This book contains a collection of 10 lectures about modern methods of optimization. Each of these lectures is devoted to a topic of current interest in optimization and gives an overview starting with the first ideasand leading to recent developments. It can serve as an introduction intonew...

In this paper we consider an n-person cost-goal-game in which the connection between costs and goals is given by a system of linear inequalities. This game is transformed into a cooperative n-person game and necessary and sufficient conditions for the grand coalition to be stable are derived....