Ulrike Leopold Wildburger Libri

This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (SOR 2002).The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of Operations Research and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Production, Marketing and Data Analysis, Transportation and Traffic, Scheduling and Project Management, Telecommunication and Information Technology, Energy and Environment, Public Economy, Health, Agriculture, Education, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Risk Management, Continuous Optimization, Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic and Dynamic Programming, Simulation, Control Theory, Systems Dynamics, Dynamic Games, Game Theory, Auctioning and Bidding, Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Statistics and Mathematical Economics, Fuzzy Logic, Multicriteria Decision Making, Decision Theory.

Franz Ferschl is seventy. According to his birth certificate it is true, but it is unbelievable. Two of the three editors remembers very well the Golden Age of Operations Research at Bonn when Franz Ferschl worked together with Wilhelm Krelle, Martin Beckmann and Horst Albach. The importance of this fruitful cooperation is reflected by the fact that half of the contributors to this book were strongly influenced by Franz Ferschl and his colleagues at the University of Bonn. Clearly, Franz Ferschl left his traces at all the other places of his professional activities, in Vienna and Munich. This is demonstrated by the present volume as well. Born in 1929 in the Upper-Austrian Miihlviertel, his scientific education brought him to Vienna where he studied mathematics. In his early years he was attracted by Statistics and Operations Research. During his employment at the Osterreichische Bundeskammer fUr Gewerbliche Wirtschaft in Vienna he prepared his famous book on queueing theory and stochastic processes in economics. This work has been achieved during his scarce time left by his duties at the Bundeskammer, mostly between 6 a. m. and midnight. All those troubles were, however, soon rewarded by the chair of statistics at Bonn University. As a real Austrian, the amenities of the Rhineland could not prevent him from returning to Vienna, where he took the chair of statistics.

Der Band „Verfassen und Vortragen“ behandelt alle wichtigen Fragen beim Erstellen und Präsentieren wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten. Die einzelnen Schritte werden detailliert beschrieben und an Beispielen erläutert. Die Darstellung erstreckt sich vom Entwurf eines Arbeitsplans über Recherchen, Themenfindung und Konzeption bis hin zur Ausarbeitung unter Berücksichtigung einschlägiger formaler Kriterien. Dabei werden insbesondere Textverarbeitungssysteme, Datenmanagement mit neuen Medien und das Internet berücksichtigt. Dem gelungenen Vortrag - bei Tagungen, im Seminar oder in der Sprechstunde - wird ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet. Aufgrund langjähriger Lehrtätigkeit haben die Autoren eine Reihe von Kniffen und Tipps zusammengestellt. Auf diese Weise entstand ein unentbehrlicher Leitfaden für Diplomanden und Doktoranden sowie für Schüler höherer Jahrgangsstufen.