1st Edition

Systems Modelling and Optimization Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC7 Conference

    528 Pages
    by Chapman & Hall

    528 Pages
    by Chapman & Hall

    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 offered in this volume were 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 -in theory and applications-and to disseminate important new results.
    The editors have organized the book into seven sections:

  • Distributed Parameter Systems
  • Modelling
  • Optimal Control and Nonsmoooth Analysis
  • Automotive
  • Optimization and Operations Research
  • Applications
    · Reliability

    Each section contains important advances in theoretical development of optimization and control, new results, and discussions of applications. Treatment of numerous and wide- ranging applications-from turbulent flows, European option pricing, and storage location, to wear processes, passive fire protection, and robotics-make this resource important for academic and industrial researchers working in a variety of areas in systems engineering and applied mathematics.
  • 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 Analyzing Mobile Terminal Tracking Protocols
    Risk Sensitive Optimal Control of Wear Processes: the Vector Case
    Deadlock in Manufacturing Systems: Application of its Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
    Failure-Prone Production Systems with Uncertain Demand
    Transient Distribution of Cumulative Rate and Impulse Based Reward with Applications
    Reliability
    Reliability Based Optimization of Passive Fire Protection on Offshore Topsides
    Evaluation of the Quality of an Option Compared to its Alternatives
    Control Charts for Monitoring the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution
    A General and Simple Approach to Economic Process Control
    Sequential Change Point Detection and Estimation for Multiple Alternative Hypothesis
    Modelling
    Modelling Methodologies for Modelling Environments
    An Advanced Modelling Environment Based on a Hybrid AI-OR Approach
    Interactive Fuzzy Modelling System
    Rule-Based Design and 2D-Analysis of a Hybrid System
    A Mathematical Model for Control of Flexible Robot Arms
    Automotive
    Identification of Powertrain Noise in a Low SNR Environment Using Synchronous Time Averaging
    Hot Wire Mass Air Flow Sensor Modelling and Lag Compensation
    Dynamic Clustering Technique with Application to Onboard Traffic Monitoring
    Modelling of Currents in a Zirconium Oxygen Sensor
    Issue in Modelling and Control of Intake Flow in Variable Geometry Turbocharged Engines
    Robust Controller Based on Smith Predictor for an Electric EGR Valve Control System
    Applications
    Robust Controller Design for a VTOL Plane
    Optimal Control of Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems with Corrective Maintenance
    Generation and Analysis of a Non-Linear Optimization Problem: European Ozone Model Case Study
    Adaptive Stochastic Path Planning for Robots-Real Time optimization by Means of Neural Networks
    Control of Molecular Dynamics

    Biography

    Michael P Pollis