System Modelling and Optimization : Proceedings of the 11th IFIP Conference Copenhagen, Denmark, July 25-29, 1983

Modelling and optimization in system planning in China.- Uncertainty algebra. A linear algebraic submodel of probability theory.- Energy models and energy policy problems.- The essentials of hierarchical control.- New developments in econometric commodity market modeling: A model of the world copper market.- The great recession: A crisis in parameters?.- Analysis and modelling of the development economy in the least developed countries.- Macroeconomic equilibrium with rationing and variable working time.- Continuous-time asset-pricing models: Selected results.- The national investment model "N.I.M.".- A nonlinear econometric model with bounded controls and an entropy objective.- A model of coal transport management in a rail network.- Decomposition of optimal control in energy minimisation in railway traffic.- Optimal urban bus routing with scheduling flexibilities.- Development of demand-responsive strategies for urban traffic control.- An algorithm for Multiple Choice Knapsack Problem.- Aggregation of equalities in integer programming.- On job-shop sheduling with resources constraints.- Space covering technique for multicriterion optimization.- Lexicographical order, inequality systems and optimization.- Stability of generalized equations and Kuhn-Tucker points of perturbed convex programs.- Duality and stability theorems for convex multifunctional programs.- Parametrizing the value functions in dynamic programming.- A smooth sequential penalty function method for solving nonlinear programming problems.- A class of continuously differentiable exact penalty function algorithms for nonlinear programming problems.- On the effectiveness of the Bayesian nonparametric approach to global optimization.- Convergent cutting planes for linear programs with additional reverse convex constraints.- A fast Voronoi-diagram algorithm with applications to geographical optimization problems.- Nonlinear optimization by a curvilinear path strategy.- A unified nonlinear programming theory for penalty, multiplier, SQP and GRG methods.- A linearization algorithm for constrained nonsmooth minimization.- Better than linear convergence and safeguarding in nonsmooth minimization.- On three approaches to the construction of nondifferentiable optimization algorithms.- An algorithm for minimizing nondifferentiable convex functions under linear constraints.- On singular and bang-bang processes in optimal control.- Shape controlability for free boundaries.- Approximation of boundary control problems for evolution variational inequalities arising from free boundary problems.- Optimal control of generalized flow networks.- H lder condition for the minimum time function of linear systems.- The quadratic cost problem for L2[0,T; L2(?)] boundary input hyperbolic equations.- Modelling and control of water quality in a river section.- A Galerkin approximation for the Zakai equation.- Some singular control problem with long term average criterion.- On Ergodic control problems associated with optimal maintenance and inspection.- Convergence of a stochastic variable metric method with application in adaptive prediction.- Modelization and filtering of discrete systems and discrete approximation of continuous systems.- Extremals in stochastic control theory.- Design wave determination by fast integration technique.- A method to evaluate the consequences of member failure in jacket-type offshore platform structures.- On selecting a target reliability for deep water tension leg platforms.- Frequency versus time domain identification of complex structures modal shapes under natural excitation.- Fatigue of offshore platforms: A method of analysis.- Stochastic design of rubble mound breakwaters.- Probabilistically optimum design of frame structure.- Reliability analysis of elasto-plastic structures.- Threshold crossings in nonlinear systems and ship capsize prevention.- Asymptotic approximations for multinormal domain and surface integrals.- Model uncertainty