By Valery Fedorov, Chris Nachtsheim (auth.), Dr. Christos P. Kitsos, Dr. Werner G. Müller (eds.)
This quantity is the complaints of the 4th overseas Workshop on Model-Oriented information research. This sequence of occasions originated in 1987 at a gathering in Eisenach, that effectively introduced jointly scientists from various nations of the 'East ' and 'West'. Now that this contrast is out of date discussion has been enormously facilitated, offering possibilities for this discussion, besides the fact that, is as very important as ever. the current assembly at Spetses, Greece from fifth to ninth of June 1995 back assembles statisticians from around the globe as this ebook records. The hospitality provided via the collage of Economics of Athens and the Korgialenios university made it attainable to arrange this workshop. The editors also are thankful to Intracom (Greece), the Ionian financial institution and the Procter & Gamble corporation (USA) for his or her beneficiant aid. we might quite prefer to point out Dr. Michael Meredith, who being our touch individual at Procter & Gamble, enabled us to post those lawsuits. additional thank you visit Dr. Peter Schuster from Physica Verlag Heidelberg for his carrying on with aid of the venture. The contributions to this quantity have been rigorously chosen from the submissions by way of the editors after a one degree refereeing method. we want to thank the contributors of the MODA committee, A.C. Atkinson, R.D. cook dinner, V.V. Fedorov, P.Hackl, H. Lauter, B.Torsney, LN. Vuchkov, H.P.Wynn,and A.A. Zhigljavsky, who not just outlined the most subject matters of the workshop, but in addition served because the referees.