The first Joint Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Operations Research
Societies was held at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria,
from 22-24 September 1980. A selection of the papers then presented are
published in this volume. The papers included provide a picture of
Operations Research as a discipline comprehending various methods and
models. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part contains
papers on mathematical programming and optimal control theory. Moreover,
two papers on decision and game theory are included as well as two on
biomathematical to ics. Being more heterogeneous, the second part, on
stochastic models, includes such topics as queueing theory, econometrics
and time series analysis. As a special feature of the symposium, a
series of applications of OR models in energy planning were discussed,
e.g., load and demand forecasting, power distribution and extension
planning, reliability and work-safety, etc. These papers have been
incorporated into parts one and two according to the models used. GUSTAV
FEICHTINGER PETER !CALL Institut fUr Okonometrie und Institut fUr
Operations Research und Operations Research mathematische Methoden der
Wirtschafts- Technische UniversitHt wissenschaften Wien UniversitHt
ZUrich November 198 I ix Gustav Feichtinger and Peter Kall (eds.),
Operations Research in Progress, ix..