Research and Applied Projects at Paul Stähly’s Institute for Operations Research.- 1: Optimization.- Environmental Policy Design and the Economics of Crime: Some Analogies in Intertemporal Optimization.- On Cross Decomposition for Mixed-Integer Programming.- Optimal and Neuro-Dynamic Programming Solutions for a Stochastic Inventory Transportation Problem.- Modeling Approaches for Median Relations.- A Note on the “More-for-Less” Paradox.- Project Experiences and Some Principal Considerations Concerning Operations Research as an Interesting Branch of Science.- 2: Operations Research Models.- Concepts, Aims, and Problems which Modelling in OR and OOP Have in Common.- On the Use and Misuse of Holding Cost Models.- From the Publisher to the Wholesalers - Determination of the Number of Copies and Their Distribution among the Wholesalers.- Scheduling Scarce Resources in Chemical Engineering.- Short-Term Planning of Batch Plants in Process Industries.- Local Search for a Travelling Salesman Problem in Production Control: A Case Study.- Transportation Problems.- Operational Planning and Optimization of Hub-and Spoke Transportation Networks for Area Wide Groupage Services.- Stochastic Programming: Achievements and Open Problems.- 3: Decision Support and Management Systems.- Infrastructure for CRISIS-2000 A Distributed Disaster Management System.- Decision Making Based on Causal Graphs.- On the Effect of the Bargaining Context on Bargaining Behaviour.- Income Tax Rate: Properties and Implications.- Knowledge Management — Challenges and the “KNOWING”- Implementation Strategy.- Perturbation Heuristics for Unconstrained Quadratic 0–1 Programming and an Alternate Stopping and Comparison Criterium.- Solving Conflicts and Sanctions: Results of an Experimental Study.