5th Conference on Optimization Techniques Part II [electronic resource] / edited by R. Conti, A. Ruberti.

Some aspects of urban systems of relevance to optimisation techniques -- Selection of optimal industrial clusters for regional development -- Optimal investment policies in transportation networks -- An on-line optimization procedure for an urban traffic system -- Hierarchical strategies for the on-line control of urban road traffic signals -- Application of optimization approach to the problem of land use plan design -- Combinatorial optimization and preference pattern aggregation -- A microsimulation model of the health care system in the United States: The role of the physician services sector -- A model for finite stroage message switching networks -- On constrained diameter and medium optimal spanning trees -- Simulation techniques for the study of modulated communication channels -- Gestion Optimale d'un Ordinateur Multiprogramme a Memoire Virtuelle -- State-space approach in problem-solving optimization -- Perturbation theory and the statement of inverse problems -- A model for the evaluation of alternative policies for atmospheric pollutant source emissions (Masc model) -- Mathematical modelling of a nordic hydrological system, and the use of a simplified run-off model in the stochastic optimal control of a hydroelectrical power system -- A two-dimensional model for the Lagoon of Venice -- Sea level prediction models for Venice -- Optimal estuary aeration: An application of distributed parameter control theory -- Interactive simulation program for water flood routing systems -- An automatic river planning operating system (ARPOS) -- On the optimal control on an infinite planning horizon of consumption, pollution, population and natural resource use -- Limited role of entropy in information economics -- On a dual control approach to the pricing policies of a trading specialist -- Problems of optimal economic investments with finite lifetime capital -- Some economic models of markets -- Utilization of heuristics in manufacturing planning and optimization -- Economic simulation of a small chemical plant -- An optimal growth model for the Hungarian national economy -- On optimization of health care systems -- Theoretical and operational problems in driving a physical model of the circulatory system -- Modeling, simulation, identification and optimal control of large biochemical systems -- Modelisation du Transfert Gazeux Pulmonaire et Calcul Automatique de la Capacite de Diffusion -- On some models of the muscle spindle.