Extremal Methods and Systems Analysis An International Symposium on the Occasion of Professor Abraham Charnes’ Sixtieth Birthday Austin, Texas, September 13 – 15, 1977

The papers appearing in this Volume were selected from a collec­ tion of papers presented at the Internationa~ Symposium on Extrema~ Methods and Systems Ana~ysis on the Occasion of Professor A. Charnes' 60th Birthday, at the University of Texas in Austin, 13-15 September 1977. As coeditors, we...

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Other Authors: Fiacco, A. V. (Editor), Kortanek, K. O. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1980, 1980
Edition:1st ed. 1980
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
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Table of Contents:
  • Recent and Past Developments in theSimplicial Approximation Approach to Solving Nonlinear Equations—A Subjective View
  • Global Continuation Methods for Finding All Solutions to Polynomial Systems of Equations in N Variables
  • Worst-case Behavior of Local Fixed-point Algorithms
  • X Stochastic, Dynamic, and Markov Models
  • Quality Control and Free Boundary Problems
  • The Use of Stochastic Programming for the Solution of Some Problems in Statistics and Probability
  • Authors, Participants, and Affiliations
  • Acting Associate Editors
  • The Symposium Committee
  • Convergence Properties of Powers of Matrices with Applications to Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems
  • V Transportation and Networks
  • A Network Augmenting Path Basis Algorithm for Transshipment Problems
  • More on the More for Less Paradox in the Distribution Model
  • VI Game Theory
  • The Nash Solution as a Model of Rational Bargaining
  • Computing the Core of a Market Game
  • VII Mathematical Programming Theory
  • Second Order Theory of Extremum Problems
  • An Elementary Treatment of Lagrange Multipliers
  • Representation of Convex Sets
  • On One-row Linear Programs
  • Duality in Fuzzy Linear Programming
  • VIII Mathematical Programming Computations
  • Fractional Programming with Zero-one Variables
  • Quadratic Termination of Conjugate Gradient Algorithms
  • Rectilinear Distance Location-Allocation Problem: A Simplex Based Algorithm
  • IX Complementarity and Fixed Point Theory
  • I Historical Perspectives
  • A Biography of Professor A. Charnes and His Scientific Work
  • Abraham Charnes—A Strategy for Research and a Record of Results
  • Publications of A. Charnes
  • II Economic Modeling and Equilibrium
  • Multi-page Format Economic Systems
  • The Need for Dynamic Extensions of General-Equilibrium Methods
  • A Few Words on Application of Optimization Methods to Economic Problems
  • III. Planning and Decision Models
  • Designing Investment Strategies for Fixed-Income Portfolios
  • Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Discrete Alternatives with Ordinal Criteria
  • IV. Generalized Inverses and Matrices
  • Generalized Inverses of Matrices and Their Applications
  • Cost-flow Networks and Generalized Inverses
  • The Weighted Generalized Inverse in Nonlinear Programming—Active Set Selection Using a Variablemetric Generalization of the Simplex Algorithm