Table of contents : Identification of systems subject to random state disturbance....Pages 1-19 Adaptive compartimental structures in biology and society....Pages 20-32 On the optimal size of system model....Pages 33-36 Information-theoretic methods for modelling and analysing large systems....Pages 37-45 A new criterion for modeling systems....Pages 46-56 Stochastic extension and functional restrictions of ill-posed estimation problems....Pages 57-68 Regression operator in infinite dimensional vector spaces and its application to some identification problems....Pages 69-82 An approach to identification and optimization in quality control....Pages 83-91 Identification de Domaines....Pages 92-102 The modelling of edible oil fat mixtures....Pages 103-115 Free boundary problems and impulse control....Pages 116-123 A convex programming method in Hilbert space and its applications to optimal control of system described by parabolic equations....Pages 124-136 About some free boundary problems connected with hydraulics....Pages 137-140 Methode de Decomposition Appliquee au Controle Optimal de Systemes Distribues....Pages 141-151 Approximation of optimal control problems of systems described by boundary-value mixed problems of Dirichlet-Neumann type....Pages 152-162 Control of parabolic systems with boundary conditions involving time-delays....Pages 163-173 Characterization of cones of functions isomorphic to cones of convex functions....Pages 174-183 Necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for pareto optimality in a multicriterion perturbed system....Pages 184-193 A unified theory of deterministic two-players zero-sum differential games....Pages 194-201 About optimality of time of pursuit....Pages 202-205 Algebraic automata and optimal solutions in pattern recognition....Pages 206-217 A new feature selection procedure for pattern recognition based on supervised learning....Pages 218-229 A classification problem in medical radioscintigraphy....Pages 230-240 The dynamic clusters method and optimization in non hierarchical-clustering....Pages 241-258 A maximum principle for general constrained optimal control problems - an Epsilon Technique approach....Pages 259-264 Optimal control of systems governed by variational inequalities....Pages 265-275 On determining the submanifolds of state space where the optimal value surface has an infinite derivative....Pages 276-291 Control of affine systems with memory....Pages 292-303 Computational methods in Hilbert space for optimal control problems with delays....Pages 304-318 Sufficient conditions of optimality for contingent equations....Pages 319-328 Variational approximations of some optimal control problems....Pages 329-332 Norm perturbation of supremum problems....Pages 333-340 On two conjectures about the closed-loop time-optimal control....Pages 341-344 Coupling of state variables in the optimal low thrust orbital transfer problem....Pages 345-359 Optimization of the ammonia oxidation process used in the manufacture of nitric acid....Pages 360-369 Stochastic control with at most denumerable number of corrections....Pages 370-374 Design of optimal incomplete state feedback controllers for large linear constant systems....Pages 375-388 Control of a non linear stochastic boundary value problem....Pages 389-398 An algorithm to estimate sub-optimal present values for unichain markov processes with alternative reward structures....Pages 399-406 Some recent developments in nonlinear programming....Pages 407-417 Penalty methods and augmented Lagrangians in nonlinear programming....Pages 418-425 On inf-compact mathematical programs....Pages 426-436 Nonconvex quadratic programs, linear complementarity problems, and integer linear programs....Pages 437-449 A widely convergent minimization algorithm with quadratic termination property....Pages 450-459 A heuristic approach to combinatorial optimization problems....Pages 460-470 A new solution for the general set covering problem....Pages 471-483 A theoretical prediction of the input-output table....Pages 484-492 An improved algorithm for pseudo-boolean programming....Pages 493-504 Numerical algorithms for global extremum search....Pages 505-508 Gradient techniques for computation of stationary points....Pages 509-516 Parameterization and graphic aid in gradient methods....Pages 517-525 Les Algorithmes de Coordination dans la Methode Mixte d'Optimisation a Deux Niveaux....Pages 526-537 Applications of decomposition and multi-level techniques to the optimization of distributed parameter systems....Pages 538-553 Attempt to solve a combinatorial problem in the continuum by a method of extension-reduction....Pages 554-565