This volume contains two review articles: "Stochastic Pro- gramming" by Vo V. Kolbin, and "Application of Queueing-Theoretic Methods in Operations Research, " by N. Po Buslenko and A. P. Cherenkovo The first article covers almost all aspects of stochastic programming. Many of the results presented in it have not pre- viously been surveyed in the Soviet literature and are of interest to both mathematicians and economists. The second article com- prises...