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Brockway McMillan Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 J. P. LaSalle Stability and Control . . . . . . . . . 3--15 Lucien W. Neustadt Minimum Effort Control Systems . . . . . 16--31 Richard Bellman Vector Lyapunov Functions . . . . . . . 32--34 Emanuel Parzen Extraction and detection problems and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces . . . 35--62 G. P. Szeg\Ho On a new partial differential equation for the stability analysis of time invariant control systems . . . . . . . 63--75 A. F. Filippov On certain questions in the theory of optimal control . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
H. Hermes and G. Haynes On The Nonlinear Control Problem with Control Appearing Linearly . . . . . . . 85--108 A. V. Balakrishnan An operator theoretic formulation of a class of control problems and a steepest descent method of solution . . . . . . . 109--127 Elmer G. Gilbert Controllability and observability in multivariable control systems . . . . . 128--151 R. E. Kalman Mathematical Description of Linear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 152--192 John V. Breakwell and Jason L. Speyer and Arthur E. Bryson Optimization and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using the Second Variation . . . 193--223 F. M. Kirillova On the correctness of the formulation of an optimal control problem . . . . . . . 224--239
E. B. Lee A Sufficient Condition in the Theory of Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245 R. A. Gambill Generalized curves and the existence of optimal controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--260 T. F. Bridgland, Jr. On the Existence of Optimal Feedback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274 M. N. O\uguztörelí Relay Type Control Systems with Retardation and Switching Delay . . . . 275--289 M. N. O\uguztörelí A Time Optimal Control Problem for Systems Described by Differential Difference Equations . . . . . . . . . . 290--310 O. L. Mangasarian Stability Criteria for Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations . . . . 311--318 Yu-Chi Ho and Piero B. Brentani On Computing Optimal Control with Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . 319--348 Boris Garfinkel A Solution of the Goddard Problem . . . 349--368 G. P. Szeg\Ho and G. R. Geiss A Remark on ``A New Partial Differential Equation for the Stability Analysis of Time Invariant Control Systems'' . . . . 369--376
C. W. Merriam III An Algorithm for the Iterative Solution of a Class of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 Richard Bellman and Richard Bucy Asymptotic Control Theory . . . . . . . 11--18 Gerald L. Smith Multivariable Linear Filter Theory Applied to Space Vehicle Guidance . . . 19--32 Lucien W. Neustadt Optimization, a Moment Problem, and Nonlinear Programming . . . . . . . . . 33--53 H. O. Fattorini Time-Optimal Control of Solutions of Operational Differential Equations . . . 54--59 C. A. Harvey Modes of Finite Response Time Control 60--65 G. M. Ewing and W. R. Haseltine Optimal Programs for an Ascending Missile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--88 M. Namík Oguztöreli Optimal Pursuit Strategy Processes with Retarded Control Systems . . . . . . . . 89--105 Harold J. Kushner On the Differential Equations Satisfied by Conditional Probability Densities of Markov Processes, with Applications . . 106--119 Stuart E. Dreyfus Some Types of Optimal Control of Stochastic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 120--134 Boris Garfinkel Errata: A Solution of the Goddard Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
T. F. Bridgland, Jr. On the Existence of Optimal Feedback Controls. II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150 L. M. Sonneborn and F. S. Van Vleck The Bang--Bang Principle for Linear Control Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159 Allan M. Krall Stability Criteria for Feedback Systems with a Time Lag . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--170 H. H. Rosenbrock Some Conditions for the Stability of Nonlinear Time-Dependent Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180 Nam P. Bhatia On Exponential Stability of Linear Differential Systems . . . . . . . . . . 181--191 I. W. Sandberg On the Solutions of Systems of Second Order Differential Equations with Variable Coefficients . . . . . . . . . 192--198 Hubert Halkin A Generalization of LaSalle's ``Bang--Bang'' Principle . . . . . . . . 199--202 Donald R. Snow Singular optimal controls for a class of minimum effort problems . . . . . . . . 203--219 Albert Chang An Optimal Regulator Problem . . . . . . 220--233 Henry J. Kelley A Transformation Approach to Singular Subarcs in Optimal Trajectory and Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--240 H. Hermes Controllability and the Singular Problem 241--260 T. G. Babunashvili The Synthesis of Linear Optimal Systems 261--265
W. J. Culver An Analytic Theory of Modeling for a Class of Minimal-Energy Control Systems (Disturbance-Free Case) . . . . . . . . 267--294 J. V. Breakwell and F. Tung Minimum Effort Control Of Several Terminal Components . . . . . . . . . . 295--316 Kiyohisa Okamura Some Mathematical Theory of the Penalty Method for Solving Optimum Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--331 B. W. Jordan and E. Polak Optimal Control of Aperiodic Discrete-Time Systems . . . . . . . . . 332--346 W. M. Wonham Some Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations to Optimal Nonlinear Filtering . . . . . . . . . . 347--369 Allan M. Krall The Asymptotes of the Time Lag Root-Locus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372 W. W. Schmaedeke and D. L. Russell Time Optimal Control with Amplitude and Rate Limited Controls . . . . . . . . . 373--395 James C. I. Dooge Analysis of Linear Systems by Means of Laguerre Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 396--408 D. L. Russell Penalty Functions and Bounded Phase Coordinate Control . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422 Joseph G. Gurley Optimal-Thrust Trajectories in an Arbitrary Gravitational Field . . . . . 423--432 D. D. Sworder Minimax Control of Discrete Time Stochastic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 433--449
Solomon Lefschetz Liapunov Stability and Controls . . . . 1--6 Lamberto Cesari An Existence Theorem in Problems of Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--22 Magnus R. Hestenes On Variational Theory and Optimal Control Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--48 L. S. Pontryagin On Some Differential Games . . . . . . . 49--52 G. Leitmann Some Geometrical Aspects of Optimal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65 E. F. Mishchenko On a Certain Problem for Parabolic Differential Equations Connected with Optimal Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--70 J. V. Breakwell A Doubly Singular Problem in Optimal Interplanetary Guidance . . . . . . . . 71--77 Lawrence Markus Controllability of Nonlinear Processes 78--90 J. Warga Minimax Problems with Unilateral Curves in the Calculus of Variations . . . . . 91--105 R. V. Gamkrelidze On some extremal problems in the theory of differential equations with applications to the theory of optimal control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--128 Angelo Miele Extremal Problems in Aerodynamics . . . 129--141 A. A. Goldstein Convex Programming and Optimal Control 142--146 A. A. Goldstein On Steepest Descent . . . . . . . . . . 147--151 A. V. Balakrishnan Optimal Control Problems in Banach Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--180
T. Guinn The Problem of Bounded Space Coordinates as a Problem of Hestenes . . . . . . . . 181--190 Raymond W. Rishel An Extended Pontryagin Principle for Control Systems whose Control Laws Contain Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205 Michael A. Arbib A Common Framework for Automata Theory and Control Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 206--222 T. A. Burton The Generalized Lienard Equation . . . . 223--230 W. W. Schmaedeke Optimal Control Theory for Nonlinear Vector Differential Equations Containing Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--280 O. L. Mangasarian Pseudo-Convex Functions . . . . . . . . 281--290 Robert McGill Optimum Control, Inequality State Constraints, and the Generalized Newton--Raphson Algorithm . . . . . . . 291--298 E. K. Blum Minimization of Functionals with Equality Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 299--316 Lucien W. Neustadt A General Theory of Minimum-Fuel Space Trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--356
Emilio Roxin On Stability in Control Systems . . . . 357--372 K. R. Meyer On the Existence of Lyapunov Function for the Problem of Lur'e . . . . . . . . 373--383 Arthur Albert and Robert W. Sittler A Method for Computing Least Squares Estimators that Keep Up with the Data 384--417 T. Guinn Weakened Hypotheses for the Variational Problem Considered by Hestenes . . . . . 418--423 J. Warga Variational Problems with Unbounded Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--438 Hsin Chu A Remark on Complete Controllability . . 439--442 F. N. Bailey The Application of Lyapunov's Second Method to Interconnected Systems . . . . 443--462 Harold J. Kushner On the Existence of Optimal Stochastic Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474 Lamberto Cesari Existence theorems for optimal solutions in Pontryagin and Lagrange problems . . 475--498 Harold J. Kushner Sufficient Conditions for the Optimality of a Stochastic Control . . . . . . . . 499--508
Richard Bellman Dynamic programming, system identification, and suboptimization . . 1--5 V. E. Bene\vs Programming and control problems arising from optimal routing in telephone networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--18 A. Blaqui\`ere Further investigation into the geometry of optimal processes . . . . . . . . . . 19--33 M. D. Canon and James H. Eaton A new algorithm for a class of quadratic programming problems with application to control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--45 Sheldon S. L. Chang General Theory of Optimal Processes . . 46--55 George B. Dantzig Linear control processes and mathematical programming . . . . . . . . 56--60 Elmer G. Gilbert An iterative procedure for computing the minimum of a quadratic form on a convex set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--80 A. A. Goldstein Minimizing Functionals on Normed-Linear Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--89 Hubert Halkin A maximum principle of the Pontryagin type for systems described by nonlinear difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 90--111 Yu-Chi Ho and R. L. Kashyap A class of iterative procedures for linear inequalities . . . . . . . . . . 112--115 W. Karush and R. E. Dear An optimal procedure for an $N$-stage learning process . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--129 H. P. Künzi The Duoplex Method in Nonlinear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--138 O. L. Mangasarian Sufficient conditions for the optimal control of nonlinear systems . . . . . . 139--152 J. J. Moreau Quadratic programming in mechanics: Dynamics of one-sided constraints . . . 153--158 R. Pallu de la Barri\`ere Duality in Dynamic Optimization . . . . 159--163 J. D. Pearson Duality and a Decomposition Technique 164--172 P. Varaiya Decomposition of Large-Scale Systems . . 173--178 Richard Van Slyke and Roger Wets Programming under uncertainty and stochastic optimal control . . . . . . . 179--193 G. Zoutendijk Nonlinear programming: a numerical survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--210 András Pr\`ekopa On the probability distribution of the optimum of a random linear program . . . 211--222 J. B. Rosen Iterative solution of nonlinear optimal control problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--244 Rinaldo F. Vachino Steepest descent with inequality constraints on the control variables . . 245--261
J. M. Holtzman and H. Halkin Discretional convexity and the maximum principle for discrete systems . . . . . 263--275 David L. Russell Optimal regulation of linear symmetric hyperbolic systems with finite dimensional controls . . . . . . . . . . 276--294 Kumpati S. Narendra and Charles P. Neuman Stability of a class of differential equations with a single monotone nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308 B. S. Goh The second variation for the singular Bolza problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--325 V. G. Boltyanskii Sufficient conditions for optimality and the justification of the dynamic programming method . . . . . . . . . . . 326--361 R. L. Stratonovich A new representation for stochastic integrals and equations . . . . . . . . 362--371 M. Anvari and R. F. Datko The existence of optimal controls for a performance index with a positive integrand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--381 Yoshiyuki Sakawa On a solution of an optimization problem in linear systems with quadratic performance index . . . . . . . . . . . 382--395
R. S. Bucy New Results in Asymptotic Control Theory 397--402 C. D. Cullum and E. Polak Equivalence relations for the classification and solution of optimal control problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--420 Yu-Chi Ho Optimal Terminal Maneuver and Evasion Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--428 Seymour Ginsburg and Edwin H. Spanier Finite-Turn Pushdown Automata . . . . . 429--453 S. Kullback An information-theoretic derivation of certain limit relations for a stationary Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--459 T. A. Burton Some Liapunov Theorems . . . . . . . . . 460--465 William A. Porter On the Optimal Control of Distributive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--472 Jane Cullum Perturbations of Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--487 Jane Cullum A maximum principle for optimal control problems in which the phase space constraint set is closed . . . . . . . . 488--504 Lucien W. Neustadt An abstract variational theory with applications to a broad class of optimization problems. I. General theory 505--527 M. Canon and C. Cullum and E. Polak Constrained minimization problems in finite-dimensional spaces . . . . . . . 528--547 D. H. Chyung and E. Bruce Lee Linear Optimal Systems with Time Delays 548--575
B. N. Pshenichniy Linear Optimal Control Problems . . . . 577--593 J. D. Pearson On the Duality between Estimation and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--600 A. I. Egorov Optimal processes in distributed parameter systems and certain problems in invariance theory . . . . . . . . . . 601--661 George W. Haynes On the optimality of a totally singular vector control: an extension of the Green's theorem approach to higher dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--677 Ruey-Wen Liu and R. Jeffrey Leake Exhaustive equivalence classes of optimal systems with separable controls 678--685 H. O. Fattorini Some Remarks on Complete Controllability 686--694 Nam P. Bhatia Addendum: ``On exponential stability of linear differential systems'' . . . . . 695--697 P. P. Varaiya and R. Liu Bounded-input bounded-output stability of nonlinear time-varying differential systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--704 J. E. Rubio A fixed-point method for a minimum-norm control problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--715 B. S. Goh Necessary conditions for singular extremals involving multiple control variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--731 K. Kirchgässner and K. Ritter On stationary points of nonlinear maximum-problems in Banach spaces . . . 732--739 R. W. Rishel An example concerning rockets capable of impulsive thrust . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--744
Leonard D. Berkovitz Necessary conditions for optimal strategies in a class of differential games and control problems . . . . . . . 1--24 F. M. Kirillova Applications of functional analysis to the theory of optimal processes . . . . 25--50 S. Kullback An extension of an information-theoretic derivation of certain limit relations for a Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53 R. J. Leake and Ruey-wen Liu Construction of Suboptimal Control Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63 L. M. Silverman and H. E. Meadows Controllability and observability in time-variable linear systems . . . . . . 64--73 James S. Meditch Orthogonal projection and discrete optimal linear smoothing . . . . . . . . 74--89 Lucien W. Neustadt An abstract variational theory with applications to a broad class of optimization problems. II. Applications 90--137 Wayne Schmaedeke Mathematical theory of optimal control for semilinear hyperbolic systems in two independent variables . . . . . . . . . 138--152 P. P. Varaiya On the Existence of Solutions to a Differential Game . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162 V. B. Gindes Optimal Control in a Linear System under Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--169
B. D. O. Anderson A System Theory Criterion for Positive Real Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--182 Michael M. Connors Controllability of discrete, linear, random dynamical systems . . . . . . . . 183--210 A. M. Formal\cprimeski\u\i Construction of the region of controllability for systems with bounded-impulse controls . . . . . . . . 211--221 V. B. Gindes A Problem of Optimal Joint Control . . . 222--227 H. Kushner Converse theorems for stochastic Liapunov functions . . . . . . . . . . . 228--233 Siegfried H. Lehnigk Liapunov's direct method and the number of zeros with positive real parts of a polynomial with constant complex coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--244 G. R. Antelman and C. B. Russell and I. R. Savage Surveillance problems: Two-dimensional with continuous surveillance . . . . . . 245--267 Donald M. Topkis and Arthur F. Veinott, Jr. On the convergence of some feasible direction algorithms for nonlinear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--279 V. F. Dem'yanov and A. M. Rubinov The minimization of a smooth convex functional on a convex set . . . . . . . 280--294 R. M. Goldwyn and K. P. Sriram and M. Graham Time Optimal Control of a Linear Diffusion Process . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308
A. V. Balakrishnan On the problem of deducing states and state-relations from input-output relations for linear time-varying systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--325 T. F. Bridgland, Jr. On the problem of approximate synthesis of optimal controls . . . . . . . . . . 326--344 Dong Hak Chyung Optimal Systems with Multiple Cost Functionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--351 A. I. Egorov Necessary optimality conditions for distributed-parameter systems . . . . . 352--408 H. Hermes On the closure and convexity of attainable sets in finite and infinite dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--417 Marc Q. Jacobs Some existence theorems for linear optimal control problems . . . . . . . . 418--437 E. J. McShane Relaxed Controls and Variational Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--485 W. M. Wonham Optimal stationary control of a linear system with state-dependent noise . . . 486--500
Toshio Fujisawa and Yutaka Yasuda An iterative procedure for solving the time-optimal regulator problem . . . . . 501--512 Elmer G. Gilbert A note on the fixed-point method of J. E. Rubio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514 W. C. Grimmell The existence of piecewise continuous fuel optimal controls . . . . . . . . . 515--519 H. J. Kushner Optimal discounted stochastic control for diffusion processes . . . . . . . . 520--531 Togo Nishiura On an Existence Theorem for Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--544 A. Paz A finite set of $ n \times n $ stochastic matrices generating all $n$-dimensional probability vectors whose coordinates have finite binary expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--554 William A. Porter On Function Space Pursuit-Evasion Games 555--574 Leonard Weiss On the Controllability of Delay-Differential Systems . . . . . . . 575--587 Moshe Zakai On the ultimate boundedness of moments associated with solutions of stochastic differential equations . . . . . . . . . 588--593 D. O. Norris Lagrangian Saddle Points and Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--599 G. P. Akilov and L. V. Kantorovich and G. Sh. Rubinshtein Extremal States and Extremal Controls 600--608 A. F. Filippov Classical solutions of differential equations with multi-valued right-hand side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--621 Marc Q. Jacobs Remarks on some recent extensions of Filippov's implicit functions lemma . . 622--627 J. Warga Functions of Relaxed Controls . . . . . 628--641 J. Warga Restricted Minima of Functions of Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642--656
R. A. Baker and C. A. Desoer Asymptotic stability in the large of a class of single-loop feedback systems 1--8 H. T. Banks Necessary conditions for control problems with variable time lags . . . . 9--47 Theodore A. Bickart Instability of Periodically Time-Varying Linear Control Systems . . . . . . . . . 48--57 T. F. Bridgland, Jr. Errata: ``On the problem of approximate synthesis of optimal controls'' . . . . 58--58 V. F. Dem'yanov The Solution of Some Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72 V. F. Dem'yanov and A. M. Rubinov Minimization of Functionals in Normed Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88 G. Zames and P. L. Falb Stability conditions for systems with monotone and slope-restricted nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108 H. O. Fattorini A remark on the ``bang--bang'' principle for linear control systems in infinite-dimensional space . . . . . . . 109--113 Bertram Mond and Morgan Hanson Duality for Control Problems . . . . . . 114--120 L. M. Silverman and B. D. O. Anderson Controllability, observability and stability of linear systems . . . . . . 121--130 H. S. Witsenhausen A Counterexample In Stochastic Optimum Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
A. V. Balakrishnan On a New Computing Technique in Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--173 Pavol Brunovský On the necessity of a certain convexity condition for lower closure of control problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--185 Chi-tsong Chen $ L_p $-stability of linear time-varying feedback systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--193 Wendell H. Fleming Optimal Control of Partially Observable Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--214 A. Halanay Optimal Controls for Systems with Time Lag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234 J. M. Holtzman Analysis of statistical linearization of nonlinear control systems . . . . . . . 235--243 K. G. Oza and E. I. Jury System identification and the principle of random contraction mapping . . . . . 244--257 Patrick D. Krolak Further extensions of Fibonaccian search to nonlinear programming problems . . . 258--265 Bruce L. Miller Finite state continuous time Markov decision processes with a finite planning horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--280 Paul Nelson, Jr. and Gale Young A class of nonstandard optimal control problems with application to nuclear reactor economics . . . . . . . . . . . 281--302 William A. Porter A minimization problem and its applications to optimal control and system sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311 W. M. Wonham On the Separation Theorem of Stochastic Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--326
A. Chang and J. Rissanen Regulation of Incompletely Identified Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--348 H. O. Fattorini Boundary Control Systems . . . . . . . . 349--385 W. R. Haseltine Existence and stability theorems for exterior ballistics . . . . . . . . . . 386--400 V. Komkov The optimal control of a transverse vibration of a beam . . . . . . . . . . 401--421 Andre de Korvin Approximation Theorems on Some Classes of Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--436 A. G. Butkovsky and A. I. Egorov and K. A. Lurie Optimal control of distributed systems (a survey of Soviet publications) . . . 437--476 R. E. Rink and R. R. Mohler Completely Controllable Bilinear Systems 477--486 M. Freedman and G. Zames Logarithmic variation criteria for the stability of systems with time-varying gains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507
M. D. Canon and C. D. Cullum A Tight Upper Bound on the Rate of Convergence of Frank--Wolfe Algorithm 509--516 Lamberto Cesari Existence theorems for optimal controls of the Mayer type . . . . . . . . . . . 517--552 D. A. Ford and C. D. Johnson Invariant subspaces and the controllability and observability of linear dynamical systems . . . . . . . . 553--558 M. I. Freedman $ L_2 $-stability of time-varying systems---construction of multipliers with prescribed phase characteristics 559--578 A. Halanay Differential Games with Delay . . . . . 579--593 H. Hermes Errata: On the closure and convexity of attainable sets in finite and infinite dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--595 H. J. Kushner On the optimal control of a system governed by a linear parabolic equation with white noise inputs . . . . . . . . 596--614 B. D. O. Anderson and J. B. Moore Algebraic structure of generalized positive real matrices . . . . . . . . . 615--624 Kumpati S. Narendra and Yo-Sung Cho Stability analysis of nonlinear and time-varying discrete systems . . . . . 625--646 D. O. Norris Erratum: Lagrangian saddle points and optimal control . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--647 J. Ponstein Multiplier Functions in Optimal Control 648--658 Leonard Weiss On the structure theory of linear differential systems . . . . . . . . . . 659--680 W. M. Wonham On a Matrix Riccati Equation of Stochastic Control . . . . . . . . . . . 681--697
H. T. Banks Variational Problems Involving Functional Differential Equations . . . 1--17 B. M. Budak and E. M. Berkovich and E. N. Solov\cprimeeva Difference Approximations in Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--31 Jane Cullum Discrete approximations to continuous optimal control problems . . . . . . . . 32--49 Elmer G. Gilbert The decoupling of multivariable systems by state feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 50--63 I. V. Girsanov Certain Relations Between the Bellman and Krotov Functions for Dynamic Programming Problems . . . . . . . . . . 64--67 Thomas Kailath Application of a resolvent identity to a linear smoothing problem . . . . . . . . 68--74 D. L. Lukes Optimal Regulation of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 75--100 D. L. Lukes and D. L. Russell The Quadratic Criterion for Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121 Katta G. Murty On the Tours of a Traveling Salesman . . 122--131 David L. Russell Continuity in the strong topology of operator-valued solutions of nonlinear differential equations with an application to optimal control . . . . . 132--140 P. Varaiya and Jiguan Lin Existence of Saddle Points in Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . 141--157 Marc Q. Jacobs On the approximation of integrals of multivalued functions . . . . . . . . . 158--177
James H. Case Toward a Theory of Many Player Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197 Marco Cirin\`a Boundary Controllability of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 198--212 Fred Glover Integer Programming over a Finite Additive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--231 Monique Guignard Generalized Kuhn--Tucker conditions for mathematical programming problems in a Banach Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--241 Muo S. Lee and C. S. Hsu On the $ \tau $-decomposition method of stability analysis for retarded dynamical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 242--259 Kazimierz Malanowski On Optimal Control of the Vibrating String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--271 E. J. Messerli and E. Polak On Second Order Necessary Conditions of Optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--291 Stefan Miric\ua On the Admissible Synthesis in Optimal Control Theory and Differential Games 292--316 James G. Root Optimum Control of Non-Gaussian Linear Stochastic Systems with Inaccessible State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323 V. R. Vinokurov Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. I . . . . . . . . 324--336 V. R. Vinokurov Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. II . . . . . . . 337--345 V. R. Vinokurov Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. III . . . . . . . 346--355 M. Y. Wu and C. A. Desoer $ L^p $ stability $ (1 \leq p \leq \infty) $ of nonlinear time-varying feedback systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--364 W. M. Wonham Erratum: ``On a matrix Riccati equation of stochastic control'' . . . . . . . . 365--365
S. S. Chitgopekar Continuous Time Markovian Sequential Control Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 367--389 Moshe Zakai A Lyapunov Criterion for the Existence of Stationary Probability Distributions for Systems Perturbed by Noise . . . . . 390--397 B. D. O. Anderson and J. B. Moore New Results in Linear System Stability 398--414 Robert O. Barr An efficient computational procedure for a generalized quadratic programming problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--429 David W. Walkup and Roger J.-B. B. Wets Some Practical Regularity Conditions for Nonlinear Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 430--436 W. A. Wolovich and P. L. Falb On the Structure of Multivariable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--451 P. L. Falb and M. I. Freedman A Generalized Transform Theory for Causal Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--471 M. I. Freedman and P. L. Falb and J. Anton A Note on Causality and Analyticity . . 472--478 M. I. Freedman and P. L. Falb and G. Zames A Hilbert space stability theory over locally compact Abelian groups . . . . . 479--495 J. R. Krasnakevich and R. A. Haddad Generalized Prediction-Correction Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--511 Eliezer Kreindler On Sensitivity of Closed Loop Nonlinear Optimal Control Systems . . . . . . . . 512--520
M. C. Delfour and S. K. Mitter Reachability of perturbed systems and $ {\rm min \, sup} $ problems . . . . . . 521--533 James E. Falk Lagrange Multipliers and Nonconvex Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--545 L. I. Gal'Chuk Optimal Control of Systems Described by Parabolic Equations . . . . . . . . . . 546--558 M. D. Grigoriadis and K. Ritter A parametric method for semidefinite quadratic programs . . . . . . . . . . . 559--577 D. H. Jacobson A new necessary condition of optimality for singular control problems . . . . . 578--595 Frank P. Romeo, Jr. Sequentially Best Filter . . . . . . . . 596--608 D. W. Ross and I. Flügge-Lotz An optimal control problem for systems with differential-difference equation dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--623 C. Bradley Russell Surveillance Problems. Poisson Process Under Costly Surveillance . . . . . . . 624--636 I. G. Sarma and R. K. Ragade and U. R. Prasad Necessary conditions for optimal strategies in a class of noncooperative $N$-person differential games . . . . . 637--644 Jan C. Willems Stability, Instability, Invertibility and Causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--671
W. M. Wonham and A. S. Morse Decoupling and Pole Assignment in Linear Multivariable Systems: a Geometric Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Michael Heymann and John A. Thorpe Transfer Equivalence of Linear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--40 Robert Meyer The Validity of a Family of Optimization Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54 H. S. Witsenhausen On Performance Bounds for Uncertain Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--89 Kunio Tsujioka Remarks on Controllability of Second Order Evolution Equations in Hilbert Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--99 Yoshiyuki Sakawa Solution of Linear Pursuit-Evasion Games 100--112 (or 101--112??) V. A. Cheprasov On Controllability of Nonlinear Systems 113--123 I-Ngo Chen and C. L. Sheng The decision problems of definite stochastic automata . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
S. De Julio Numerical Solution of Dynamical Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . 135--147 Jean Pierre Aubin Characterization of the Sets of Constraints for Which the Necessary Conditions for Optimization Problems Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--162 H. Tokumaru and N. Adachi and K. Goto Davidon's Method for Minimization Problems in Hilbert Space with an Application to Control Problems . . . . 163--178 V. E. Bene\vs Existence of optimal strategies based on specified information, for a class of stochastic decision problems . . . . . . 179--188 J. S. Shafran and J. Y. S. Luh Recoverability for Processes with Bounded Control Amplitudes and Rates . . 189--201 Gerald S. Lellouche A Frequency Criterion for Oscillatory Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--206 D. Chazan and W. L. Miranker Nongradient and Parallel Algorithm for Unconstrained Minimization . . . . . . . 207--217 Arnold P. Jones and Garth P. McCormick A Generalization of the Method of Balakrishnan. Inequality Constraints and Initial Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 218--225 Richard Datko Measurability Properties of Set-Valued Mappings in a Banach Space . . . . . . . 226--238 M. Aoki and P. C. Yue On Certain Convergence Questions in System Identification . . . . . . . . . 239--256 Harold J. Kushner and Daniel I. Barnea On the Control of a Linear Functional-Differential Equation with Quadratic Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--272 Vadim Komkov Optimal Control of Vibrating Thin Plates 273--304
Jean Céa and Kazimierz Malanowski An example of a max-min problem in partial differential equations . . . . . 305--316 A. S. Morse and W. M. Wonham Decoupling and Pole Assignment by Dynamic Compensation . . . . . . . . . . 317--337 Ye. Ya. Ro\u\itenberg Observability of Nonlinear Systems . . . 338--345 Harold J. Kushner Filtering for Linear Distributed Parameter Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 346--359 J. Warga Control Problems with Functional Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--371 J. Warga Unilateral and Minimax Control Problems Defined by Integral Equations . . . . . 372--382 Gunter H. Meyer On Fixed Time Control Problems in a Banach Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--395 Thomas Pecsvaradi and Kumpati S. Narendra New Iterative Procedure for the Minimization of a Quadratic Form on a Convex Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--402 D. H. Jacobson Sufficient Conditions for Nonnegativity of the Second Variation in Singular and Nonsingular Control Problems . . . . . . 403--423 Velimir Jurdjevic Abstract Control Systems. Controllability and Observability . . . 424--439 V. R. Vinokurov Erratum: ``Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. I'' . . 440--440
Pravin Varaiya $N$-person nonzero sum differential games with linear dynamics . . . . . . . 441--449 G. W. Haynes and H. Hermes Nonlinear Controllability via Lie Theory 450--460 H. T. Banks and Marc Q. Jacobs The optimization of trajectories of linear functional differential equations 461--488 E. J. Davison and E. G. Kunze Some sufficient conditions for the global and local controllability of nonlinear time-varying systems . . . . . 489--497 J. E. Funk and E. G. Gilbert Some Sufficient Conditions for Optimality in Control Problems with State Space Constraints . . . . . . . . 498--504 Sanjo Zlobec Asymptotic Kuhn--Tucker conditions for mathematical programming problems in a Banach space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--512 James E. Potter and James C. Deckert The minimal bound on the estimation error covariance matrix in the presence of correlated driving noise . . . . . . 513--526 C. Vìrsan Necessary Conditions for Optimization Problems with Operatorial Constraints 527--558 Raymond Rishel Necessary and sufficient dynamic programming conditions for continuous time stochastic optimal control . . . . 559--571 L. W. Neustadt and J. Warga Comments on the paper ``Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. I'' by V. R. Vinokurov . . . 572--572 Claude Lobry Contrôlabilité des syst\`emes non linéaires. (French) [Controllability of nonlinear systems] . . . . . . . . . . . 573--605
S. K. Mitter and R. Foulkes Controllability and Pole Assignment for Discrete Time Linear Systems Defined over Arbitrary Fields . . . . . . . . . 1--7 A. S. C. Sinha and R. G. Hoft Stability of a Nonautonomous Differential Equation of Fourth Order 8--14 W. E. Bosarge, Jr. and O. G. Johnson Error Bounds of High Order Accuracy for the State Regulator Problem via Piecewise Polynomial Approximations . . 15--28 David L. Russell Boundary Value Control of the Higher-Dimensional Wave Equation . . . . 29--42 P. C. Das and R. R. Sharma On optimal controls for measure delay-differential equations . . . . . . 43--61 Earl R. Barnes Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for a Class of Distributed Parameter Control Systems . . . . . . . 62--82 James W. Daniel Convergence of a Discretization for Constrained Spline Function Problems . . 83--96 (or 83--86??) Nelson Onuchic Invariance properties in the theory of ordinary differential equations with applications to stability problems . . . 97--104 Jan C. Willems The Generation of Lyapunov Functions for Input-Output Stable Systems . . . . . . 105--134 Donald J. Soults and H. T. David The Distribution of $ 2 \times n $ Game Values and Program Optima . . . . . . . 135--141 A. Halanay Erratum: ``Optimal controls for systems with time lag'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
A. S. Morse Output Controllability and System Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148 H. S. Witsenhausen On Information Structures, Feedback and Causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--160 J. P. McDanell and W. F. Powers Necessary Conditions Joining Optimal Singular and Nonsingular Subarcs . . . . 161--173 O. L. Mangasarian and L. L. Schumaker Discrete Splines via Mathematical Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--183 U. G. Haussmann Optimal Stationary Control with State Control Dependent Noise . . . . . . . . 184--198 L. M. Silverman and H. J. Payne Input-Output Structure of Linear Systems with Application to the Decoupling Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--233 D. L. Lukes Equilibrium Feedback Control in Linear Games with Quadratic Costs . . . . . . . 234--252 Stephen H. Saperstone and James A. Yorke Controllability of linear oscillatory systems using positive controls . . . . 253--262 Hitoshi Sasai and Etsujro Shimemura On the convergence of approximating solutions for linear distributed parameter optimal control problems . . . 263--273 W. W. Willman Some effects of measurement uncertainty in linear multistage games . . . . . . . 274--286 Lamberto Cesari Closure, lower closure, and semicontinuity theorems in optimal control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--315
M. I. Freedman and R. Glassey Tracking Via Feedback for Systems with Irrational Transfer Function . . . . . . 317--338 Otomar Hájek Geometric Theory of Time-Optimal Control 339--350 James A. Yorke Another Proof of the Liapunov Convexity Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353 Tyrone Duncan and Pravin Varaiya On the Solutions of a Stochastic Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--371 R. G. Agniel and E. I. Jury Almost Sure Boundedness of Randomly Sampled Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--384 Colin W. Cryer The Solution of a Quadratic Programming Problem using Systematic Overrelaxation 385--392 Jerald P. Dauer Perturbations of Linear Control Systems 393--400 David L. Russell Boundary Value Control Theory of the Higher-Dimensional Wave Equation,Part II 401--419 J. Rissanen Recursive Identification of Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--430 Y. V. Venkatesh Global Variation Criteria for Stability of Linear Time Varying Systems . . . . . 431--440 I. G. Sarma and U. R. Prasad A Note on the Necessary Conditions for Optimal Strategies in a Class of Noncooperative $N$-Person Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--445 V. E. Benes Existence of Optimal Stochastic Control Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--472 Wendell H. Fleming Stochastic Control for Small Noise Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--517
Raymond W. Rishel Weak Solutions of a Partial Differential Equation of Dynamic Programming . . . . 519--528 B. Curtis Eaves and W. I. Zangwill Generalized Cutting Plane Algorithms . . 529--542 Inge Troch A Note on Complete Controllability . . . 543--546 Gerard G. L. Meyer and E. Polak Abstract Models for the Synthesis of Optimization Algorithms . . . . . . . . 547--560 D. O. Norris A Generalized Lagrange Multiplier Rule for Equality Constraints in Normed Linear Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--567 A. R. Bergen and R. L. Franks Justification of the Describing Function Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--589 L. Cesari and J. R. La Palm and D. A. Sanchez An Existence Theorem for Lagrange Problems with Unbounded Controls and a Slender Set of Exceptional Points . . . 590--605 Robert A. Abrams and Adi Ben-Israel Nonlinear Programming in Complex Space: Necessary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 606--620 E. Wong Representation of Martingales, Quadratic Variation and Applications . . . . . . . 621--633
Jon H. Davis Stability Conditions Derived from Spectral Theory: Discrete Systems with Periodic Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Sheng-Chao Huang Optimal Control Problems with a System of Integral Equations and Restricted Phase Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . 14--36 G. T. Rublein On Pursuit with Curvature Constraints 37--39 Yu. G. Dutkevich and L. A. Petrosyan Games with a ``Life-Line''. The Case of $l$-Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47 R. A. Skoog On Dynamical Systems Realizing Stationary Weighting Patterns and Time-Varying Feedback Systems . . . . . 48--55 R. F. Baum and L. Cesari On a Recent Proof of Pontryagin's Necessary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 56--75 S. P. Gordon On Converses to the Stability Theorems for Difference Equations . . . . . . . . 76--81 N. Minamide and K. Nakamura Linear Bounded Phase Coordinate Control Problems under Certain Regularity and Normality Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 82--92 G. P. McCormick and R. A. Tapia The Gradient Projection Method under Mild Differentiability Conditions . . . 93--98 Marvin I. Freedman Phase Function Norm Estimates for Stability of Systems with Monotone Nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111 D. L. Lukes Global Controllability of Nonlinear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--126 R. Gabasov and F. M. Kirillova High Order Necessary Conditions for Optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--168 Robert Faure Sur L'Existence et le Comportement de Cycles de Certaines Équations Différentielles Non Linéaires (Solutions Périodiques de Syst\`emes Autonomes) . . 169--193 L. A. Petrosyan Topological Games and Their Applications to Pursuit Problems. I . . . . . . . . . 194--202 Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Input-Output Stability of a Broad Class of Linear Time-Invariant Multivariable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209 Prasadarao Kakumanu Nondiscounted Continuous Time Markovian Decision Process with Countable State Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--220
Nam P. Bhatia Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii Henry Hermes The Geometry of Time-Optimal Control . . 221--229 Leonard Weiss Controllability, Realization and Stability of Discrete-Time Systems . . . 230--251 V. M. Popov Invariant Description of Linear, Time-Invariant Controllable Systems . . 252--264 R. W. Brockett System Theory on Group Manifolds and Coset Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--284 A. V. Balakrishnan Stochastic Control: a Function Space Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297 M. C. Delfour and S. K. Mitter Controllability, Observability and Optimal Feedback Control of Affine Hereditary Differential Systems . . . . 298--328 M. C. Delfour and S. K. Mitter Controllability and Observability for Infinite-Dimensional Systems . . . . . . 329--333 James A. Yorke The Maximum Principle and Controllability of Nonlinear Equations 334--338 Robert F. Brammer Controllability in Linear Autonomous Systems with Positive Controllers . . . 339--353 Velimir Jurdjevic Certain Controllability Properties of Analytic Control Systems . . . . . . . . 354--360 Kwang Yun Lee and Shui-Nee Chow and Robert O. Barr On the Control of Discrete-Time Distributed Parameter Systems . . . . . 361--376 Earl R. Barnes A Procedure for Solving Certain Dual Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . 377--392 A. N. V. Rao Comparison of Differential Games of Fixed Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--397
R. E. O'Malley, Jr. The Singularly Perturbed Linear State Regulator Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 399--413 Bezalel Peleg Efficiency Prices for Optimal Consumption Plans. IV . . . . . . . . . 414--433 Earl R. Barnes A Geometrically Convergent Algorithm for Solving Optimal Control Problems . . . . 434--443 Andrzej P. Wierzbicki Maximum Principle for Semiconvex Performance Functionals . . . . . . . . 444--459 Michael Heymann The Prime Structure of Linear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--469 Hector J. Sussmann The ``Bang--Bang'' Problem for Certain Control Systems in $ {\rm GL}(n, R) $ 470--476 Thomas Kailath A Note on Least Squares Estimation by the Innovations Method . . . . . . . . . 477--486 A. B. Schwarzkopf Optimal Controls for Problems with a Restricted State Space . . . . . . . . . 487--511 W. A. Wolovich The Use of State Feedback for Exact Model Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--523 R. Klessig and E. Polak Efficient Implementations of the Polak--Ribi\`ere Conjugate Gradient Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--549 H. J. Kushner Necessary Conditions for Continuous Parameter Stochastic Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--565 D. L. Lukes Erratum: Equilibrium Feedback Control in Linear Games with Quadratic Costs . . . 566--566
H. T. Banks and G. A. Kent Control of Functional Differential Equations of Retarded and Neutral Type to Target Sets in Function Space . . . . 567--593 Tullio Zolezzi Necessary Conditions for Optimal Controls of Elliptic or Parabolic Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--607 Jon H. Davis Fredholm Operators, Encirclements, and Stability Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 608--622 Richard F. Baum Existence Theorems for Multidimensional Control Systems with Lower-Dimensional Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--638 John J. H. Miller On the Stability of Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--648 Jane Cullum Finite-Dimensional Approximations of State-Constrained Continuous Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--670 S. P. Gordon A Stability Theory for Perturbed Difference Equations . . . . . . . . . . 671--678 T. K. C. Peng Invariance and Stability for Bounded Uncertain Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 679--690 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar State Constraints in Convex Control Problems of Bolza . . . . . . . . . . . 691--715 Masao Ikeda and Hajime Maeda and Shinzo Kodama Stabilization of Linear Systems . . . . 716--729 Hitoshi Sasai Note on the Penalty Method for Distributed Parameter Optimal Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--736 C. A. Desoer and F. M. Callier Convolution Feedback Systems . . . . . . 737--746 Ronald J. Stern Asymptotic Behavior of the Value of Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . 747--753 A. V. Balakrishnan Martingale Approach to Linear Recursive State Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--766
Antony Jameson and Eliezer Kreindler Inverse Problem of Linear Optimal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19 (or 1--9??) Ronald J. Stern Open Loop Approximation of Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--31 Richard Datko Unconstrained Control Problems with Quadratic Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--52 James W. Daniel The Ritz--Galerkin method for abstract optimal control problems . . . . . . . . 53--63 Grace Wahba On the minimization of a quadratic functional subject to a continuous family of linear inequality constraints 64--79 R. Klessig and E. Polak An adaptive precision gradient method for optimal control . . . . . . . . . . 80--93 S. Ramarajan and M. A. L. Thathachar Construction of stability multipliers with prescribed phase characteristics: an improved value for $ \sigma $ . . . . 94--99 R. J. Elliott and N. J. Kalton and L. Markus Saddle Points for Linear Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--112 Gerard G. L. Meyer A Drivable Method of Feasible Directions 113--118 Timothy L. Johnson Minimum-energy terminal state control of first order linear hyperbolic systems in one spatial variable using the method of characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--129 M. B. Suryanarayana Necessary conditions for optimization problems with hyperbolic partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . 130--147 P. D'Alessandro and A. Isidori and A. Ruberti A new approach to the theory of canonical decomposition of linear dynamical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 148--158 Pierre Loridan Sur un Procédé d'Optimisation Utilisant Simultanément les Méthodes de Pénalisation et des Variations Locales. I . . . . . . 159--172 Pierre Loridan Sur un procédé d'optimization utilisant simultanement les méthodes de pénalisation et des variations locales. II. (French) [On an optimization procedure using simultaneously penalty and local variation methods] . . . . . . . . . . . 173--184 V. R. Vinokurov Further comments on the paper: ``Optimal control of processes described by integral equations. I''. (Izv. Vys\vs. U\vcebn. Zaved. Matematika \bf 62, no. 7 (1976), 21--33) by V. R. Vinokurov . . . 185--185 D. L. Lukes Erratum: ``Global controllability of nonlinear systems'' (SIAM J. Control \bf 10 (1972), 112--126) . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Lawrence D. Stone Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal control of semi-Markov jump processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--201 Hajime Maeda Stability considerations for a Volterra integral equation with discontinuous nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--214 A. S. Morse and L. M. Silverman Structure of Index-Invariant Systems . . 215--225 M. H. A. Davis and P. Varaiya Dynamic programming conditions for partially observable stochastic systems 226--261 B. P. Molinari The stabilizing solution of the algebraic Riccati equation . . . . . . . 262--271 B. P. Molinari Equivalence relations for the algebraic Riccati equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--285 Emile K. Haddad A criterion for the bounded-input, bounded-output stability of time-varying nonlinear systems . . . . . . . . . . . 286--305 Václav Dole\vzal Equations Describing Multidimensional Causal Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--322 Anders Lindquist On Feedback Control of Linear Stochastic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--343 Earl R. Barnes Solution of a Dual Problem in Optimal Control Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--357 Thomas G. Hack Extensions of the concept of regular synthesis as a sufficient condition for optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--374 A. A. Goldstein and R. A. Tapia Kantorovich Estimates for Some Convex Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377 Stephen Howe New conditions for exactness of a simple penalty function . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--381 U. G. Haussmann Stability of linear systems with control dependent noise . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--394 Jerald P. Dauer Errata: ``Perturbations of linear control systems'' . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
James O. Flynn Lion and Man: The Boundary Constraint 397--411 M. L. J. Hautus and G. J. Olsder A uniqueness theorem for linear control systems with coinciding reachable sets 412--416 Stephen H. Saperstone Global controllability of linear systems with positive controls . . . . . . . . . 417--423 W. M. Wonham Tracking and regulation in linear multivariable systems . . . . . . . . . 424--437 Hilbert K. Schultz A Kuhn--Tucker Algorithm . . . . . . . . 438--445 A. S. Morse Structural invariants of linear multivariable systems . . . . . . . . . 446--465 A. Papoulis A Different Approach to the Analysis of Tracer Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--474 David L. Russell Quadratic performance criteria in boundary control of linear symmetric hyperbolic systems . . . . . . . . . . . 475--509 R. S. McKnight and W. E. Bosarge, Jr. The Ritz--Galerkin procedure for parabolic control problems . . . . . . . 510--524 Stephen M. Robinson and Robert R. Meyer Lower semicontinuity of multivalued linearization mappings . . . . . . . . . 525--533 O. Pironneau and E. Polak A dual method for optimal control problems with initial and final boundary constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--549
Romano M. DeSantis On state realization and causality decomposition for nonlinear systems . . 551--562 Stanley R. Pliska Multiperson Controlled Diffusions . . . 563--586 M. H. A. Davis On the existence of optimal policies in stochastic control . . . . . . . . . . . 587--594 David E. Cowles An existence theorem for optimization problems involving integral equations 595--606 Gunnar Aronsson Global controllability and bang-bang steering of certain nonlinear systems 607--619 H. Gardner Moyer Sufficient conditions for a strong minimum in singular control problems . . 620--636 Dimitri P. Bertsekas and Sanjoy K. Mitter A descent numerical method for optimization problems with nondifferentiable cost functionals . . . 637--652 M. L. J. Hautus Necessary conditions for multiple constraint optimization problems . . . . 653--669 Arthur J. Krener On the Equivalence of Control Systems and the Linearization of Nonlinear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--676 L. Cesari and J. R. La Palm and D. A. Sánchez Erratum: ``An existence theorem for Lagrange problems with unbounded controls and a slender set of exceptional points'' (SIAM J. Control \bf 9 (1971), 590--605) . . . . . . . . 677--677
C. Lobry Controllability of Nonlinear Systems on Compact Manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 W. M. Wonham and J. B. Pearson Regulation and Internal Stabilization in Linear Multivariable Systems . . . . . . 5--18 B. F. Mitchell and V. F. Dem'yanov and V. N. Malozemov Finding the Point of a Polyhedron Closest to the Origin . . . . . . . . . 19--26 Leonard D. Berkovitz Existence and Lower Closure Theorems for Abstract Control Problems . . . . . . . 27--42 Arthur J. Krener A Generalization of Chow's Theorem and the Bang--Bang Theorem to Nonlinear Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52 James Flynn Some Results on Max-Min Pursuit . . . . 53--69 R. Datko Neutral Autonomous Functional Equations with Quadratic Cost . . . . . . . . . . 70--82 Ronald A. Skoog Positivity Conditions and Instability Criteria for Feedback Systems . . . . . 83--98 U. G. Haussmann On the Existence of Moments of Stationary Linear Systems with Multiplicative Noise . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 A. H. Zemanian Relaxive Hilbert Ports . . . . . . . . . 106--123 N. J. Rao and J. D. Borwanker and D. Ramkrishna Numerical Solution of Ito Integral Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--139 Kenneth R. Gehner Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for the Fritz John Problem with Linear Equality Constraints . . . . 140--149 Richard B. Vinter Generalization to Dual Banach Spaces of a Theorem by Balakrishnan . . . . . . . 150--166 Ronald J. Stern Differential Games of Survival with Space-Like Terminal Set . . . . . . . . 167--177
Anonymous Lucien W. Neustadt --- in Memoriam . . . 179--183 Karol Makowski and Lucien W. Neustadt Optimal Control Problems with Mixed Control-Phase Variable Equality and Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . 184--228 Hubert Halkin Implicit Functions and Optimization Problems without Continuous Differentiability of the Data . . . . . 229--236 A. V. Balakrishnan On the Approximation of Ito Integrals Using Band-Limited Processes . . . . . . 237--251 H. Hermes On Local and Global Controllability . . 252--261 L. S. Pontryagin Linear Differential Games . . . . . . . 262--267 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Augmented Lagrange Multiplier Functions and Duality in Nonconvex Programming . . 268--285 J. Warga Optimal Controls with Pseudodelays . . . 286--299 E. F. Mishchenko On the Problem of Evading the Encounter in Differential Games . . . . . . . . . 300--310 Czeslaw Olech Characterization of the Weak Closure of Certain Sets of Integrable Functions . . 311--318 Lamberto Cesari An Existence Theorem without Convexity Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--331 R. V. Gamkrelidze and G. L. Kharatishvili A Differential Game of Evasion with Nonlinear Control . . . . . . . . . . . 332--349
N. U. Ahmed and K. L. Teo An Existence Theorem on Optimal Control of Partially Observable Diffusions . . . 351--355 Daniel H. Wagner and Lawrence D. Stone Necessity and Existence Results on Constrained Optimization of Separable Functionals by a Multiplier Rule . . . . 356--372 Daniel H. Wagner and Lawrence D. Stone Optimization of Allocations Under a Coverability Condition . . . . . . . . . 373--379 Charles J. Holland Small Noise Open Loop Control . . . . . 380--388 Yoshiyuki Sakawa Controllability for Partial Differential Equations of Parabolic Type . . . . . . 389--400 Jean-Michel Bismut An Example of Optimal Stochastic Control with Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418 Richard C. Scalzo $N$-Person Linear-Quadratic Differential Games with Constraints . . . . . . . . . 419--425 Richard C. Scalzo Differential Games with Restricted Phase Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--435 Ethelbert Nwakuche Chukwu Symmetries of Autonomous Linear Control Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--448 Robert F. Brammer Geometrically Constrained Observability 449--459 A. Bensoussan Points de Nash Dans le Cas de Fonctionnelles Quadratiques et Jeux Differentiels linéaires \`a $N$ Personnes 460--499 Marshall Slemrod A note on complete controllability and stabilizability for linear control systems in Hilbert space . . . . . . . . 500--508 J. P. Evans and F. J. Gould An Existence Theorem for Penalty Function Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--516 Paolo D'Alessandro and Alberto Isidori and Antonio Ruberti Realization and Structure Theory of Bilinear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . 517--535 Romano M. De Santis Causality, Strict Causality and Invertibility for Systems in Hilbert Resolution Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 536--553 Anthony N. Michel Stability Analysis of Interconnected Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--579
James Flynn Lion and Man: The General Case . . . . . 581--597 R. Klessig General Theory of Convergence for Constrained Optimization Algorithms that Use Antizigzagging Provisions . . . . . 598--608 Ronald B. Zmood Euclidean Space Controllability of Control Systems with Delay . . . . . . . 609--623 Pavol Brunovský The Closed-Loop Time-Optimal Control. I: Optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--634 B. Martinet and A. Auslender Méthodes de décomposition pour la minimisation d'une fonction sur un espace produit (French) [Decomposition methods for function minimization in a product space] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--642 Hitoshi Sasai Interior Penalty Method for Minimax Problems with Constraints . . . . . . . 643--649 Gerald M. Armstrong An Extension of an Optimal Control Sufficiency Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 650--654 Gerard G. L. Meyer Accelerated Frank--Wolfe Algorithms . . 655--663 Thomas L. Steding and Arthur R. Bergen Instability of Nonlinear Infinite-Dimensional Feedback Systems Using Lyapunov Functionals . . . . . . . 664--678 Frederic H. Murphy A Class of Exponential Penalty Functions 679--687 E. Fabian and W. M. Wonham Generic Solvability of the Decoupling Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--694 D. L. Lukes Global Controllability of Disturbed Nonlinear Equations . . . . . . . . . . 695--704 L. Cesari and M. B. Suryanarayana Convexity and Property $ (Q) $ in Optimal Control Theory . . . . . . . . . 705--720 J. Zabczyk Remarks on the Control of Discrete-Time Distributed Parameter Systems . . . . . 721--735 Anders Lindquist New Algorithm for Optimal Filtering of Discrete-Time Stationary Processes . . . 736--746 Anders Lindquist Optimal Filtering of Continuous-Time Stationary Processes by Means of the Backward Innovation Process . . . . . . 747--754 Vaclav Dolezal Hilbert Networks. I . . . . . . . . . . 755--778
H. O. Fattorini Boundary Control of Temperature Distributions in a Parallelepipedon . . 1--13 Yoshiyuki Sakawa Observability and Related Problems for Partial Differential Equations of Parabolic Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--27 J. E. Rubio Generalized Curves and Extremal Points 28--47 M. C. Delfour and C. McCalla and S. K. Mitter Stability and the Infinite-Time Quadratic Cost Problem for Linear Hereditary Differential Systems . . . . 48--88 Ruth F. Curtain Infinite-Dimensional Filtering . . . . . 89--104 Robert J. Elliott and Avner Friedman A Note on Generalized Pursuit-Evasion Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109 D. D. Thompson and R. A. Volz Linear Quadratic Cost Problem with Linear State Constraints and the Nonsymmetric Riccati Equation . . . . . 110--145 J. Baranger and R. Temam Nonconvex Optimization Problems Depending on a Parameter . . . . . . . . 146--152 Vaclav Dolezal and Armen Zemanian Hilbert Networks. II: Some Qualitative Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--161 Hirotugu Akaike Markovian Representation of Stochastic Processes by Canonical Variables . . . . 162--173 Keith D. Graham and David L. Russell Boundary Value Control of the Wave Equation in a Spherical Region . . . . . 174--196 E. J. Cockayne and G. W. C. Hall Plane Motion of a Particle Subject to Curvature Constraints . . . . . . . . . 197--220 J. S. Baras and R. W. Brockett $ H^2 $-Functions and Infinite-Dimensional Realization Theory 221--241
Yulia Schmookler Statistical Mechanics and Systems of Large Numbers of Elements with Random Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--270 Stephen M. Robinson Application of Error Bounds for Convex Programming in a Linear Space . . . . . 271--273 P. K. C. Wang Optimal Control of Parabolic Systems with Boundary Conditions Involving Time Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--293 Gregory Knowles Lyapunov Vector Measures . . . . . . . . 294--303 Masao Ikeda and Hajime Maeda and Shinzo Kodama Estimation and Feedback in Linear Time-Varying Systems: a Deterministic Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--326 R. E. O'Malley, Jr. and C. F. Kung The Singularly Perturbed Linear State Regulator Problem. II . . . . . . . . . 327--337 Raymond Rishel Dynamic Programming and Minimum Principles for Systems with Jump Markov Disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--371 I. Bert Russak Second Order Necessary Conditions for Problems with State Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--388 Mineo Ikeda and Kentaro Sakamoto On the Concept of Symmetry in Pontryagin's Maximum Principle . . . . . 389--399 Huibert Kwakernaak Periodic Linear Differential Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--413 Héctor J. Sussmann On the Number of Directions Needed to Achieve Controllability . . . . . . . . 414--419 E. Noldus Instability Criteria for Time-Varying Nonlinear Functional Differential Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--433 Michael E. Warren and Adrian E. Eckberg, Jr. On the Dimensions of Controllability Subspaces: a Characterization via Polynomial Matrices and Kronecker Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--445 William N. Anderson, Jr. and Richard J. Duffin and George E. Trapp Matrix Operations Induced by Network Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--461 Roberto Triggiani Controllability and Observability in Banach Space with Bounded Operators . . 462--491
G. David Forney, Jr. Minimal Bases of Rational Vector Spaces, with Applications to Multivariable Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--520 Dimitri P. Bertsekas Combined Primal-Dual and Penalty Methods for Constrained Minimization . . . . . . 521--544 Charles J. Holland Gaussian Open Loop Control Problems . . 545--551 B. M. Anderson and F. M. Brasch, Jr. and P. V. Lopresti Sequential Construction of Minimal Partial Realizations from Finite Input-Output Data . . . . . . . . . . . 552--571 Peddapullaiah Sannuti Asymptotic Expansions of Singularly Perturbed Quasi-Linear Optimal Systems 572--592 P. A. Cook Circle Criteria for Stability in Hilbert Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--610 H. T. Banks and Marc Q. Jacobs and C. E. Langenhop Characterization of the Controlled States in $ W_2^{(1)} $ of Linear Hereditary Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 611--649 Alejo Planchart and Arthur P. Hurter, Jr. Efficient Algorithm for the Solution of the Weber Problem with Mixed Norms . . . 650--665 Lamberto Cesari Convexity of the Range of Certain Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--676 A. B. Schwarzkopf Relaxed Control Problems with State Equality Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 677--694 A. B. Schwarzkopf Controllability and Tenability of Nonlinear Systems with State Equality Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--705 Robert A. Abrams Projections of Convex Programs with Unattained Infima . . . . . . . . . . . 706--718 Hiroshi Inaba and Byron D. Tapley Generalized Random Processes: a Theory and the White Gaussian Process . . . . . 719--735 Micha Hofri Stochastic Scheduling Design in Multiserver Systems . . . . . . . . . . 736--748
R. S. Bucy Structural Stability for the Riccati Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--753 Viorel Barbu Convex Control Problems of Bolza in Hilbert Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--771 O. L. Mangasarian Unconstrained Lagrangians in Nonlinear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--791 B. P. Molinari Nonnegativity of a Quadratic Functional 792--806 Ethelbert N. Chukwu Finite Time Controllability of Nonlinear Control Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 807--816 J. Casti and L. Ljung Some New Analytic and Computational Results for Operator Riccati Equations 817--826 Arthur J. Krener Bilinear and Nonlinear Realizations of Input-Output Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 827--834 L. F. Pau Differential Games and a Nash Equilibrium Searching Algorithm . . . . 835--852 J. Snyders and W. M. Wonham Regulation of Linear Stochastic Systems 853--864 Zvi Artstein Weak Convergence of Set-Valued Functions and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--878 James Ting-Ho Lo Global Bilinearization of Systems with Control Appearing Linearly . . . . . . . 879--885 James Ting Ho Lo and Alan S. Willsky Stochastic Control of Rotational Processes with One Degree of Freedom . . 886--898 Helmut Maurer Example of a Continuous Junction for a Singular Control Problem of Even Order 899--903 A. Bensoussan and M. Viot Optimal Control of Stochastic Linear Distributed Parameter Systems . . . . . 904--926 William L. Root On the Modeling of Systems for Identification. I: $ \varepsilon $-Representations of Classes of Systems 927--944 William L. Root On the Modeling of Systems for Identification. Part II: Time-Varying Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--974 A. V. Balakrishnan Errata: On the Approximation of Ito Integrals Using Band-Limited Processes. 975--975
T. Parthasarathy and T. E. S. Raghavan Existence of Saddle Points and Nash Equilibrium Points for Differential Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--980 N. U. Ahmed and K. L. Teo Necessary Conditions for Optimality of Cauchy Problems for Parabolic Partial Differential Systems . . . . . . . . . . 981--993 P. Kall and W. Oettli Measurability Theorems for Stochastic Extremals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--998 R. Boel and P. Varaiya and E. Wong Martingales on Jump Processes. I: Representation Results . . . . . . . . . 999--1021 R. Boel and P. Varaiya and E. Wong Martingales on Jump Processes. II: Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1061 Viorel Barbu On the Control Problem of Bolza in Hilbert Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1076 Tyrone Duncan and Pravin Varaiya On the Solutions of a Stochastic Control System. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1092 Jakov Snyders Error Expressions for Optimal Stationary State Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1102 John B. Moore and S. Sankar Sengupta Existence and Control of Markov Chains in Systems of Deterministic Motion . . . 1103--1114
Stanley R. Pliska Semigroup Representation of the Maximum Expected Reward Vector in Continuous Parameter Markov Decision Theory . . . . 1115--1129 Ruth F. Curtain The Infinite Dimensional Riccati Equation with Applications to Affine Hereditary Differential Systems . . . . 1130--1143 Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Coprime Factorizations and Stability of Multivariable Distributed Feedback Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144--1155 Andrew Acker Stability Criteria for Time-Varying Systems in Hilbert Space . . . . . . . . 1156--1171 Violet B. Haas On Normality and Conjugate Point Criteria for Singular Extremals . . . . 1172--1182 D. O. Norris and L. E. Snyder Consistency of Least-Squares Estimates Used in Linear Systems Identification 1183--1193 Garth P. McCormick An Arc Method for Nonlinear Programming 1194--1216 Jerzy Zabczyk On Optimal Stochastic Control of Discrete-Time Systems in Hilbert Space 1217--1234 G. A. Hewer Periodicity, Detectability and the Matrix Riccati Equation . . . . . . . . 1235--1251 Michael A. Arbib and Ernest G. Manes Time-Varying Systems . . . . . . . . . . 1252--1270 Norman Levitt and Héctor J. Sussmann On Controllability by Means of Two Vector Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1281
C. Lobry Erratum: Contrôlabilité des syst\`emes non linéaires. (French) [Erratum: Controllability of nonlinear systems] 387--387
L. B. Weiner Comments on: ``Generalized Prediction-Correction Estimation'' . . . 857--858 R. S. Bucy Erratum: Structural Stability for the Riccati Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--904