System Modelling and Optimization: Methods, Theory and Applications. 19th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization July 12-16, 1999, Cambridge, UK

by M.J.D. Powell (Editor), S. Scholtes (Editor)

Overview

System Modelling and Optimization covers research issues within systems theory, optimization, modelling, and computing. It includes contributions to structural mechanics, integer programming, nonlinear programming, interior point methods, dynamical systems, stability analysis, shastic optimization, bilevel optimization, and semidefinite programming. Several survey papers written by leading experts in their fields complement new developments in theory and applications.
This book contains most of the invited papers and a few carefully selected submitted papers that were presented at the 19th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, which was held in Cambridge, England, from July 12 to 16, 1999, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792378815
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/2000
Series:	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology , #46
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Michael J.D. Powell is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Applied Numerical Analysis in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Stefan Scholtes holds a joint Lectureship in the Judge Institute of Management Studies and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Topology Design of Structures, Materials and Mechanisms — Status and Perspectives.- MIP: Theory and Practice — Closing the Gap Robert.- On the Role of Natural Level Functions to Achieve Global Convergence for Damped Newton Methods.- Computational Experience with a Parallel Implementation of an Interior-Point Algorithm for Multicommodity Network Flows.- Modelling the Behavior of Systems: Basic Concepts and Algorithms.- Lipschitzian Stability of Newton’s Method for Variational Inclusions.- SQP Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming.- Algorithmic Implications of Duality in Shastic Programs.- A Model which Integrates Strategic and Tactical Aspects of Forest Harvesting.- Optimization of Chemical Processes Under Uncertainty.- Numerical Solution to the Acoustic Homicidal Chauffeur Game.- Application of a Micro-Genetic Algorithm in Optimal Design of a Diffractive Optical Element.- Semidefinite and Lagrangian Relaxations for Hard Combinatorial Problems.- Recent Developments in Interior-Point Methods.- Other Papers that were Presented at the Conference.