Nikolai Osmolovskii holds several professorships, which include positions at the University of Siedlce, the Polish Academy of Science and the Technical University of Radom. He has authored 50 research papers and four monographs. Helmut Maurer has held a professorship at the University of Muenster since 1977; he retired in 2010, but remains active in many international research projects.
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List of figures; Notation; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Second-Order Optimality Conditions for Broken Extremals in the Calculus of Variations: 1. Abstract scheme for obtaining higher-order conditions in smooth extremal problems with constraints; 2. Quadratic conditions in the calculus of variations; 3. Quadratic conditions for optimal control problems with mixed control-state constraints problems; 4. Jacobi-type conditions and Riccati equation; Part II. Second-Order Optimality Conditions in Optimal Bang-Bang Control Problems: 5. Second-order optimality conditions in optimal control; 6. Second-order optimality conditions for bang-bang control; 7. Bang-bang control and induced optimization problem; 8. Numerical methods for solving the induced optimization problem; Bibliography; Index.

