The application of PDE-based control theory and the corresponding numerical algorithms to industrial problems have become increasingly important in recent years. This volume offers a wide spectrum of aspects of the discipline, and is of interest to mathematicians and scientists working in the field.

Well-posedness of Semilinear Heat Equations with Iterated Logarithms.- Uniform Stability of Nonlinear Thermoelastic Plates with Free Boundary Conditions.- Exponential Bases in Sobolev Spaces in Control and Observation Problems.- Sampling and Interpolation of Functions with Multi-Band Spectra and Controllability Problems.- Discretization of the Controllability Grammian in View of Exact Boundary Control: the Case of Thin Plates.- Stability of Holomorphic Semigroup Systems under Nonlinear Boundary Perturbations.- Shape Control in Hyperbolic Problems.- Second Order Optimality Conditions for Some Control Problems of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Integral State Constraints.- Intrinsic P(2, 1) Thin Shell Models and Naghdi's Models without A Priori Assumption on the Stress Tensor.- On the Approximate Controllability for some Explosive Parabolic Problems.- Fréchet-Differentiability and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Shape Functionals.- State Constrained Optimal Control for some Quasilinear Parabolic Equations.- Controllability property for the Navier-Stokes equations.- Shape Sensitivity and Large Deformation of the Domain for Norton-Hoff Flows.- On a Distributed Control Law with an Application to the Control of Unsteady Flow around a Cylinder.- Homogenization of a Model Describing Vibration of Nonlinear Thin Plates Excited by Piezopatches.- Stabilization of the Dynamic System of Elasticity by Nonlinear Boundary Feedback.- Griffith Formula and Rice-Cherepanov's Integral for Elliptic Equations with Unilateral Conditions in Nonsmooth Domains.- A Domain Optimization Problem for a Nonlinear Thermoelastic System.- Approximate Controllability for a Hydro-Elastic Model in a Rectangular Domain.- Noncooperative Games with Elliptic Systems.- Incomplete IndefiniteDecompositions as Multigrid Smoothers for KKT Systems.- Domain Optimization for the Navier-Stokes Equations by an Embedding Domain Method.- On the Approximation and Optimization of Fourth Order Elliptic Systems.- On the Existence and Approximation of Solutions for the Optimal Control of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.- Identification of Memory Kernels in Heat Conduction and Viscoelasticity.- Variational Formulation for Incompressible Euler Equation by Weak Shape Evolution.