application in Blacksburg -- Water and Sewer Cost Models -- Energy Studies -- Regional Level Applications -- Water Supply Catchment Planning -- Campus Planning --...

I: Introduction -- II: Optimization methods -- 1. Line-search algorithms -- 2. Quadratic programming -- 3. Unconstrained optimization -- 4. Penalty methods -- 5. Multiplier methods -- 6. Quadratic approximation methods -- 7. Generalized reduced gradient methods -- 8. The method of Robinson --...