Information processing, recent mathematical advances in optimization and control : articles from the IFIP Conference, July 21st-25th 2003, Ecole des mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Information processing, particularly in the sciences
and engineering fields, is largely influenced by
modeling and simulation. The selected articles
presented in this book - issued from Ifip conferences
and written by international scholars and experts
- discuss a wide variety of applications and
bring the most recent advances in applied mathematics
and computational science.
In turn, new, efficient, publicly available or commercial tools
are proposed or presented. They can be used in a number
of fields: environmental science, transport and telecommunications,
production planning, finance, auto-piloting systems,
and non-cylindrical evolution control, to name just a
few.
Ifip (International Federation for Information Processing) is
an organization established in 1960 under the auspices of
Unesco, working in the field of information processing. Technical
work, which is the heart of IFIP's activity, is managed
by a series of Technical Committees (TC). The 7<sup>th</sup> TC is concerned
with system modeling and optimization, and it has
met every other year since 1968.
