Special issue on the 5th international conference on optimization and control with applications (OCA5)

Abstract

The 5th International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA5) was held at the China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China on December 4–8, 2012. As a continuation of the OCA series, OCA5 provided an international forum for scientists, engineers, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and approaches, to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions, to share experiences on potentials and limits and to open new avenues of research and developments on all issues and topics related to optimization and control. More than 200 representatives from over 20 countries and regions such as China, United States, Canada, Australia, Russia and Japan presented their latest work and discussed new progresses on optimization and control with applications. Conference participants were then invited to submit their expanded papers to Optimization Letters (OPTL). After peer reviews of all the submitted papers in accordance with the usual stringent reviewing process of OPTL, ten (10) papers have been accepted for publication in this special issue. The topics covered in this special issue include: derivative variation approaches for optimal control, primal-dual interior point methods for optimal design, penalty methods for finite-dimensional obstacle problem, modified