August 7, 1999 -- Session A
Chateau Laurier
Adam Laurier Room

8:30 - 9:10	Keynote Lecture: Prof. A.B. Gilg
		Design of Dynamic Systems in Electronics Industry:
		Progress and Challenges
		Abstract
		A.B. Gilg
		    (Siemens, GERMANY)
		Next Generation Wireless:  An Industry Outlook
		Abstract
		C. Royer
		    (Nortel Networks)

SESSION IX -- (A) Advances in Optimization and Control

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

9:10 - 9:30	On Bicriterion Discrete Optimal Control Problems
		Abstract
		X.Q. Yang and K.L. Teo
		    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG)


9:30 - 9:50	New Control Parameterization Method for Time-Delayed
		Optimal Control Problems
		Abstract
		M. Kasiama and K.H. Wong
		    (University of Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA)


9:50 - 10:10 	Computation of Feedback Control for Infinite Time
		Optimal Control Problems
		Abstract
		K.H. Wong and G. Peter
		    (University of Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA)


10:10 - 10:30	BREAK

SESSION X -- (A) Selected Topic in Optimization and Control

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

10:30 - 10:50	Existence of Optimal Controls for a Class of Systems
		Governed by Evolution Hemivariational Inequalities
		Abstract
		S. Migorski
		    (Jagiellonian University, POLAND)


10:50 - 11:10	Calculate Reverse Location Problems in Tree Networks
		Abstract
		J. Zhang
		    (City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)


11:10 - 11:30	Existence of Solutions for Strong Fector
		Quasi-Equilibrium Problems 
		G.Y. Chen and Y.M. Cheung


11:30 - 11:50	 
		    

11:50 - 12:10	Stochastic Optimal Control of a Solar Car
		Abstract
		J. Boland, V. Gaitsgory, P.G. Howlett and P.J. Pudney
		    (University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA)
		    

12:10 - 13:30	LUNCH


13:30 - 14:10	Keynote Lecture: Prof. M. Shaninpoor
		 

SESSION XI -- (A) Polymer Sensors and Actuators

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

14:10 - 14:30	


14:30 - 14:50	Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Crystalline
		Elastomers for Artificial Muscles
		Abstract
		H. Wermter, H. Finkelmann and N. Assfalg
		    (Institut f. Makromolekulare Chemie, GERMANY)


14:50 - 15:10	Mechanical and Electromechanical Properties of
		Liquid Crystalline Elastomers with Possible Applications
		to Sensors 
		H.R. Brand


15:10 - 15:30	BREAK

SESSION XII -- (A) New Topics on Optimization and Control Today

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

15:30 - 15:50	
		L. Caccetta


15:50 - 16:10	Practical Stability of a Control System with
		Delay and Impulsive Effects
		Abstract
		X. Liu
		    (University of Waterloo, CANADA)


16:10 - 16:30	Optimal Control of Nonlinear Delay Systems
		Abstract
		S.P. Banks
		    (University of Sheffield, UK)


16:30 - 16:50	Optimal Control of Systems with Finite Control Sets
		Abstract
		P.G. Howlett
		    (University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA)
		A. Leizarowitz
		    (Technion, ISRAEL)


16:50 - 17:10	Global Optimization and Hierarchical Control in
		Large-Scale Nonconvex Steady-State Systems
		Abstract
		F. Qian, B. Wan and D. Li





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