| Abstract: | An essential part of science, engineering and economics is the development of mathematical models to describe how certain quatities relate to one another. For example, such models have proven to be extremely powerful in predicting the value of financial instruments, and in providing high performance control of robots, and in detecting faults or changes in petrochemical processing plants. This project is directed at developing such models using modern computer based optimisation methods, but for situations that, on the one hand, have previously been considered unsolvable, and on the other, are acknowledged as being of high practical interest. |
