1 Scalar-Valued Production Functions: Homotheticity, Quasilinearity, and Technical Progress -- Invariant Relationships for Homothetic Production Functions -- Characterization of the CES Production Functions by Quasilinearity -- Technical Progress, Neutral Inventions, and Cobb-Douglas -- A...

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...

On Using the Linear Programming Relaxation of Assignment Type Mixed Integer Problems -- Contributions to Duality Theory of Certain Non-Convex Optimization Problems -- Multistate Reliability Problems for GSP-Digraphs -- Improved Bounds for the Sn /n Problem -- Selection of Solutions by Algorithms...

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...

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...

The scientific work of Oskar Morgenstern -- I: Game Theory -- Vers une théorie générale des jeux positionnels -- Erweitertes Sattelpunktkriterium und ?-Rand-Spiel -- Differential games with active and passive variables -- Stochastic linearisation of indeterminateness -- The existence problem...

The theorem of Minkowski for polyhedral monoids and aggregated linear diophantine systems -- Integer rounding and polyhedral decomposition for totally unimodular systems -- Measure extensions according to a given function -- On parametric linear optimization -- On the complexity of clustering...