Optimization Techniques. Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man 1: Proceedings, 7th IFIP Conference, Nice, Sept. 8-12, 1975 [Paperback]

Convexity properties in structural optimization.- Environment and some problems of optimization.- Multiregional population projection.- System theoretic control in immunology.- Optimisation des Processus de Fermentation en Continu.- Structural identifiability of biological compartmental systems. Digital computer implementation of a testing procedure.- Stability analysis of predator-prey models via Liapunov method.- Determination d'une Representation des Noyaux de Volterra pour un Systeme Physiologique Non-Lineaire.- A combinatorial method for health-care districting.- Study of waking-sleeping behaviour using automatic analysis and quantification.- Self-sustained oscillations in the Jacob-monod mode of gene regulation.- Optimisation in the modelling of digestive tract electrical signals.- Propagation model of bio-electric potentials through the shells of the brain.- Implementable policies for improving the biomass yield of a fishery.- A control and systems analysis of articial instream aeration.- Modeling dispersion in a submerged sewage field.- The identification and adaptive prediction of urban sewer flows.- The use of mixed integer programming for the evaluation of some alternate air pollution abatement policies.- On the use of quasilinearization for the solution of sub-problems in on-line hierarchical control and its application to a water distribution network.- A computer algorithm for solving a reservoir regulation problem under conflicting objectives.- Optimal pollution control of a lake.- Modelisation et Identification d'une Relation Pluie-Debit.- A mathematical model for analysis of mountain drainage basins.- Optimal sampling system for estimating geographical distributions of natural resource and environmental pollution.- Investigation into the use of the African board game, AYO, in the study of human problem-solving.- Catastrophe theory and urban processes.- Modelling and simulation of the mesoscale mosaic structure of the lower marine trophic levels.- OptlĢ