Content: Preface, Page v, Masataka Tanaka, George S. DulikravichSymposium chairpersons, Page viiInternational scientific committee, Pages vii-viiiOrganizing committee, Page viiiSimultaneous estimation of thermophysical properties and heat and mass transfer coefficients of a drying body, Pages 3-12, G.H. Kanevce, L.P. Kanevce, G.S. DulikravichEffects of lateral heat losses on the parameter estimation problem in moist capillary porous media, Pages 13-22, L.B. Dantas, H.R.B. Orlande, R.M. CottaSolution of some inverse heat conduction problems by the dynamic programming filter and BEM, Pages 23-28, W. Chen, Masa. TanakaThe time-to-arrival problem for reconstruction of multidimensional heat flux, Pages 29-38, R. Bialecki, E. Divo, A. KassabEstimation of the heat flux at the surface of ablating materials, Pages 39-48, A.P. De Oliveira, H.R.B. OrlandeEstimation of thermal properties of ablating materials, Pages 49-58, D.V.F.M. Rey Silva, H.R.B. OrlandeSolution to shape optimization problems of continua on thermal elastic deformation, Pages 61-66, Hideyuki Azegami, Seiji Yokoyama, Eiji KatamineA 3-D finite element formulation for the determination of unknown boundary conditions in heat conduction, Pages 67-76, Brian H. Dennis, George S. DulikravichAlternating boundary element inversion scheme for solving inverse boundary value problem from noisy data and its regularization, Pages 77-86, Shiro Kubo, Akira Furukawa, Seiji IokaSolution of inverse geometry problems using bezier splines and sensitivity coefficients, Pages 87-95, Iwona Nowak, Andrzej J. Nowak, Luiz C. WrobelIdentification of boundary conditions by iterative analyses of suitably refined subdomains at biomaterials interfaces, Pages 97-106, P. Vena, R. ControDomain characterization by tomography and material parameter identification for geological surveying, Pages 107-116, Yasuaki IchikawaDetermination of material property of functionally graded cylinder using genetic algorithm, Pages 117-124, G.R. Liu, X. HanInversion of vibration mode of an immersion ultrasonic transducer, Pages 127-136, S. Hirose, K. Kimoto, H. MizushimaThree dimensional shape reconstruction of defects from measured backscattering waveforms, Pages 137-144, M. Yamada, K. Nakahata, M. KitaharaModeling of grain pullout in fatigued polycrystalline alumina, Pages 145-152, M.T. Kokaly, A.S. Kobayashi, K.W. WhiteStructural damage identification of frame model based on filtering algorithm, Pages 153-160, Ryuji Endo, Sumiko Shiota, Nobuyoshi TosakaCrack identification in elastically supported beam by genetic algorithm, Pages 161-166, T. Horibe, N. AsanoParameters identification of an elastic plate subjected to dynamic loading by inverse analysis using bem and kalman filter, Pages 169-180, Masa. Tanaka, T. Matsumoto, H. YamamuraA parameter identification method using observational boundary conditions and wavelet transform, Pages 181-184, Toshiyuki Ohkami, Takeshi UchidaStress distribution within granular body, Pages 185-191, Asuka Matsuoka, Muneo Hori, Akira Murakami, Shigeyasu AoyamaStress distribution determination scheme for elastic plastic material based on equivalent inclusion method, Pages 193-200, Toshihiro Kameda, Shigeru KoyamaAn inverse approach for constructing the residual stress caused by welding, Pages 201-208, Y.P. Cao, Z.H. Yao, N. Hu, H. FukunagaParameter identification for evolution hemivariational inequalities and applications, Pages 211-218, S. MigórskiDirect method for solution of inverse boundary value problem of the laplace equation, Pages 219-226, Kazuei Onishi, Yoko Ohura,A variational approach for finding the source function of the wave equation, Pages 227-234, Satoshi Tobe, Kenji ShirotaILL-Posed Problems and a priori information, Pages 235-244, A. Yagola, V. Titarenko, A. LeonovA parameter estimation problem and its regularization by the conjugate gradient method, Pages 245-250, Robert PlatoNonlinear inverse problems of vibrational spectroscopy, Pages 251-259, G. Kuramshina, N. Anikeeva, A. YagolaCoefficient identification of the wave equation using the alternating directions method, Pages 261-268, Toshiko Sato, Kenji ShirotaConstruction of neural network using cluster analysis and voronoi diagram, Pages 271-279, Kenji Amaya, Shigeru Aoki, Masakazu EndoGeneral optimiser for continuous inverse analysis, Pages 281-290, Tomonari Furukawa, M.W.M.G. Dissanayake, Shinobu YoshimuraInversion method using spectral decomposition of green’s function, Pages 291-299, Muneo Hori, Kenji OguniApplication of stress inversion method to develop crustal deformation monitor of japanese islands, Pages 301-309, Muneo Hori, Teruyki Kato, Kenji Oguni, Takeshi IinumaOptical multilayer coating synthesis by simultaneous optimization of number of layers, refractive index, and thickness, Pages 311-314, Masayuki Nakamura, Kazunori Kobayashi, Mitsuyuki KobayashiAdaptive parallel genetic clustering in parameter inverse problems, Pages 315-324, H. TelegaThe application of modified output error method on alflex flight data, Pages 327-335, Yasumasa Koyama, Fumiaki ImadoFlight trajectory tracking system applied to inverse control for aerobatic maneuvers, Pages 337-344, S. Ochi, H. Takano, Y. BabaStochastic optimization of parameters and control laws of the aircraft gas-turbine engines — A step to a robust design, Pages 345-353, Egorov I.N., Kretinin G.V., Leshchenk I.A.Sensitivity of aerodynamic optimization to parameterized target functions, Pages 355-364, M. Klein, H. SobieczkyUsing the gasdynamic knowledge base for aerodynamic design and optimization in the sonic speed regime, Pages 365-374, M. Trenker, H. SobieczkyDesign of a cascade airfoil shape using the discretized navier-stokes equations, Pages 375-380, Yasuyoshi HoribataApplication of constrained target pressure specification to takanashi's inverse design method, Pages 381-390, T.E. Pambagjo, K. Matsushima, K. Nakahashi, S. ObayashitApproximate identification method for material integrity related to electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation, Pages 393-402, Fumio KojimaOn identification of magnetic sources in materials, Pages 403-410, Hajime Igarashi, Toshihisa Honma3D electrical impedance prospecting simulation based on the dual reciprocity boundary element modelling, Pages 411-418, Takeshi Horikane, Takayuki Hataya, Wei Xu, Yuanxi Zhao, Yukio KagawaAuthor index, Pages 419-420