Statistical decision models are formulated for a decision situation involving a decision maker who is a broker, a person engaged in bringing together sellers and buyers to make transactions. The objective of the analysis is the determination of a plan in accordance with the broker's subjective...

First-strike stability in a multipolar world measures the incentives of all major nuclear weapon countries, in all possible coalitions, to refrain from preemptive attack. The analysis integrates the interactions of offensive weapon arsenals, vulnerable offensive weapons within these arsenals,...

In this paper we present an algorithm for solving mathematical programming problems of the form: Find x - (x₁,..., x_n) to minimize \sum \varphi _i(x_i) subject to x \in G and l < x < L. Each \varphi _i is assumed to be lower semicontinuous, possibly nonconvex, and G is assumed to be closed. The algorithm is of the...</x>

This paper presents an algorithm for determining the minimum cost schedule of tasks in a critical path network in which task cost-time curves may be concave. A computer program for the case of cost-time curves that are piecewise linear in two segments is described, and a numerical example is...