Optimization and Control Techniques and Applications

Part I: Optimization and Control Theory.- Chapter 1. Some Recent Developments in Systems and Control Theory on Infinite Dimensional Banach Spaces.- Chapter 2. Some Recent Developments in Systems and Control Theory on Infinite Dimensional Banach Spaces.- Chapter 3. A Class of History-dependent Inclusions with Applications to Contact Problems.- Chapter 4. On the Number of Solutions Generated by the Simplex Method for LP.- Chapter 5. Use of Approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Inequality for Solving Periodic Optimization Problems.- Chapter 6. On Proper Efficiency in Multi objective Semi-Infinite Optimization.- Chapter 7. Using Penalty in Mathematical Decomposition for Production-Planning to Accommodate Clearing Function Constraints of Capacity.- Part II: Techniques and Applications.- Chapter 8. Minimum Time Synchronization of Chaotic Systems via Numerical Optimal Control Techniques.- Chapter 9. The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition.- Chapter 10. Admissibility Analyses for Dynamic Input-Output Economic Models with Multiple Delays.- Chapter11. Content Based Image Retrieval Using Local Directional Pattern and Color Histogram.- 12. Time-minimal Orbital Transfers to Temporarily-Captured Natural Earth Satellites.- 13. A Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization Exploiting Snap-Back Repellers of a Perturbation-Based System.- 14. Modeling and Analysis of the Cyber Infrastructure for Vehicle Route Optimization.

Professor Honglei Xu' research interests include theory and applications of nonlinear control and systems engineering.

Professor Kok Lay Teo's research interests include both the theoretical and numerical aspects of optimal control and optimization, and their practical applications such as signal processing in telecommunications and financial portfolio optimization.

Professor Yi Zhang's research interests include hybrid systems and their applications.