Advances in Optimization and Control

I. Mathematics of Operations Research and Global Optimization.- Matrix Differential Equations and Lyapunov Transformations.- Theory and Methods for Global Optimisation -- An Integral Approach.- The Beta-Algorithm for Mathematical Programming.- II. Linear and Combinatorial Programming.- Polynomial Algorithms for Linear Programming.- A Class of Asymptotically Optimal Strip-Packing Heuristics.- An Efficient Implicit Enumeration Algorithm for the Maximum Clique Problem.- An Optimal O(n2)-Algorithm to Fold Special PLA's.- III. Tours, Locations and Scheduling.- A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Planning an Integrated Services Network.- A General Heuristic for Node Routing Problems.- The Shortest Path Problem for the Construction of Vehicle Routes with Pick-Up, Delivery and Time Constraints.- A Vehicle Flow Model for the Optimal Design of a Two-Echelon Distribution Problem.- An Approximate Solution to a Capacitated Plant Location Problem Under Uncertain Demand.- IV. Dynamic Programming And Game Theory.- Reward Allocations in Production Systems.- On the Existence of Sequential Equilibria in Markov Renewal Games.- Computing Optimal Checkpointing Policies: A Dynamic Programming Approach.- Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Problems in the Framework of Forecast and Decision Horizons.- V. Control Theory.- Decision Horizon, Overtaking and 1-Optimality Criteria in Optimal Control.- Bilinear Control: Geometric Properties of Reachable Sets.- Sufficient Conditions for Optimality and Supported Trajectories for Optimal Control Problems Governed by Volterra Integral Equations.- Behavioural Strategy of Some Controlled Predator-Prey Systems.- VI Economic Models.- A General Dynamic Model of Bargaining -- The Perfect Information Case.- Long-Run Macroeconometric Stabilisation Under BoundedUncertainty.- An Evolutionary Analysis of Product-Preference Structure: Toward Managerial Control.- Bertrand and Cournot Equilibrium Price Paths in a Nonrenewable Resource Differentiated Product Duopoly.- A Renegotiation -- Proof Solution for a Price Setting Duopoly.- Author Index.