Top researchers in optimization and control from around the world gathered in Detroit for the 18th annual IFIP TC7 Conference on Systems Modelling and Optimization held in July 1997. The papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from among the 250 plenary, invited, and contributed works presented at the conference. The editors chose these papers to represent the myriad and diverse range of topics within the field and to disseminate important new results. It includes recent results on a broad variety of modelling and control applications, particularly automotive modelling and control, along with recent theoretical advances.

Michael P Pollis

Distributed Parameter Systems
Control of Turbulent Flows
On Superstability of Semigroups
Stability of C0 -Semigroups and Stabilization of Linear Control Systems
A New Regularity Result in Transonic Gas Dynamics
On Some Equations about European Option Pricing
Hidden Shape Derivative in the Wave Equation
Hidden Boundary Smoothness in Hyperbolic Tangential Problems on Nonsmooth Domains
The Dam Problem: Safety Factor and Shape Optimization
Stability, Observers, and Compensators for Discrete-Time Delay Systems
Shape Control of Elastic Plates
Optimal Control and Nonsmooth Analysis
On Ritz Type Discretizations for Optimal Control Problems
Nontrivial Maximum Principle for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints
Abundant Subsets of Generalized Control Systems
Minimax Linear-Quadratic Controller Design
High-Order Approximations for Abnormal Bang-Bang Extremals
Directed Sets and Differences of Convex Compact Sets
Open-Loop Nash Equilibrium for Nonlinear Control Systems
Relaxed Minimax Optimal Control Problems. Infinite Horizon Case
Conjugate Points for Optimal Control Problems with State-Dependent Control Constraints
On Sufficient Conditions for a Strong Local Minimum of Broken Extremals in Optimal Control
Dynamical System with State Constraints: Theory and Applications
On Variational Analysis in Infinite Dimensions
L1-Closed Decomposable Sets in L*
Characterizations of Weak Sharp Minima of Order One in Nonlinear Programming
Second-Order Necessary Conditions in Nonsmooth Programming
Upper Hölder Continuity of Inverse Subdifferentials and the Proximal Point Algorithm
Optimization and Operations Research
Optimization Models and Algorithms of Constructing Reliable Networks
Higher Order Methods for Solving Sufficient Linear Complementarity Problems
A Linear Time Approximation Algorithm for a Storage Allocation Problem
General Framework in Analyzin