This volume contains the proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Operations Research (SOR' 97) held at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Sep tember 3-5, 1997. The symposium was organized under the auspices of the two German societies on Operations Research, namely the Deutsche Gesellschajt fur Operations Research (DGOR) and the Gesellschajt fur Mathematik, Okonomie und Operations Research (GMOOR). During their annual business meetings, the DGOR and GMOOR members unanimously decided that their societies should be assimi lated by the newly founded Gesellschajt fur Operations Research (GOR). The SOR' 97 meeting was attended by 521 participants from 31 countries. The presentation of 360 papers was organized in 16 sections, each of which also saw semiplenary lectures by prominent invited speakers. Plenary lectures by J.K. Lenstra and P. Mertens as well as a panel discussion on the role of new communication media represented major academic events of the symposium. 131 papers were submitted for publication in the present volume. The space limitation and the advice of the section chairpersons only allowed for the inclusion of 85 contributed papers in the proceedings. Additionally, written versions of seven semiplenary lectures could be included in the volume. The abstracts of all 360 papers presented at the symposium can be obtained in electronic form from the WWW at http://www.wiwLuni-jena.de/sor97.html.

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This book contains selected papers of SOR'97, the annual joint meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Operations Research (DGOR) and the Gesellschaft für Mathematik, Ökonomie und Operations Research (GMÖÖR), held at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena from September 3-5, 1997. The 85 most innovative and scientifically most relevant contributed papers which were organized in 16 sections deal with diverse topics such as operations research, mathematics and statistics, business computing and economics. Seven sections are introduced by written versions of invited semiplenary lectures given by prominent representatives of their fields.

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Section 1: Linear Programming.- Section 2: Nonlinear Programming.- Section 3: Combinatorial and Discrete Optimization.- Section 4: Graph Algorithms and Complexity.- Section 5: Stochastic Models and Optimization.- Section 6: Control Theory.- Section 7: Statistics and Econometrics.- Section 8: Macroeconomics, Economic Theory.- Section 9: Decision Theory, Game Theory.- Section 10: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Fuzzy Systems.- Section 11: Information and Decision Support Systems, Workflow Systems.- Section 12: Banking, Finance, Insurance.- Section 13: Scheduling.- Section 14: Production and Inventory.- Section 15: Transportation and Logistics.- Section 16: Environment, Energy, Health.- List of Authors and Co-Authors.