Computing Methods in Optimization Problems : Papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Computing Methods in Optimization Problems, San Remo, Italy, September 9-13, 1968

Computation of the Switching Times in Optimal Control Problems of Bang-Bang Type -- Methodes d’optimisation dans la theorie du controle -- A Comparison of Some Recent Iterative Methods for the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Programs -- Problems in Optimal Control of Macroeconomic Systems -- Economic Optimization by Simulation: The Confidence Level Approach -- A Programme for Orbit Determination Associated with Launching and Station Keeping of 24 Hour Satellites -- Optimal Manpower Training -- Optimal Control of a Nuclear Reactor Power Plant -- Control with Bounded Inputs -- Critere de convergence par approxima- tion de l’optimum pour la methode du gradient -- Statistical Optimization of Circuit Design -- New Algorithms for Determining Optimal Control: A Differential Dynamic Programming Approach -- Successive Linearization and Nonlinear Filtering -- Modeling and Adjoints for Continuous Systems -- Variational Approach to the Gradient Method: Theory and Numerical Experiments -- Optimization of a Quasistochastic Class of Multiperiod Investments -- Optimisation of Electrical Network Responses -- Obtaining Fuel- Optimal Controls for Linear Time-Varying Plants by Newton’s Method -- Reactor Control Via State Variable Feedback.