This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the 23rd IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Cracow, Poland, in July 2007.

The 29 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions. They cover a wide range of topics including optimzation theory; algorithms of nonlinear optimization; discrete optimization; stochastic optimization; distributed parameter systems: modeling and control; optimal control; stochastic control and financial mathematics; structural design; stability and sensitivity analysis in optimal control; and complex systems.

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Plenary Papers.- Performance-Based Design as a Strategy for Risk Reduction: Application to Seismic Risk Assessment of Composite Steel-Concrete Frames.- Efficient Nonlinear Programming Algorithms for Chemical Process Control and Operations.- Application of Evolutionary Optimization in Structural Engineering.- Sufficient Conditions and Sensitivity Analysis for Optimal Bang-Bang Control Problems with State Constraints.- New Applications of Variational Analysis to Optimization and Control.- Problems of Mathematical Finance by Stochastic Control Methods.- Complete Shape Metric and Geodesic.- Regular Papers.- Galerkin Strategy for Level Set Shape Analysis: Application to Geodesic Tube.- Remarks on 0-1 Optimization Problems with Superincreasing and Superdecreasing Objective Functions.- A Hierarchical Multiobjective Routing Model for MPLS Networks with Two Service Classes.- Comparison of the Exact and Approximate Algorithms in the Random Shortest Path Problem.- Free Material Optimization for Plates and Shells.- Elliptic Control by Penalty Techniques with Control Reduction.- Applications of Topological Derivatives and Neural Networks for Inverse Problems.- Factorization by Invariant Embedding of a Boundary Value Problem for the Laplace Operator.- Nonlinear Cross Gramians.- Estimation of Regularization Parameters in Elliptic Optimal Control Problems by POD Model Reduction.- Identification of Material Models of Nanocoatings System Using the Metamodeling Approach.- Using Self-adjoint Extensions in Shape Optimization.- Fundamental Solutions and Optimal Control of Neutral Systems.- Approximate Subgradient Methods for Lagrangian Relaxations on Networks.- A Sample Time Optimization Problem in a Digital Control System.- Level Set Method for Shape and Topology Optimization of ContactProblems.- Second Order Sufficient Optimality Conditions for a Control Problem with Continuous and Bang-Bang Control Components: Riccati Approach.- Shape Sensitivity Analysis for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations.- Conservative Control Systems Described by the Schrödinger Equation.- Topological Derivatives in Plane Elasticity.- Model Order Reduction for Nonlinear IC Models.- Boundary Smoothness of the Solution of Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetics.