System Modeling and Optimization XX : Ifip Tc7 20th Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, July 23-27, 2001, Trier, Germany

System Modeling and Optimization XX deals with new developments in the areas of optimization, optimal control and system modeling. The themes range across various areas of optimization: continuous and discrete, numerical and analytical, finite and infinite dimensional, deterministic and stochastic, static and dynamic, theory and applications, foundations and case studies. Besides some classical topics, modern areas are also presented in the contributions, including robust optimization, filter methods, optimization of power networks, data mining and risk control.
This volume contains invited and selected papers from presentations at the 20th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, which took place at the University of Trier, Germany from July 23 to 27, 2001, and which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Ekkehard W. Sachs is a Professor in the Departments of Mathematics at the University of Trier, Germany, and Virginia Tech, USA. He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Applied Mathematics (ICAM) at Virginia Tech. Rainer Tichatschke is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Trier, Germany.