System Modelling and Optimization : Proceedings of the 12th IFIP Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 2-6, 1985

Mathematical modelling and optimization of PVC powder blending process for development of multilevel, optimized process control system.- An economic approach for optimum long-term plant mix choice.- An algorithm for getting a minimum cut-set of a graph.- Optimal design of a remote heating network.- Computational complexity of some semiinfinite programming methods.- The calculation of menpower for aircraft ground service.- Discontinuous adaptive control of non minimum phase linear plants.- Optimal control of the storage power plant system Gosau.- Stochastic control in urban traffic.- Throughput optimization of packet communication networks.- Performance analysis of data link and communication device control procedures in distributed Micro/Mini computer systems.- Optimal control methods for power system operation.- Models and methods for estimating an origin-destination trip matrix from network data.- Optimal control of age-structured populations.- Skew-symmetric matrices, staircase functions and theorems of the alternative.- Stabilization of the secant method via quasi-newton approach.- Assignment problems: Recent solution methods and applications.- Optimal control as a tool for solving the stationnary Euler equation with periodic boundary conditions.- Optimization problems for two-stage process of resource allocation.- Balanced realisations for infinite-dimensional discrete-time systems.- Nonlinear parameter estimation by global optimization: Comparison of local search methods in respiratory system modelling.- The "BENCHMARK" chronological simulation model: A new tool for better understanding the economic and physical behaviour of electrical generating systems.- An algorithm in constrained optimization.- An efficient algorithm for the optimal operation of a cascade reactor.- Evolutionary method in discrete programming.- Environmental systems modelling with respect to the future.- On the connections between mathematical programming and discrete optimal control.- Exploration of non renewable resources a dynamic approach.- Dynamic and stochastic optimization of transport networks.- Simulation of biomedical systems.- Stability of semilinear systems in Hilbert spaces.- A decomposition algorithm for the determination of optimal bus frequencies.- The effect of point-like noise sources on chemical distributed parameter systems.- Optimal energy management.- Effects of power-converters, compensation equipment and filter circuits on the voltage trajectories in electrical distribution systems.- Orelia a probabilistic model for the expansion planning of the Ehv electric power system.- Sensitivity analysis of an optimal control problem arising from air quality control in urban area.- On mathematical model of immunological tolerance.- Problem of optimal control for integral dynamic models with controllable prehistory.- One-machine scheduling problems with resource constraints.- Multiobjective structural optimization.- Linear approximation of surfaces with a criterion "minimum of average quadratic time" treating optimal control problems.- Vector Lyapunov functions method for difference-differential systems and its applications to immunology.- A new global optimization technique for solving partial differential equations.- Modelling and optimization of buffer stocks in a production line.- Simulating expert judgment: Actuarial models and applications.- Corporate planning and the value of information.- Duality in probabilistic constrained linear programming.- Nonlinear estimation problems of poisson cluster processes.- On the manifold of control processes in Lagrange problems.- On the numerical solution of certain time-minimal control problems of second order.- Nash game with regular polynomial perturbation.- A worst case analysis for the optimal gradient method.- Energy modelling approach at the swiss federal institute for reactor research.- Analysis of DNA distributions from flow cytometry by means of an optimization procedure.- Planning computation of a long-range planning on the basis of macroeconomic models.- Boundary stabilization problems for hyperbolic dynamics — A review.- Uncertain systems: Robustness of ultimate boundedness control with respect to neglected dynamics.- Discrete stability of stochastic programming problems with recourse.- Time optimal boundary controllability of a viscoelastic beam.- Stabilization by the feedbacks -B* and -B*P.- The stochastic models for estimation of functioning quality of communications and their application.- MDS: An instrument for the construction of models for company planning using the concepts of system dynamics.- Mathematical simulation model of power transformer for electrical power system protective schemes.- Time-optimal control of acceleration constrained mechanical systems.- A relational view of a linear optimization model and its consequence for the modelling process.- An adaptive coordination algorithm for the interaction balance method with feedback.- A stochastic multiobjective dynamic programming method with application to energy modelling.- Operation planning of power systems.- Modelling and numerical simulation of wind-generated circulation and matter transport in shallow lakes.- Results of evolutional random search procedure for load flow optimization in electric networks.- On the optimal cooling of the steel during continuous casting.- Good lattice points for quasirandom search methods.- A visual interactive simulation model for the design of a railway station.- Simultaneous synthesis and economic optimization of the power system on an oil/gas production platform.- Dc motor drive parameters optimization.- Optimizing simulated Markov processes.- Globally convergent exact penalty algorithms for constrained optimization.- Global optimization algorithms: Theory and some applications.- Periodic solutions of an infinite dimensional riccati equation.- Computer aided expansion planning of combined electric power and district heating systems — A mixed integer programming model.- Convex programming on Riemannian manifolds.- Interactive multicriteria goal programming by reference objectives.- Hybrid methods in nonlinear programming.- Bundle-based decomposition: Description and preliminary results.- On the optimization of a short-run model of energy production systems.- Power system corrective switching : A new approach using non-linear programming.- Optimal control of free boundary problems.- Optimal control methods for large power systems planning and operation.- Mathematical programming software.- Design, analysis and implementation of thermodynamically motivated simulation for optimization of subgraphs.- A quasi-subgradient scheme for calculating surrogate constraints.- Linear programming for electric power distribution system expansion planning: A dynamic expansion model for loop structured networks.- On existence of assignments in zero — One matrices.- Sensitivity analysis of elastic-plastic torsion problem.- Differential stability of solutions to boundary optimal control problems for parabolic systems.- An "analytical centre" for polyhedrons and new classes of global algorithms for linear (smooth, convex) programming.- Structural optimization with reliability constraints.- Iaea's activities in electric system expansion planning.- Monotone sequences of feasible solutions for quadratic programming problems with M-matrices and box constraints.- Clustering theory in the design of information systems.- On continuous time adaptive impulsive control.- Neuronal networks modelled by petri type nets with controllers.- The use of flying horizon method to traffic optimization in process control communication systems.- On the numerical solution of an optimal control problem.- Linear and nonlinear oligopoly models.- Solving scheduling problems by computer.- Multiple criteria analysis and evaluation in decision making of transport planning.- Reliability modelling of structural systems.- Comparison of different methods for solving a large scale, stochastic dynamic problem.- Semi-Markov analysis of the inhomogeneous machine interference model.- Lyapunov functions and turnpike theory.- Elasto-plastic analysis of continuum structures by nonlinear programming.- Modelling of metrological systems.- Optimal identification problems of regionalized variables systems.- The analysis of I/O configurations: On the robustness of the central server model.