Computation of the Switching Times in Optimal Control Problems of Bang-Bang Type.- Methodes d'optimisation dans la theorie du controle.- A Comparison of Some Recent Iterative Methods for the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Programs.- Problems in Optimal Control of Macroeconomic Systems.- Economic Optimization by Simulation: The Confidence Level Approach.- A Programme for Orbit Determination Associated with Launching and Station Keeping of 24 Hour Satellites.- Optimal Manpower Training.- Optimal Control of a Nuclear Reactor Power Plant.- Control with Bounded Inputs.- Critere de convergence par approxima- tion de l'optimum pour la methode du gradient.- Statistical Optimization of Circuit Design.- New Algorithms for Determining Optimal Control: A Differential Dynamic Programming Approach.- Successive Linearization and Nonlinear Filtering.- Modeling and Adjoints for Continuous Systems.- Variational Approach to the Gradient Method: Theory and Numerical Experiments.- Optimization of a Quasistochastic Class of Multiperiod Investments.- Optimisation of Electrical Network Responses.- Obtaining Fuel- Optimal Controls for Linear Time-Varying Plants by Newton's Method.- Reactor Control Via State Variable Feedback.