edited by Mario Primicerio (Università di Firenze, Italy) , Renato Spigler (Unviersità di Roma 3, Italy) , & Vanda Valente (IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy)

Industrial mathematics is evolving into an important branch of mathematics. Mathematicians, in Italy in particular, are becoming increasingly aware of this new trend and are engaged in bridging the gap between highly specialized mathematical research and the emerging demand for innovation from industry. In this respect, the contributions in this volume provide both R&D workers in industry with a general view of existing skills, and academics with state-of-the-art applications of mathematics to real-world problems, which may also be incorporated in advanced courses.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

• New Perspectives on Mathematical Modeling of Semiconductors (G Alì et al.)
• Undesirable Growth, Oscillations and Indeterminacy in an Economy with Private Substitutes for Environmental Goods (A Antoci et al.)
• Aerodynamic Effects in Proximity to High-Speed Trains (R Balli et al.)
• Active Infrared Thermography in Nondestructive Evaluation (P Bison et al.)
• Admission Control Algorithms Based on Self-Similar Traffic Modeling for IP Networks (F Chiti et al.)
• Discontinuity Surfaces for a Class of Isotropic Elastic Materials (D De Tommasi et al.)
• Semi-explicit Time-Stepping Methods for Dynamical Systems with Complementary Constraints (L Lopez et al.)
• An Evolution Model for the Delamination of Thin Films: Theoretical and Numerical Aspects (F Pistella et al.)
• Entropy Function in Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Nonlinear Ferroelastic Crystals (L Restuccia & M Francaviglia)
• An Almost-Robust a Posteriori Estimator for the One-Dimensional Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problem (G Sangalli)
• An Application of Lattice Boltzmann Model to Open Systems (F Tosi)
• Dimension Reduction Problems for Non-Simple Grade Two Materials (E Zappale)
• and other papers