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...