Optimization and Control with Applications

Duality and Optimality Conditions.- On Minimization of Max-Min Functions.- A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Order Subdifferentiability Concepts with Application to Optimality Conditions.- Duality and Exact Penalization via a Generalized Augmented Lagrangian Function.- Duality for Semi-Definite and Semi-Infinite Programming with Equality Constraints.- The Use of Nonsmooth Analysis and of Duality Methods for the Study of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.- Some Classes of Abstract Convex Functions.- Optimization Algorithms.- An Implementation of Training Dual-nu Support Vector Machines.- An Analysis of the Barzilai and Borwein Gradient Method for Unsymmetric Linear Equations.- An Exchange Algorithm for Minimizing Sum-Min Functions.- On the Barzilai-Borwein Method.- The Modified Subgraident Method for Equality Constrained Nonconvex Optimization Problems.- Inexact Restoration Methods for Nonlinear Programming: Advances and Perspectives.- Quantum Algorithm for Continuous Global Optimization.- SQP versus SCP Methods for Nonlinear Programming.- An Approximation Approach for Linear Programming in Measure Space.- Optimal Control.- Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems.- Proximal-Like Methods for Convex Minimization Problems.- Analysis of Two Dimensional Nonconvex Variational Problems.- Stability of Equilibrium Points of Projected Dynamical Systems.- On a Quasi-Consistent Approximations Approach to Optimization Problems with Two Numerical Precision Parameters.- Numerical Solutions of Optimal Switching Control Problems.- A Solution to Hamilton-Jacobi Equation by Neural Networks and Optimal State Feedback Control.- H? Control Based on State Observer for Descriptor Systems.- Variational Inequality and Equilibrium Problems.- Decomposable Generalized Vector Variational Inequalities.-On a Geometric Lemma and Set-Valued Vector Equilibrium Problem.- Equilibrium Problems.- Gap Functions and Descent Methods for Minty Variational Inequality.- A New Class of Proximal Algorithms for the