Modeli i metody matematicheskogo programmirovaniya v usloviyakh defitsita informatsii ispol"zuyutsya v tekhnike, ekonomike, biologii, voennom dele i drugikh oblastyakh chelovecheskoy deyatel"nosti. Modeli i metody stokhasticheskogo programmirovaniya adekvatnee drugikh sovremennykh formal"nykh metodov prisposobleny k analizu slozhnykh sistem, k podgotovke i vyboru optimal"nykh i kompromissnykh resheniy v slozhnykh situatsiyakh. Predstavleny odnoetapnye, dvukhetapnye i mnogoetapnye modeli s veroyatnostnymi usloviyami i funktsionalami, mnogokriterial"nye i igrovye postanovki zadach. Privedeny metody optimizatsii sootvetstvuyushchikh ekvivalentov iskhodnykh modeley. Issledovany problemy ustoychivosti resheniy i tselevykh funktsionalov. Rabota soderzhit bol"shoe chislo prikladnykh zadach v usloviyakh defitsita informatsii. V osnovu raboty polozheny materialy lektsiy spetskursa « Stokhasticheskoe programmirovanie», chitayushchegosya avtorom s 1967 goda studentam Sankt – Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Bibliografiya i dopolnitel"nyy spisok literatury naschityvaet 660 naimenovaniy.