Informatics and the Internal Necessity for the Mathematization of the Sciences / Nikolaos Apostolatos --; A New Semi-infinite Programming Method for Nonlinear Approximation / Miroslav D. Asic and Vera V. Kovacevic-Vujcic ̃--; Exhibition Organized by Klaus Ritter on the Occasion of the 125th Anniversary of the Technical University of Munich / Ludwig Barnerssoi --; Concavity of the Vector-Valued Functions Occurring in Fuzzy Multiobjective Decision-Making / Fred A. Behringer --; An Algorithm for the Solution of the Parametric Quadratic Programming Problem / Michael J. Best --; Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Equi-partition of Rectangular Domain via Stripe Decomposition / Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer --; Trust-Region Interior-Point Algorithms for Minimization Problems with Simple Bounds / John E. Dennis and Luis N. Vicente --; Adaptive Kernel Estimation of a Cusp-shaped Mode / Werner Ehm.
This collection of 25 research papers is dedicated to Professor Klaus Ritter of the Technical University of Munich on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions provide a broad spectrum of research in nonlinear optimization problems, including theoretical aspects, automatic differentiation, and practical applications. It is dealt with quadratic optimization and with multiobjective decision-making. Further topics are parallelizing of algorithms and their implementation on transputer workstations. Special attention is paid to applications of parallel algorithms in the field of robotics. New results in statistics are also presented.