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...

This voluume contains actual contributions to the current research directions in Optimizatiton Theory as well as applications to economic problems and to problems in industrial engineering. Of particular interest are: convex- and Nonsmooth Analysis, Sensitivity Theory, Optimization techniques...

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...

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...