Recent Advances in Optimization: Proceedings of the 8th French-German Conference on Optimization Trier, July 21-26, 1996 in Bloomington, MN

This book presents recent theoretical and practical aspects in the field of optimization and convex analysis. The topics covered in this volume include: - Equilibrium models in economics. - Control theory and semi-infinite programming. - Ill-posed variational problems. - Global optimization. - Variational methods in image restoration. - Nonsmooth optimization. - Duality theory in convex and nonconvex optimization. - Methods for large scale problems.