Optimal Control of Differential Equations

To Constantin Corduneanu on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Optimal Relaxed Controls for Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Differential Inclusions /N. U. Ahmed -- 2. Optimal Control Problems Governed by Volterra Integral Inclusions /Sergiu Aizicovici and Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou -- 3. Identifying the Nonlinearity in a Parabolic Boundary Value Problem /Viorel Barbu and Karl Kunisch -- 4. Optimal Control and Calculus of Variations in Loo /E. N. Barron -- 5. Optimal Control of Some Partial Differential Equations with Two Point Boundary Conditions /Zhixiong Cai, Nicolae H. Pavel, and Shih-liang Wen -- 6. Continuity of a Parametrized Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problem /Constantin Corduneanu and S. Q. Zhu -- 7. Some Remarks on Ergodic and Periodic Control /Giuseppe Da Prato -- 8. Optimal Boundary Control of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations /H. 0. Fattorini and T. Murphy -- 9. Numerical Approximations of Solutions to Riccati Equations Arising in Boundary Control Problems for the Wave Equation /Erik Hendrikson and Irena Lasiecka -- 10. Wellposedness and Uniform Decay Rates of Weak Solutions to a von Karman System with Nonlinear Dissipative Boundary Conditions /Mary Ann Hom, Irena Lasiecka and Daniel Tataru -- 11. Optimal Control Hyperbolic Systems with Bounded Variation of Controls /Dariusz ldczak and Stanislaw Walczak -- 12. Further Regularity Properties in Quadratic Cost Problems for Parabolic Equations with Boundary Control and Non-Smoothing Final State Penalization /Irena Lasieka and Roberto Triggiani -- 13. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimality for Nonlinear Control Problems in Banach Spaces /Urszula Ledzewicz and Andrzej Nowakowski -- 14. Pareto Optimality Conditions for Abnormal Optimization and Optimal Control Problems /Urszula Ledzewicz and Heinz Schaettler -- 15. A Theory of First and Second Order Conditions for Nonregular Extremum Problems /Urszula Ledzewicz and Heinz Schaettler -- 16. Existence, Approximation, and Suboptimality Conditions for Minimax Control of Heat Transfer Systems with State Constraints /Boris S. Mordukhovich and Kaixia Zhang -- 17. Optimal Control Problems for Some First and Second Order Differential Equations /Nicolae H. Pavel, G. S. Wang, and Yong Kang Huang -- 18. A Variational Approach to Shape Optimization for the Navier-Stokes Equations /Srdjan Stojanovic and Thomas P. Svobodny -- 19. A Strong Version of the Lojasiewicz Maximum Principle /H. J. Sussmann -- 20. On the Relationship Between the Optimal Quadratic Cost Problems on an Infinite Horizon, and on a Finite Horizon with Final Time Penalization: The Abstract Hyperbolic Case /Roberto Triggiani -- 21. A Sharp Result on the Exponential Operator-Norm Decay of a Family Th(t) of Strongly Continuous Semigroups Uniformly in h /Roberto Triggiani.