Distributed Parameter Systems

On a variational approach to some parameter estimation problems.- Fixed point methods in nonlinear control.- An initial value control problem for burgers' equation.- Optimal periodic control of retarded Lienard equations.- On the identification of a spatially varying coefficient appearing in a parabolic partial differential equation.- Disturbance decoupling for distributed systems by boundary control.- Riccati equation with unbounded coefficients.- Some problems in shape optimal design for communications satellites.- Identification and control for distributed parameters in porous media flow.- The maximum principle for nonlinear nonconvex systems in infinite dimensional spaces.- On the optimal control of non well posed systems with boundary control.- Legendre-tau approximation for functional differential equations part III: Eigenvalue approximations and uniform stability.- On solving time-minimal control problems.- Approximations of Riccati equations corresponding to hyperbolic boundary control problems.- Parameter identification problems for interconnected distributed parameter systems and applications to a biotechnological plant.- Tandem connection of systems with delays.- Modelling and parameter estimation for distributed vibratory systems.- Algorithmic approaches to sets of "good answers" in inverse problems.- An abstract framework for infinite dimensional systems with unbounded control and observation.- Coefficient identification for a parabolic problem.- On strong solution, uniqueness, stability and comparison theorems for a stochastic system with poisson jumps.- Differential stability of control constrained optimal control problems for distributed parameter systems.- Improvement of stability properties of hyperbolic damped wave equation via boundary feedback.- Maximum principle of distributed parameter systems with time lags.- Optimality conditions and duality for continuous time programming without differentiability.- Shape stabilization of flexible structure.