edited by R P Agarwal (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

World Scientific Series in Applicable Analysis (WSSIAA) aims at reporting new developments of high mathematical standard and current interest. Each volume in the series shall be devoted to the mathematical analysis that has been applied or potentially applicable to the solutions of scientific, engineering, and social problems. This volume contains 30 research articles on the theory of optimization and its applications by the leading scientists in the field. It is hoped that the material in the present volume will open new vistas in research.

Contributors: B D O Anderson, M Bertaja, O J Boxma, O Burdakov, A Cantoni, D J Clements, B D Craven, J B Cruz, Jr., P Diamond, S V Drakunov, Y G Evtushenko, N M Filatov, I Galligani, J C Geromel, F Giannessi, M J Grimble, G O Guardabassi, D-W Gu, C H Houpis, D G Hull, C Itiki, X Jian, M A Johnson, R E Kalaba, J C Kalkkuhl, M R Katebi, T J Kim, P Kloeden, T Kobylarz, A J Laub, C S Lee, G Leitmann, B-G Liu, J Liu, Z-Q Luo, K A Lurie, P Maponi, J B Matson, A Mess, G Pacelli, M Pachter, I Postlethwaite, T Rapcsak, M C Recchioni, Y Sakawa, S V Savastyuk, K Schittkowski, Y Shi, M A Sikora, D D Siljak, K L Teo, C Tovey, P Tseng, F E Udwadia, H Unbehauen, A Vladimirov, B Vo, J F Whidborne, R Xu, P L Yu, V G Zhadan, F Zirilli.

• Dual Cones in Spaces of Convex Sets and Fuzzy Sets (P Diamond et al.)
• Dual Barrier-Projection Methods in Linear Programming (Y G Evtushenko & V G Zhadan)
• Solving Parameter Identification Problems on a Parallel-Vector Computer (I Galligani & M Bertaja)
• Appell's Equations of Motion and the Generalized Inverse Form (C Itiki et al.)
• Dynamic Nonlinear Optimisation Using the Gate Function Approach (M R Katebi et al.)
• Control Strategies for an Endemic Disease in the Presence of Uncertainty (C S Lee & G Leitmann)
• On Global Convergence of an Algorithm for Optimal Control of Discrete-Time Systems (Y Sakawa)
• Parameter Estimation in Differential Equations (K Schittkowski)
• A Sliding Mode Based Leader-Follower Strategy for Multi-Level Hierarchies (M A Sikora et al.)
• Synthesis of Adaptive Controllers Using Bicriterial Optimization and Lyapunov Functions (H Unbehauen & N M Filatov)
• and other papers