Operations Research in Progress

Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies, Vienna, September 22-24, 1980

1: Mathematical Programming and Optimal Control Theory. - An Optimality Condition and its Application to Parametric Semi-Infinite Optimization. - The Choice of a Parameter in a Penalty Method. - Recent Results on ? -Conjugation and Nonconvex Optimization. - On Quantitative Stability of Point-to-Set-Mappings and the Rate of Convergence of Corresponding Algorithms. - On the Penalization Method in Convex Stochastic Programming. - A New Algorithm of Solving the Flow Shop Problem. - On Dynamic Traffic Assignment. - On an Approximation Problem of Mechanical Structural Optimization. - Optimal Daily Scheduling of the Electricity Production in Hungary. - Power Distribution Planning and the Application of Linear Mixed-Integer Programming. - Optimal Flood Control by Reservoir Systems Using the Reduced Gradient Method. - Instant Optimization of Hydro Energy Storage Plants. - Dynamic Programming in Power System Extension Planning. - Some New Multicriteria Approaches. - Equilibrium Selection in a Wage Bargaining Situation with Incomplete Information. - Planning and Forecast Horizons in a Simple Wheat Trading Model. - Intertemporal Reversales of Environmental and Macroeconomic Policies. - Optimal Control of Concave Economic Models with two Control Instruments. - Optimal Control with Switching Dynamics. - Dynamic Systems with Several Decision-Makers. - Optimal Bimodal Harvest Policies in Age-Specific Bioeconomic Models. - Growth Rates, Optimal Harvesting and Related Topics in the Mass Rearing of Tsetse Flies. - The Release of Partly Fertile Males or Females in the Application of the Sterile-Insect Technique: Mathematical Analysis of the Hard-Release Strategy. - 2: Stochastic Models. - New Developments in Optimal Control of Queueing Systems. - Estimation and Control in a GI|M|1-System. - On Discriminatingamong Stochastic Models A Survey. - Increasing the Work-Safety in Nuclear Power Plants through the Use of Preventive Maintenance Policies. - Recent Developments in Econometrics. - Slight Misspecifications of Linear Systems. - Local Sensitivity Analysis and Matrix Derivatives. - Analysis and Forecasting of Demand for Electricity Using Time Series Analysis. - Short Term Load Predication in Electric Power Systems. - Interactive Short-Term Load Forecasting. - Predicting the Demand for Electricity An Application of Transfer Function Analysis. - Problems Associated with the Design of a Reliability Model in Electricity Industry.