1. Preface

   • Anatoly Zhigljavsky

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. On a continuous time stochastic approximation problem

   • G. Yin
   • Ishita Gupta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 20

3. Unbiased estimates for gradients of stochastic network performance measures

   • Nikolai Krivulin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 43

4. Experimental design for estimating the optimum point in a response surface

   • Luc Pronzato
   • Eric Walter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 68

5. Semiparametric statistical inference in global random search

   • Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 88

6. Speed of convergence as a function of given accuracy for random search methods

   • V. V. Nekrutkin
   • A. S. Tikhomirov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 108

7. On global optimization in two-dimensional scaling

   • Rudolf Mathar
   • Antanas Žilinskas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 118