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 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...

Reduction and Decomposition of Modulo Optimization Problems -- Optimization of Elastic Structures by Mathematical Programming Techniques -- On Closed Sets Having a Least Element -- On the Convergence of the Variable Metric Method with Numerical Derivatives and the Effect of Noise in the Function...