System Modeling and Optimization Proceedings of the 21st IFIP TC7 Conference held in July 21st - 25th, 2003, Sophia Antipolis, France

System Modeling and Optimization is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the recent advances in these two disciplines. The book collects, for the first time, selected articles from the 21st and most recent IFIP TC 7 conference in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Applied mathematicians and computer scientists can attest to the ever-growing influence of these two subjects. The practical applications of system modeling and optimization can be seen in a number of fields: environmental science, transport and telecommunications, image analysis, free boundary problems, bioscience, and non-cylindrical evolution control, to name just a few.

New developments in each of these fields have contributed to a more complex understanding of both system modeling and optimization. Editors John Cagnol and Jean-Paul Zolésio, chairs of the conference, have assembled System Modeling and Optimization to present the most up-to-date developments to professionals and academics alike.

Toward a Mathematical Theory of Aeroelasticity.- Uniform Cusp Property, Boundary Integral, and Compactness for Shape Optimization.- Interior and Boundary Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Equations.- Matrix Rounding and Related Problems with Application to Digital Halftoning.- Nonlinear Programming: Algorithms, Software, and Applications.- Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Complex Infrastructure Systems.- Feedback Robust Control for a Parabolic Variational Inequality.- Tracking Control of Parabolic Systems.- Modeling of Topology Variations in Elasticity.- Factorization by Invariant Embedding of Elliptic Problems in a Circular Domain.- On Identifiability of Linear Infinite-Dimensional Systems.- An Inverse Problem for the Telegraph Equation.- Solvability and Numerical Solution of Variational Data Assimilation Problems.- Existence of Solutions to Evolution Second Order Hemivariational Inequalities with Multivalued Damping.- Probabilistic Investigation on Dynamic Response of Deck Slabs of Highway Bridges.- Optimal Maintenance Planning for Bridge Structures Considering Earthquake Effects.- Uniform Decay Rates of Solutions to a Nonlinear Wave Equation with Boundary Condition of Memory Type.- Bayesian Deconvolution of Functions in RKHS Using MCMC Techniques.- Modeling Stochastic Hybrid Systems.- Mathematical Models and State Observation of the Glucose-Insulin Homeostasis.- Convergence Estimates of POD-Galerkin Methods for Parabolic Problems.