Constructing and Applying Objective Functions

I Opening Speech.- Opening Remarks: A Retrospection over 35 Years of Work.- II Keynote Addresses.- Decision Models and Preferences: The Pioneering Contributions of Ragnar Frisch.- Experiments with Preference Functions.- III Representation of Preferences by Objective Functions.- On the Extension of Utility Functions.- Numerical Representation of Binary Relations with Multiplicative Error Function: A General Case.- IV Form of Objective Functions and Choice Operators.- Utility Functions, Prices, and Cost Functions on a Lattice of Information Commodities.- A Structure of Joint Irreducible Sets for Classically Rationalizable Choice Operators.- V Constructing Objective Functions from Interviews.- A Unified Model for Cardinally and Ordinally Constructing Quadratic Objective Functions.- Constructing Separable Objective Functions.- VI Optimization Issues of Objective Functions.- Constructing Utility Functions by Methods of Nondifferentiable Optimization.- Adjusting an Objective Function to a Given Optimal Solution in Linear and Linear-fractional Programming.- VII Applications of Objective Functions.- An Objective Function of Artificial Psychology for a Computer System of Fashion Fitting.- Ranking of Second-hand Policies.- Experience in Using Recursive Utility Theory.- A Model for Management of a Gas-field.- Constructing Quadratic Objective Functions by Linear Programming with an Application to Pure Exchange.- Choice of Customer Products on the Basis of a Decision Model.- VIn Objective Functions of Economic Policy.- Decision Support Multifunctional System “Ukrainian Budget”.- Towards an Objective Function for Slovenian Fiscal Policy-making: A Heuristic Approach.- IX Resource Allocation with Objective Functions.- On Distributed Resource Allocation in a Communication System.- Social Equilibria for Competitive Resource Allocation Models.- Reallocation of Budgets with an Objective function.- X Consumer Behavior and Equilibrium Applications.- A Generalization of the Nonparametric Method in Case of Trade Statistics not Satisfying the Hypothesis of Rational Behavior.- Variation Principles in Models of Economic Equilibrium.- Uniformly Most Powerful Tests for Optimum Equilibrium.- XI Objective Functions in Game Theory.- A Family of the Least Power Values for Cooperative TU Games.- Goal Programming Solutions Generated by Utility Functions.- Social Welfare Functions for Different Subgroup Utility Scales.- XII Decision Support Systems.- Statistical Games for Discrete Distributions.- A Computer Program for Constructing Quadratic Objective Functions.- Conference Participants Foto by Andranik Tangian.