Chapter headings and selected papers: Controller Design for Nonlinear Systems. Global regulation problem for nonlinear systems (S.M. Fei, C.-B. Feng). Sliding Mode Control of Nonlinear Systems. Nonlinear sliding surface design in the presence of uncertainty (A. Loukianov et al.). H-Infinity and Nonlinear Control. Control of nonlinear systems via feedback linearization and constrained model predictive control (W.-K. Son, O.K. Kwon). Optimization and Related Topics I. Optimization of boundary and starting controls in multi-dimensional hyperbolic systems (A.V....