Optimization Techniques Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man Part 1: Proceedings, 7th IFIP Conference Nice, September 8–12, 1975

Convexity properties in structural optimization....Pages 1-12
Environment and some problems of optimization....Pages 13-30
Multiregional population projection....Pages 31-58
System theoretic control in immunology....Pages 59-70
Optimisation des Processus de Fermentation en Continu....Pages 71-87
Structural identifiability of biological compartmental systems. Digital computer implementation of a testing procedure....Pages 88-102
Stability analysis of predator-prey models via Liapunov method....Pages 103-109
Determination d'une Representation des Noyaux de Volterra pour un Systeme Physiologique Non-Lineaire....Pages 110-115
A combinatorial method for health-care districting....Pages 116-130
Study of waking-sleeping behaviour using automatic analysis and quantification....Pages 131-144
Self-sustained oscillations in the Jacob-monod mode of gene regulation....Pages 145-154
Optimisation in the modelling of digestive tract electrical signals....Pages 155-169
Propagation model of bio-electric potentials through the shells of the brain....Pages 170-181
Implementable policies for improving the biomass yield of a fishery....Pages 182-206
A control and systems analysis of articial instream aeration....Pages 207-228
Modeling dispersion in a submerged sewage field....Pages 229-245
The identification and adaptive prediction of urban sewer flows....Pages 246-263
The use of mixed integer programming for the evaluation of some alternate air pollution abatement policies....Pages 264-272
On the use of quasilinearization for the solution of sub-problems in on-line hierarchical control and its application to a water distribution network....Pages 273-291
A computer algorithm for solving a reservoir regulation problem under conflicting objectives....Pages 292-314
Optimal pollution control of a lake....Pages 315-330
Modelisation et Identification d'une Relation Pluie-Debit....Pages 331-349
A mathematical model for analysis of mountain drainage basins....Pages 350-362
Optimal sampling system for estimating geographical distributions of natural resource and environmental pollution....Pages 363-367
Investigation into the use of the African board game, AYO, in the study of human problem-solving....Pages 368-387
Catastrophe theory and urban processes....Pages 388-406
Modelling and simulation of the mesoscale mosaic structure of the lower marine trophic levels....Pages 407-418
Optimisation et Planification des Reseaux de Telecommunications....Pages 419-430
World models a case study on social responsability and impact....Pages 431-439
A mathematical model for pressure swing adsorption....Pages 440-454
A four-variable world system....Pages 455-469
The application of gradient algorithms to the optimization of controlled versions of the world 2 model of forrester....Pages 470-495
A new approach to modelling in planning of electric power systems....Pages 496-505
On the optimization of peat burning plants....Pages 506-517
A multi-area approach to the economic optimization of electric power system....Pages 518-536
Le Probleme de la Multivalence dans le Travail Continu....Pages 537-556
Search and montecarlo techniques for determining reservoir operating policies....Pages 557-569
A model of many goal-oriented stochastic automata with application on a marketing problem....Pages 570-588
The forecast and planning of manpower with implications to higher educational institutions-mathematical models....Pages 589-607
Etablissement Automatique des Tableaux de Marche et Feuilles de Service dans un Reseau de Transport....Pages 608-621
Construction Automatique des Horaires d'Une Ligne d'Autobus....Pages 622-636
Regional school districting via mathematical programming....Pages 637-645
On the optimal control of natural resource use in the neoclassical economic framework....Pages 646-656
Computer elaboration of time-table for single railway line....Pages 657-675
An interactive implementation of control theory techniques applied to Pindyck's model of the U.S. Economy....Pages 676-690
Control in economy based on non-price information....Pages 691-704
Modelling and optimization techniques in accordance with the information requirements for socio-economic development....Pages 705-720
Population planning; a distributed time optimal control problem....Pages 721-735
On the optimality of a switch-over policy for controlling the queue size in an M/G/1 queue with variable service rate....Pages 736-742
Optimization of resource allocation in R+D projects....Pages 743-747
Optimal ocean navigation....Pages 748-756
Design and application of an interactive simulation language....Pages 757-768
A functional package for monitoring branching methods in combinatorial optimization....Pages 769-773
Scorpion : Systeme de Modelisation et d'Optimisation....Pages 774-793
An interactive system for modeling....Pages 794-807
A network combining packet switching and time division circuit switching in a common system....Pages 808-833
Optimum allocation of investments in a two — Region economy....Pages 834-848