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...

1. Introduction -- 2. Price Indices Depending only on Prices -- 2.1 Definition, Examples, Implications -- 2.2 Characterizations of Price Indices -- 3. Price Indices Depending on Prices and Quantities -- 3.1 Definition, Examples -- 3.2 Fisher’s System of Tests -- 3.3 Implications and...