JOTA

JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS



GENERAL INFORMATION


Published monthly at 71 Winterstoke, Road. Bristol BS3 2NT, England, by Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013. In 1997, Volumes 92, 93, 94, and 95 (3 issues each) will be published. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications is abstracted or indexed in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts Journal, Computing Reviews, Current Contents, Engineering Index, Information Science Abstracts, Mathematical Reviews, Referativnyi Zhurnal, Science Citation Index, and Zentralblatt für Mathematik. © 1997 Plenum Publishing Corporation. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications participates in the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service. The appearance of a code line at the bottom of the first page of an article in this journal indicates the copyright owner's consent that copies of the article may be made for personal or internal use. However, this consent is given on the condition that the copier pay the flat fee of $12.50 per copy per article (no additional per-page fees) directly to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Denver, Massachusetts 0l923, for all copying not explicitly permitted by Sections 107 or 105 of the U.S. Copyright Law. The CCC is a nonprofit clearinghouse for the payment of photocopying fees by libraries and other users registered with the CCC. Therefore, this consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, such as copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale, nor to the reprinting of figures, tables, and text excerpts, 0022-3239/97 $12.50

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