Topology Design of Structures, Materials and Mechanisms - Status and Perspectives -- MIP: Theory and Practice - Closing the Gap Robert -- On the Role of Natural Level Functions to Achieve Global Convergence for Damped Newton Methods -- Computational Experience with a Parallel Implementation of an Interior-Point Algorithm for Multicommodity Network Flows -- Modelling the Behavior of Systems: Basic Concepts and Algorithms -- Lipschitzian Stability of Newton's Method for Variational Inclusions -- SQP Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming -- Algorithmic Implications of Duality in Stochastic Programs -- A Model which Integrates Strategic and Tactical Aspects of Forest Harvesting -- Optimization of Chemical Processes Under Uncertainty -- Numerical Solution to the Acoustic Homicidal Chauffeur Game -- Application of a Micro-Genetic Algorithm in Optimal Design of a Diffractive Optical Element -- Semidefinite and Lagrangian Relaxations for Hard Combinatorial Problems -- Recent Developments in Interior-Point Methods -- Other Papers that were Presented at the Conference.