Special issue of the Czech Society for Operations Research

Abstract

This special issue contains selected papers of the 28th International ConferenceMathematical Methods in Economics (MME) that took place in the city of Ceske Budejovice in September 2010. It is a traditional annual meeting of professionals from universities and business who are interested in the theory and applications of operations research and econometrics organized by the Czech Society for Operations Research (CSOR) together with the Czech Econometric Society in various places within the Czech Republic. The number of participants is rapidly increasing in the last years. Usually between 100 and 200 professionals are presenting their research results every year. Although the conference is the annual meeting of the CSOR there are always participants from all around the world especially from surrounding countries as Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, etc. Accepted papers presented at the conference are published in the Book of Proceedings that is indexed in CPCI (Conference Proceedings Citation Index) since 2003. Main organizer of theConferenceMME is theCSOR. It is a quite small professional society with approx. 50 regular members but its activities are numerous. Except the mentioned international conference Mathematical Methods in Economics the main international activity was organization of the 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII in 2007. This conference was organized by the CSOR in cooperation with the University of Economics, Prague. EURO XXII was a very successful event, by attending of more than two thousands of participants from all over the world it was one of the largest EURO conferences at all. The conferencesMME cover both theoretical and application aspects of mathematical modeling of economic processes. The scope of the conference involves operations