Analysis and Optimization of Systems

Controlabilite exacte des systems distribues : remarques sur la theorie generale et les applications.- A stochastic algorithm for finding points satisfying infinitely many inequality constraints.- Shape optimization in contact problems. 1. Design of an elastic body. 2. Design of an elastic perfectly plastic body.- Une methode de Quasi-Newton reduite en optimisation sous contraintes avec priorite a la restauration.- Majorization: A computational complexity reduction technique in control system design.- A superlinearly convergent method of feasible directions for optimization problems arising in the design of engineering systems.- Méthode des perturbations pour l'optimisation des systèmes statiques et dynamiques.- Numerical methods for minimax dynamic optimal control problem with discrete time.- A Successive Quadratic Programming based Feasible Directions Algorithm.- On the state estimation problem for distributed systems.- Calcul des valeurs propres pour des structures lineaires par la methode de Kuhn.- Instabilities in adaptive control systems.- A stable adaptive observer for a class of nonlinear second order systems.- Modelisation, Identification et Commande D'Un Bras Manipulateur Souple.- Lyapunov design of an adaptive external linearization feedback control for manipulators.- On the characteristic equation and minimal realizations for discrete-event dynamic systems.- Modular supervisory control of discrete event systems.- Théorême de Cayley-Hamilton dans les dio?des et application à l' étude des sytèmes à évènements discrets.- Dynamic behaviour of n-stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers.- Maximal selection in tandem networks with symmetric hearing range.- Une methode de decomposition pour les problemes d'ordonnancement en production.- Familles de produits et ilots de fabrication : Le cas de machines mutiiples.- Feedback linearization of discrete-time systems.- Le role des trajectoires singulieres pour la commande des systemes non lineaires.- Vers une nouvelle theorie du bouclage dynamique sur la sortie des systemes non lineaires.- Input-output decoupling of hamiltonian systems: The nonlinear case.- Robustness and stability for nonlinear systems decoupling and feedback linearization.- Some inequalities for non minimum phase systems.- State-feedback implementation of cascade compensators.- Local controllability along a reference trajectory.- Approximation entree-sortie d'un systeme non lineaire continu par un systeme discret.- Decouplage des systemes structures interconnectes. Approche transfert.- Homotopy theoretic control problems in nonlinear differential geometric control theory.- Stochastic complexity and statistical inference.- Factor analysis models for stationary stochastic processes.- A summary of recent results on the scalar rational interpolation problem.- Deterministic arma models.- Stochastic realization and factor analysis.- An approach to a Markovian realization of two-parameter processes.- Symbolic computation : A formula is worth 10000 numbers.- Nearly optimal state feedback controls for stochastic systems with wideband noise disturbances.- Asymptotic behaviour of jump linear systems in continuous time.- Filtrage de diffusions vectorielles faiblement bruitees.- A parameter estimate associated with the adaptive control of stochastic systems.- An optimal adaptive scheme for two competing queues with constraints.- A continuous-time distributed version of wald's sequential hypothesis testing problem.- Response feedback stabilization of linear hereditary systems.- Minimum sensitive hessenberg representations with connections to model reduction.- On recursiveness and related topics in linear systems: A summary.- Une structure différentielle pour les systèmes implicites.- An extended relational DBMS for control engineering.- Le projet BASTA.- Feedback systems design and H?-optimization.- Global asymptotic stability of digital filters with roundoff nonlinearities.- Robustesse et commande decentralisee de systemes multivariables non lineaires.- On vanishing stability regions in nonlinear systems with high-gain feedback.- On a singular perturbation in the kinetic theory of enzymes and the corresponding nonlinear time optimal control.- Failure detection by decentralized observers for complex multi-time scale systems.- Trajectoires lentes des systems dynamiques lents-rapides.- Disturbances rejection and integral control of aggregated nonlinear distillation models.- Identification et commande optimale, en temps discret et par modeles a etat-affine, d'un procede chimique de neutralisation.- Une methode variationnelle d'assimilation des observations meteorologiques.- Quadratic control law for a thermal storage system.- New results in the game of two identical cars.- On the optimal tuning of a robust controller.- Sur la commande optimale presque singuliere.- Cooperative and non-cooperative solutions for a linear-quadratic differential game model of stabilization policies.- Decouplage et immersion d' un modele neuroendocrinien.- A qualitative simulator for biochemical models based on bond graphs.- Analyse du rythme cardiaque foetal par des methodes de detection de ruptures.- Nonlinear system immersion, observers, finite dimensional filters and applications.- Implementation of an infinite dimensional filter via computational geometry.- Optimization of the window shape in weighted least squares identification of a class of nonstationary systems.