System modelling and optimization : proceedings of the 13th IFIP Conference, Tokyo, Japan, August 31-September 4, 1987

Trust regions and projected gradients.- How to cope with grey part of management -system modelling and optimization in Japanese industry.- Optimal control discrete-time systems.- Control problems under insufficient information.- Application of optimization-based methods in control system design.- Modelling support system for system dynamics.- Stability and control of linear periodic systems.- On stochastic control problems : An algorithm for the value function and the optimal policy - some applications.- Solving slp recourse problems: The case of stochastic technology matrix, RHS & objective.- Optimal input for autoregressive model discrimination based on the Kullback's divergence.- Identification of linear discrete-time stochastic system using covariance information.- Optimum state estimation using a new class of robust doubly optimized recursive estimators.- Chandrasekahr filtering and smoothing methods given covariance model and properties of X and Y functions.- New approach to image modelling with application to restoration problems.- Higher order sensitivity of solutions to convex programming problems without strict complementarity.- Distributed nonlinear optimization algorithms for general network problems.- A multiplex algorithm for linear programming problems.- Newton-type algorithms with nonmonotone line search for large-scale unconstrained optimization.- Centered newton method for mathematical programming.- Application of generalized raiffa solution to multicriteria bargaining support.- Recent results on nondifferentiable exact penalty functions.- A penalty function formulation for interactive multiobjective programming problems.- Multicriteria optimization in the diso system.- Sensitivity analysis of a descriptor distributed parameter system and its application to shape optimization.- Existence of an optimal domain in a domain optimization problem.- Second order necessary optimality conditions for domain optimization problem with a Neumann problem.- Optimal sensor and actuator locations in distributed parameter systems.- Modelling of flexible manipulator arms.- Column/constraint generation for quadratic assignment problems.- A prallel algorithm for the machine scheduling problem.- Optimal tradeoff among delay, throughput and fairness in flow controlled networks.- Distributed computing of a stochastic algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems.- Hierarchical simulated annealing optimization in partition problem.- A mixed integer 0-1 programming heuristic for resource allocation in a decentralized system.- Symbolic treatment of geometric degeneracies.- A space efficient algorithm for the greedy triangulation.- On the reachability region of a ladder in two convex polygons.- Computational geometry with restricted orientations.- A population-type model of car market dynamics.- Model for blast furnace on-line simulation.- A coverage Monte Carlo method for reliability quantification.- Transportation investment and dynamic equilibrium in a multiregional input-output system.- Modelling and optimization of public traffic large scale systems.- Incentive stackelberg strategies in linear quadratic differential games with two noncooperative followers.- Stackelberg game model incorporating public participation for electric generating system development.- Cooperative fuzzy game with side-payments.- Dynamic simulation and optimal control of urban Socio-Economic and Eco-Environment system.- Application of multicriteria optimization to structural systems.- Application of optimization methods in structural systems reliability theory.- Safety assessment of bridges during construction.- Conventional & reliability comparison study of various.- Energy optimization in industrial models.- Discretization and markov modeling of a state variable in dynamic programming.- Power generator control by variable structure control theory.- Automatic generation control in hydro-thermal electric power system.- Stochastic model for optimal gas exploitation.- A resource planning and management system for pine plantations in fiji.- A stochastic growth model for even-aged single-species forest stands.- Modelling forest mosaics.- Forestry applications of operations research.- Aggregation of ecological networks based on information theory.- Constrained cross-validation applied to estimation of kinetic parameters of cell populations in perturbed growth.- On the choice of parameters in mathematical models of immunological tolerance.- A mathematical model of trophic interaction of biopopulations of biological systems.- Optimal planning for operating a production process with a buffer and an electric power plant.- Computer aided sawmill design and evaluation.- Online application of large scale linear programming to pulp and paper mill by mini-computer.- Investigation and optimization of reliability of transport networks.- An optimal solution of the assembly line balancing problem with the balancing index as a primary objective function.- Scheduling flow-shops with parallel machines and finite in-process buffers by multilevel programming.- Solution methods of plants location dynamic problems in continuous-time.- A method of congestion control in the computer network node.- Program optimization with logic program transformation.- The sensitivity of some recognition algorithms for printed Arabic characters.- Analysis of a time-shared central server system with heterogeneous distributed stations.- Parallel ray tracing on a cellular array processor.- The FPS T series supercomputer.