The tragedy of Great Power politics

Topology Design of Structures, Materials and Mechanisms — Status and Perspectives.- MIP: Theory and Practice — Closing the Gap Robert.- On the Role of Natural Level Functions to Achieve Global Convergence for Damped Newton Methods.- Computational Experience with a Parallel Implementation of an Interior-Point Algorithm for Multicommodity Network Flows.- Modelling the Behavior of Systems: Basic Concepts and Algorithms.- Lipschitzian Stability of Newton’s Method for Variational Inclusions.- SQP Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming.- Algorithmic Implications of Duality in Stochastic Programs.- A Model which Integrates Strategic and Tactical Aspects of Forest Harvesting.- Optimization of Chemical Processes Under Uncertainty.- Numerical Solution to the Acoustic Homicidal Chauffeur Game.- Application of a Micro-Genetic Algorithm in Optimal Design of a Diffractive Optical Element.- Semidefinite and Lagrangian Relaxations for Hard Combinatorial Problems.- Recent Developments in Interior-Point Methods.- Other Papers that were Presented at the Conference.