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

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.

Michael P Pollis

Distributed Parameter Systems, Control of Turbulent Flows, Shape Control of Elastic Plates, L1-Closed Decomposable Sets in L*, Reliability, 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/ part contents