"The authors have written a rigorous yet elementary and self-contained book to present, in a unified framework, generalized convex functions, which are the many non-convex functions that share at least one of the valuable properties of convex functions and which are often more suitable for...

This volume contains invited articles and refereed contributions presented at an international workshop held at the University of Pisa in 1988. The subject of the book is generalizations of the classical concept of a convex function. Many of these generalizations are prompted by applications in...