CONTENTS

GUEST EDITORIAL

ARTICLES

XIAOYAN ZENG, MIHAI ANIŢESCU, CANDIDO PEREIRA, MONICA REGALBUTO
A Framework for Chemical Plant Safety Assessment under Uncertainty

CHARLES HAMAKER
Optimization of a Constrained Quadratic Function

AURELIAN NICOLA, CONSTANTIN POPA
Sparse Matrix Techniques in Scientific Computing

ANGEL GARRIDO
Chain Graphs and Directed Acyclic Graphs Improved by Equivalence Classes and their Essential Graphs

XIAO CHEN, I. M. NAVON
Optimal Control of a Finite-Element Limited-Area Shallow-Water Equations Model

MARIUS RĂDULESCU, CONSTANŢA ZOIE RĂDULESCU, GHEORGHIŢĂ ZBĂGANU
Asset Allocation Models in Discrete Variable

XING LIU, FLORIAN A. POTRA
Pattern Separation and Prediction via Linear and Semidefinite Programming

FLORIN RĂDULESCU
Cyclic Hilbert Spaces

NILS-HASSAN QUTTINEH, KENNETH HOLMSTRÖM
The Influence of Experimental Designs on the Performance of Surrogate Model Based Costly Global Optimization Solvers

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