Fifth Conference on Optimization Techniques. Rome 1973

Some aspects of urban systems of relevance to optimisation techniques.- Selection of optimal industrial clusters for regional development.- Optimal investment policies in transportation networks.- An on-line optimization procedure for an urban traffic system.- Hierarchical strategies for the on-line control of urban road traffic signals.- Application of optimization approach to the problem of land use plan design.- Combinatorial optimization and preference pattern aggregation.- A microsimulation model of the health care system in the United States: The role of the physician services sector.- A model for finite stroage message switching networks.- On constrained diameter and medium optimal spanning trees.- Simulation techniques for the study of modulated communication channels.- Gestion Optimale d'un Ordinateur Multiprogramme a Memoire Virtuelle.- State-space approach in problem-solving optimization.- Perturbation theory and the statement of inverse problems.- A model for the evaluation of alternative policies for atmospheric pollutant source emissions (Masc model).- Mathematical modelling of a nordic hydrological system, and the use of a simplified run-off model in the stochastic optimal control of a hydroelectrical power system.- A two-dimensional model for the Lagoon of Venice.- Sea level prediction models for Venice.- Optimal estuary aeration: An application of distributed parameter control theory.- Interactive simulation program for water flood routing systems.- An automatic river planning operating system (ARPOS).- On the optimal control on an infinite planning horizon of consumption, pollution, population and natural resource use.- Limited role of entropy in information economics.- On a dual control approach to the pricing policies of a trading specialist.- Problems of optimal economic investments with finite lifetime capital.- Some economic models of markets.- Utilization of heuristics in manufacturing planning and optimization.- Economic simulation of a