System Modelling and Optimization

Michael J.D. Powell is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Applied Numerical Analysis in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Stefan Scholtes holds a joint Lectureship in the Judge Institute of Management Studies and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Topology Design of Structures, Materials and Mechanisms — Status and Perspectives.- MIP: Theory and Practice — Closing the Gap Robert.- On the Role of Natural Level Functions to Achieve Global Convergence for Damped Newton Methods.- Computational Experience with a Parallel Implementation of an Interior-Point Algorithm for Multicommodity Network Flows.- Modelling the Behavior of Systems: Basic Concepts and Algorithms.- Lipschitzian Stability of Newton’s Method for Variational Inclusions.- SQP Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming.- Algorithmic Implications of Duality in Stochastic Programs.- A Model which Integrates Strategic and Tactical Aspects of Forest Harvesting.- Optimization of Chemical Processes Under Uncertainty.- Numerical Solution to the Acoustic Homicidal Chauffeur Game.- Application of a Micro-Genetic Algorithm in Optimal Design of a Diffractive Optical Element.- Semidefinite and Lagrangian Relaxations for Hard Combinatorial Problems.- Recent Developments in Interior-Point Methods.- Other Papers that were Presented at the Conference.