This constitutes the Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP TC7 Conference held in July 2005, in Torino, Italy, and dedicated to Camillo Possio, on the 60th anniversary of his death during the last air raid over Torino. The papers in this volume concern primarily stochastic and distributed systems, their control/optimization, and inverse problems. These proceedings also explore applications of optimization techniques and computational methods in fields such as medicine, biology and economics.

This book presents selected proceedings from the 22nd biennial IFIP conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Turin, Italy in July of 2005. This edition of the conference is dedicated to the achievements of Camillo Possio, who was killed sixty years ago during the last air raid over Turin.

System Modeling and Optimization covers optimization, oiptimization with PDE constraints, structural systems optimization, algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming, stochastic optimization, control and game theory, combinatorial and discrete optimization, identification and inverse problems, fault detection, shape identification, complex systems, stability and sensitivity analysis, neural networks, fractal and chaos, reliability, computational techniques in distributed systems and in information processing environments, transmission of information in complex systems, and database design.

This book presents selected proceedings from the 22nd biennial IFIP conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Turin, Italy in July of 2005. This edition of the conference is dedicated to the achievements of Camillo Possio, who was killed sixty years ago during the last air raid over Turin.

System Modeling and Optimization covers optimization, oiptimization with PDE constraints, structural systems optimization, algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming, stochastic optimization, control and game theory, combinatorial and discrete optimization, identification and inverse problems, fault detection, shape identification, complex systems, stability and sensitivity analysis, neural networks, fractal and chaos, reliability, computational techniques in distributed systems and in information processing environments, transmission of information in complex systems, and database design.

The papers presented in this volume mostly concern stochastic and distributed systems, their control/optimization, and inverse problems.

The present edition of the conference is dedicated to Camillo Possio, killed by a bomb during the last air raid over Torino, in the sixtieth anniversary of his death. The special session "On the Possio Equation and its Special Role in Aeroelasticity" was devoted to his achievements. The special session "Shape Analysis and Optimization" commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Pompeiu thesis.

Numerous fields of interest for the seventh Technical Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), chaired by Prof. I. Lasiecka, have been represented at the conference: Optimization; Optimization with PDE constraints; structural systems optimization; algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming; stochastic optimization; control and game theory; combinatorial and discrete optimization; identification and inverse problems; fault detection; shape identification; complex systems; stability and sensitivity analysis; neural networks; fractal and chaos; reliability; and computational techniques in distributed systems - among other areas. These proceedings also explore applications of optimization techniques and of computational methods in fields such as medicine, biology, economics, etc.