Preface -- Stream I: Continuous Optimization and Control -- Stream II: Discrete Optimization, Graphs and Networks -- Stream III: Decision Analysis, Decision Support -- Stream IV: Energy, Environment and Climate -- Stream V: Financial Modeling, Risk Management, Banking -- Stream VI: Game Theory,...

The European Community Regulation on Chemicals (REACH) is supposed to be a modern and intelligent regulation. It entered into effect on June 1, 2007 and remains in its implementation phase. The modern and intelligent aspects primarily lie in the way in which self-responsible action on the part...