System modeling and optimization : proceedings of the 10th IFIP Conference, New York City, USA, August 31-September 4, 1981

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System modeling and optimization : proceedings of the 10th IFIP Conference, New York City, USA, August 31-September 4, 1981

edited by R.F. Drenick and F. Kozin

(Lecture notes in control and information sciences, 38)

Springer-Verlag, 1982

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Papers selected from those presented at the 10th IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization which was organized on behalf of the Technical Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing by the Polytechnic Institute of New York

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Computational problems in magnetic fusion research.- A simple model of a capital stock in equilibrium with the technology and the preferences.- Some numerical problems arising from linear systems.- Optimal shape design for elliptic systems.- Urban systems analysis and urban policy.- On the treatment of chronic forms of a disease according to a mathematical model.- The applicability of the Hamilton-Jacobi verification technique.- Stationary deterministic flows in discrete systems : I.- Recent trends of the optimal control for stochastic distributed parameter systems.- Models in the policy process: Past, present, and future.- A ritz-type approach to the calculation of optimal control for nonlinear, dynamic systems.- On lower closure and lower semicontinuity in the existence theory for optimal control.- A discrete maximum principle concerning the optimal cost of deterministic control problems.- On the computational complexity of clustering and related problems.- The application of vector minimisation techniques in the analysis of multiloop nonlinear feedback systems.- Singular steady state LQG problems: Estimation and optimization.- On a general method for solving time-optimal linear control problems.- Periodic solutions of discrete matrix Riccati equations with constant coefficient matrices.- A new scheme for discrete implicit observer and controller.- Reachable sets and generalized bang-bang principle for linear control systems.- Periodicity in optimal control and differential games.- Reduced approximations in parameter identification of hereditary systems.- The smoothing problem - a state space recursive computational approach: Applications to econometric time series with trends and seasonalities.- On observability and unbiased estimation of nonlinear systems.- An accelerated experimental design algorithm.- A robustized maximum entropy approach to system identification.- A problem of bilinear control in nonlinear coupled distributed parameter reactor systems.- Optimum maneuvers of a supercruiser.- Application of constrained constant optimal output feedback to modern flight control synthesis.- Advanced control laws for experiments in fast rollout and turnoff of the B737-100 aircraft.- Numerical simulation of an alloy solidification problem.- The threshold problem for a FitzHugh-Nagumo system.- Optimal design of a thermal diffuser with minimum weight.- Differential inclusions with multivalued boundary conditions.- On the optimal value function of optimization problems.- Finite element approximation of time optimal control problems for parabolic equations with Dirichelt boundary conditions.- Dirichlet boundary control problems for parabolic equations with quadratic cost: Analyticity and riccati's feedback synthesis.- Optimization in banach spaces of systems involving convex processes.- A decomposition algorithm for a second order elliptic operator using asymptotic expansions.- On the semi group approach for ergodic problems of optimal stopping.- The principal eigenvalue of a transport operator - an asymptotic expansion.- Shape sensitivity analysis for variational inequalities.- A cautious time-optimal control algorithm for stochastic control systems with additional boundary constraints.- On linear-quadratic-Gaussian control of systems with uncertain statistics.- A liapunov-like criterion and a first passage-time problems in non-linear stochastic systems.- Stability analtsis for large scale stochastic systems.- Algorithms for some simple infinite dimensional linear programs.- Entropy optimization via entropy projections.- Resolution of a quadratic combinatorial problem by dynamic programming.- The structure and computation of solutions to continuous linear programs.- The Bayesian approach to global optimization.- An optimization model for energy saving in the heating of buildings.- An optimal dispatching strategy for vehicles in a transportation system.- Asynchronous parallel search in global optimization problems.- A class of methods for the solution of optimization problems with inequalities.- A probabilistic approach to the minimization of stochastic functions by sequential, near-conjugate sampling.- Extensions to subroutine VFO2AD.- On globally stabalized quasi-Newton methods for inequality constrained optimization problems.- Quasi-newton methods for a class of nonsmooth constrained optimization problems.- Probabilistic analysis of the solution of the knapsack problem.- A linear time algorithm to minimize maximum lateness for the two-machine, unit-time, job-shop, scheduling problem.- An approximate solution for the problem of optimizing the plotter pen movement.- Optimal control with constrained binary sequences.- Generalized augmenting paths for the solution of combinatorial optimization problems.- A versatile interconnection pattern laid on O(n) area.- Rank, clique and chromatic number of a graph.- Extensions of some two-dimensional bin packing algorithms.- Optimization in hierarchical setting of a simple world industrialization model.- Long term nuclear scheduling in the French power system.- Prediction of socio-economic policy: Information gain by interactive decision activities.- Quality assurance specifications for time dependent aerometric data.- Labor market implications of technical change in a multi-regional multi-sectoral system.- Functional sensitivity analysis of mathematical models.- On the role of the impulse fixed cost in stochastic optimal control. An application to the management of energy production.- Water distribution network self-tuning control.- Conflicts over north sea oil profits and macro-economic policy.- The gathering of a commodity through a periodic marketing ring.- Forecasting sectorial outputs under uncertainty.- Acceptable equilibria in dynamic bargaining games.- Cyclical taxonomy and large econometric models.- Antipollution activities in input-output analysis.- Modelling and control of market penetration.- Equilibrium advertising in an oligopoly with Nerlove-Arrow advertising dynamics: Existence and stability.- Applications of advances in nonlinear sensitivity analysis.- Freeway incident detection based on stochastic dynamic models of traffic variables.- Identification of synchronous machine parameters for stability models, using synchronizing tests.- A contribution to the optimal generation schedulling of large hydrothermal power systems.- Modeling of fourdrinier paper making machines and basis weight control.- Phase frequency approximation in system model reduction.- Control applications in analyzing transportation system performance under dynamic constraints.- To the temporal aggregation in discrete dynamical systems.- Graphical techniques used for a dynamic chemical process simulation.- Scheduling maintenance operations which cause age-dependent failure rate changes.- Optimal maintenance policy and sale date for a machine with random deterioration and subject to random catastrophic failure.- Analysis of a distribution transformer inventory system.- Experimental, analytical and computational study of a simplified maximal height jump.- An innovations approach to cardiac hemodynamics modeling.- Modelization of a multiprocessor architecture.- A new method to handle the left-recursions for top-down parsing in compiler design.

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