Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as well as the classical techniques of applied mathematics. This renewal of interest, both in re- search and teaching, has led to the establishment of the series Texts in Applied Mathematics (TAM). The development of new courses is a natural consequence of a high level of excitement on the research frontier as newer techniques, such as numeri- cal and symbolic computer systems, dynamical...

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as well as the classical techniques of applied mathematics. This renewal of interest, both in re- search and teaching, has led to the establishment of the series Texts in Applied Mathematics (TAM). The development of new courses is a natural consequence of a high level of excitement on the research frontier as newer techniques, such as numeri- cal and symbolic computer systems, dynamical...

Vom 18. bis 20. September 1974 trafen sich wiederum uber 300 OR-Fachleute und am Operations Research Interessierte zu der inzwischen schon zur Tradition gewordenen Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft ftir Operations Research, um Erfahrungen aus zutauschen, uber Probleme und Methoden zu diskutieren, und um ihren Beitrag zum Fortschritt des Operations Research zu leisten. Man traf sich dieses Mal in der in vielen Hinsichten ausserst reizvollen Stadt Wurzburg, die einen zugleich wurdevollen als auch 'anregenden Rahmen ftir den Gedankenaustausch bot. Die Tatsache, dass Wurzburg der Sitz des...

The book of Professor Evtushenko describes both the theoretical foundations and the range of applications of many important methods for solving nonlinear programs. Particularly emphasized is their use for the solution of optimal control problems for ordinary differential equations. These methods were instrumented in a library of programs for an interactive system (DISO) at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which can be used to solve a given complicated problem by a combination of appropriate methods in the interactive mode. Many examples show the strong as well the weak...