Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering

Convex Optimization.- Copositive Programming - a Survey.- A Robust H? Quasi-LPV Approach for Designing Nonlinear Observers.- Solving Infinite-dimensional Optimization Problems by Polynomial Approximation.- Abstract Cones of Positive Polynomials and Their Sums of Squares Relaxations.- Asynchronous Gossip Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization: Constant Stepsize Analysis*.- Nonlinear Optimization.- On Hessian- and Jacobian-Free SQP Methods - a Total Quasi-Newton Scheme with Compact Storage.- Approximate Geometric Ellipsoid Fitting: A CG-Approach.- Continuous Reformulation of MINLP Problems.- Local Convergence of Sequential Convex Programming for Nonconvex Optimization.- Fixed-Order H-infinity Optimization of Time-Delay Systems.- Using Model Order Reduction for the Parameter Optimization of Large Scale Dynamical Systems.- Optimization on Manifolds.- Optimization On Manifolds: Methods and Applications.- On the Best Low Multilinear Rank Approximation of Higher-order Tensors*.- Refining Sparse Principal Components.- Optimal Data Fitting on Lie Groups: a Coset Approach.- Riemannian BFGS Algorithm with Applications.- Identification Method for Time-Varying ARX Models.- Optimal Control.- On Some Riemannian Aspects of Two and Three-Body Controlled Problems*.- Optimization techniques for the computation of the effective Hamiltonian.- Hybrid Solution Methods for Bilevel Optimal Control Problems with Time Dependent Coupling.- Consistent Control Procedures in the Monotone Structural Evolution. Part 1: Theory.- Consistent Control Procedures in the Monotone Structural Evolution. Part 2: Examples and Computational Aspects.- Minimizing Tumor Volume for a Mathematical Model of Anti-Angiogenesis with Linear Pharmacokinetics.- On Infinite Horizon Optimal Control of aLotka-Voltera-System.- Model Predictive Control.- Performance of NMPC Schemes without Stabilizing Terminal Constraints.- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for an Artificial ?-cell.- An Optimized Linear Model Predictive Control Solver.- A Linear-Quadratic Model-Predictive Controller for Control and State Constrained Nonlinear Control Problems.- NMPC Suboptimality Estimates for Sampled-Data Continuous Systems.- Efficient Numerics for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control.- PDE-Constrained Optimization.- Optimal Control of Periodic Adsorption Processes: The Newton-Picard Inexact SQP Method.- On the Optimization of Steady Bingham Flow in Pipes.- Semismooth Newton Methods for an Optimal Boundary Control Problem of Wave Equations.- A Space Mapping Approach for the p-Laplace Equation.- Numerical Solutions for Optimal Control of Monodomain Equations in Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Barrier Methods for a Control Problem from Hyperthermia Treatment Planning.- On a State-Constrained PDE Optimal Control Problem arising from ODE-PDE Optimal Control.- Engineering Applications of Optimization.- Multi-Disciplinary Optimization of an Active Suspension System in the Vehicle Concept Design Stage.- Optimal Control of Machine Tool Manipulators.- Impact of the Material Distribution Formalism on the Efficiency of Evolutionary Methods for Topology Optimization.- A Variational Model for Image Texture Identification.- Optimization Study of a Parametric Vehicle Bumper Subsystem Under Multiple Load Cases.- Application of Learning Automata for Stochastic Online Scheduling.- Global Optimization with Expensive Functions - Sample Turbomachinery Design Application.- Adaptive Alternating Minimization for Fitting Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Signals.- Optimization of Partial DifferentialEquations for Minimizing the Roughness of Laser Cutting Surfaces.