This volume is the second of two volumes representing leading themes of current research in nonlinear analysis and optimization. The articles are written by prominent researchers in these two areas and bring the readers, advanced graduate students and researchers alike, to the frontline of the vigorous research in important fields of mathematics.

This volume contains articles on optimization. Topics covered include the calculus of variations, constrained optimization problems, mathematical economics, metric regularity, nonsmooth analysis, optimal control, subdifferential calculus, time scales and transportation traffic. The companion volume (Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 513) is devoted to nonlinear analysis.

This volume contains the second part of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization in celebration of Alex Ioffe's 70th and Simeon Reich's 60th birthdays which took place on June 18-24, 2008, at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

This book is co-published with Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in nonlinear analysis, optimization, and applications.