1 Table of Contents: “...Preface -- Notation -- Chapter 1: Basics of Optimal Design -- Chapter 2: Basics of Optimization...”

2 “..., statistical mechanics, control and optimization theory. Specific attention is devoted to systems...”

3 “... theoretical developments and new techniques based on control, optimization theory, mathematical modeling...”

4 “..., and health sciences. It provides recent theoretical developments and new techniques based on optimization...”