Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

The volume here presented contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, held in Graz (Austria) from July 15–21, 2001. It was the one eighth in a series of conferences that began in 1982. The book includes are a broad variety of topics related to partial differential equations, ranging from abstract functional analytic framework to aspects of modelling, with the main emphasis, however, on theory and numerics of optimal control for nonlinear distributed parameter systems. The proceedings contain 16 articles written by 27 authors, each of the papers containing new research results, not published before. They give a very useful overview to many of the current theoretical and industrial problems. The upto-date references at the end of the articles are also very helpful, and the nice, uniform TeX style of the book will be appreciated by the readers. In what follows, I describe briefly the papers contained in this collection. 1