This volume is the Proceedings of the International Conference on Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems which took place in Vorau (Austria), from July 14 to July 20, 1996, to be the seventh in a series of conferences inaugurated in 1982. The book contains 23 refereed papers that address various important topics in optimal control and parameter identification of nonlinear dynamic systems described by partial differential equations, such as control and stability of hyperbolic systems, control and identification of parabolic systems, controllability and observability, Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming, optimal and suboptimal control, numerical solution of some of the associated problems. Recent advances in the field are described.
edited by W. Desch, F. Kappel and K. Kunisch
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