Recent Advances in Optimization

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a Vanishing Mutual Repulsion -- Inverse Linear Programming -- Second-Order Conditions in C1,1 Vector Optimization with Inequality and Equality Constraints -- Benson Proper Efficiency in Set-Valued Optimization on Real Linear Spaces -- Some Results About Proximal-Like Methods -- Application of the Proximal Point Method to a System of Extended Primal-Dual Equilibrium Problems -- On Stability of Multistage Stochastic Decision Problems -- Nonholonomic Optimization -- A Note on Error Estimates for some Interior Penalty Methods -- Optimal Control and Calculus of Variations -- L1—Optimal Boundary Control of a String to Rest in Finite Time -- An Application of PL Continuation Methods to Singular Arcs Problems -- On an Elliptic Optimal Control Problem with Pointwise Mixed Control-State Constraints -- On Abstract Control Problems with Non-Smooth Data -- Sufficiency Conditions for Infinite Horizon Optimal Control Problems -- On Nonconvex Relaxation Properties of Multidimensional Control Problems -- Existence and Structure of Solutions of Autonomous Discrete Time Optimal Control Problems -- Numerical Methods for Optimal Control with Binary Control Functions Applied to a Lotka-Volterra Type Fishing Problem -- Game Theory -- Some Characterizations of Convex Games -- The Bird Core for Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Problems Revisited: Monotonicity and Additivity Aspects -- A Parametric Family of Mixed Coalitional Values -- Industrial Applications and Numerical Testing -- Complementarity Problems in Restructured Natural Gas Markets -- Reconciling Franchisor and Franchisee: A Planar Biobjective Competitive Location and Design Model -- Tools for Robotic Trajectory Planning Using Cubic Splines and Semi-Infinite Programming -- Solving Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints with Nonlinear Solvers -- A Filter Algorithm and Other NLP Solvers: Performance Comparative Analysis -- How Wastewater Processes can be Optimized Using LOQO.