System Modelling and Optimization: Proceedings of the 13th Ifip Conference Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987

From the preface: "These proceedings contain 73 contributed papers selected from among those presented at the 13th IFIP Conference System Modelling and Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987, as well as 4 papers for the plenary sessions of the Conference. The aim of the conference was to discuss recent advances in the mathematical representation of engineering, sociotechnical, socioeconomic systems as well as in the optimization of their performances."

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.