Plenary Papers -- Performance-Based Design as a Strategy for Risk Reduction: Application to Seismic Risk Assessment of Composite Steel-Concrete Frames -- Efficient Nonlinear Programming Algorithms for Chemical Process Control and Operations -- Application of Evolutionary Optimization in Structural Engineering -- Sufficient Conditions and Sensitivity Analysis for Optimal Bang-Bang Control Problems with State Constraints -- New Applications of Variational Analysis to Optimization and Control -- Problems of Mathematical Finance by Stochastic Control Methods -- Complete Shape Metric and Geodesic -- Regular Papers -- Galerkin Strategy for Level Set Shape Analysis: Application to Geodesic Tube -- Remarks on 0-1 Optimization Problems with Superincreasing and Superdecreasing Objective Functions -- A Hierarchical Multiobjective Routing Model for MPLS Networks with Two Service Classes -- Comparison of the Exact and Approximate Algorithms in the Random Shortest Path Problem -- Free Material Optimization for Plates and Shells -- Elliptic Control by Penalty Techniques with Control Reduction -- Applications of Topological Derivatives and Neural Networks for Inverse Problems -- Factorization by Invariant Embedding of a Boundary Value Problem for the Laplace Operator -- Nonlinear Cross Gramians -- Estimation of Regularization Parameters in Elliptic Optimal Control Problems by POD Model Reduction -- Identification of Material Models of Nanocoatings System Using the Metamodeling Approach -- Using Self-adjoint Extensions in Shape Optimization -- Fundamental Solutions and Optimal Control of Neutral Systems -- Approximate Subgradient Methods for Lagrangian Relaxations on Networks -- A Sample Time Optimization Problem in a Digital Control System -- Level Set Method for Shape and Topology Optimization of Contact Problems -- Second Order Sufficient Optimality Conditions for a Control Problem with Continuous and Bang-Bang Control Components: Riccati Approach -- Shape Sensitivity Analysis for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations -- Conservative Control Systems Described by the Schrödinger Equation -- Topological Derivatives in Plane Elasticity -- Model Order Reduction for Nonlinear IC Models -- Boundary Smoothness of the Solution of Maxwell’s Equations of Electromagnetics.

This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the 23rd IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Cracow, Poland, in July 2007. The 29 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions. They cover a wide range of topics including optimzation theory; algorithms of nonlinear optimization; discrete optimization; stochastic optimization; distributed parameter systems: modeling and control; optimal control; stochastic control and financial mathematics; structural design; stability and sensitivity analysis in optimal control; and complex systems.