Operations Research in Progress

Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies, Vienna, September 22-24, 1980 Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 An Optimality Condition and its Application to Parametric Semi-Infinite Optimization....Pages 3-16 The Choice of a Parameter in a Penalty Method....Pages 17-26 Recent Results on Φ-Conjugation and Nonconvex Optimization....Pages 27-40 On Quantitative Stability Of Point-to-Set-Mappings and the Rate of Convergence of Corresponding Algorithms....Pages 41-48 On the Penalization Method in Convex Stochastic Programming....Pages 49-55 A New Algorithm of Solving the Flow — Shop Problem....Pages 57-75 On Dynamic Traffic Assignment....Pages 77-91 On an Approximation Problem of Mechanical Structural Otpimization....Pages 93-101 Optimal Daily Scheduling of the Electricity Production in Hungary....Pages 103-114 Power Distribution Planning and the Application of Linear Mixed-Integer Programming....Pages 115-123 Optimal Flood Control by Reservoir Systems using the Reduced Gradient Method....Pages 125-136 Instant Optimization of Hydro Energy Storage Plants....Pages 137-154 Dynamic Programming in Power System Extension Planning....Pages 155-163 Some New Multicriteria Approaches....Pages 165-184 Equilibrium Selection in a Wage Bargaining Situation with Incomplete Information....Pages 185-202 Planning and Forecast Horizons in a Simple Wheat Trading Model....Pages 203-214 Intertemporal Reversals of Environmental and Macroeconomic Policies....Pages 215-225 Optimal control of concave economic models with two control instruments....Pages 227-245 Optimal Control with Switching Dynamics....Pages 247-260 Dynamic Systems with Several Decision-Makers....Pages 261-284 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Optimal Bimodal Harvest Policies in Age-Specific Bioeconomic Models....Pages 285-299 Growth Rates, Optimal Harvesting and Related Topics in the Mass Rearing of Tsetse Flies....Pages 301-310 The Release of Partly Fertile Males or Females in the Application of the Sterile-Insect Technique: Mathematical Analysis of the Hard-Release Strategy....Pages 311-329 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 New Developments in Optimal Control of Queueing Systems....Pages 333-349 Estimation and Control in GI|M| 1-System....Pages 351-366 On Discriminating Among Stochastic Models — A Survey....Pages 367-379 Increasing the Work-Safety in Nuclear Power Plants through the Use of Preventive Maintenance Policies....Pages 381-398 Recent Developments in Econometrics....Pages 399-411 Slight Misspecifications of Linear Systems....Pages 413-424 Local Sensitivity Analysis and Matrix Derivatives....Pages 425-443 Analysis and Forecasting of Demand for Electricity Using Time Series Analysis....Pages 445-457 Short Term Load Prediction in Electric Power Systems....Pages 459-477 Interactive short-Term Load Forecasting....Pages 479-487 Predicting the Demand for Electricity — An Application of Transfer function Analysis....Pages 489-496 Problems Associated with the Design of a Reliability Model in Electricity Industry....Pages 497-509