The book presents and discusses theoretical and practical developments in the field of optimization. All papers contain new results and the emphasis has been put on the accessibility of each paper for researchers working in optimization. The topics covered in this volume include: Mathematical...

Flow line design is one of the major tasks in production management. The decision to install a set of machines and buffers is often highly irreversible. It determines both cost and revenue to a large extent. In order to assess the economic impact of any possible flow line design, production...

This book presents recent developments in the field of ill-posed variational problems and variational inequalities, covering a large range of theoretical, numerical and practical aspects. The main topics are: - Regularization techniques for equilibrium and fixed point problems, variational...

I Opening Speech -- Opening Remarks: A Retrospection over 35 Years of Work -- II Keynote Addresses -- Decision Models and Preferences: The Pioneering Contributions of Ragnar Frisch -- Experiments with Preference Functions -- III Representation of Preferences by Objective Functions -- On the...

Various generalizations of convex functions have been introduced in areas such as mathematical programming, economics, management science, engineering, stochastics and applied sciences, for example. Such functions preserve one or more properties of convex functions and give rise to models which...

This fifth volume of a comprehensive bibliography lists all available publications on integer programming and combinatorial optimization from autumn 1984 to the end of 1987. The volume compiles and classifies 5867 new publications by 4680 authors under 50 different subject headings. The listing...

This monograph is intended for a graduate course of engineering and management science, as well as for persons who want an introductory and a capsule look into the theories and methodologies of multiple attribute decision making under a fuzzy environment. Moving from classical MADM introduces 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...