Dr. Kurt Marti is a full Professor of Engineering Mathematics at the „Federal Armed Forces University of Munich“. He is Chairman of the IFIP-Working Group 7.7 on “Stochastic Optimization” and has been Chairman of the GAMM-Special Interest Group “Applied Stochastics and Optimization”. Professor Marti has published several books, both in German and in English, and he is author of more than 160 papers in refereed journals.

• Basic Stochastic Optimization Methods.- Decision/Control Under Stochastic Uncertainty.- Deterministic Substitute Problems in Optimal Decision Under Stochastic Uncertainty.- Differentiation Methods.- Differentiation Methods for Probability and Risk Functions.- Deterministic Descent Directions.- Deterministic Descent Directions and Efficient Points.- Semi-Stochastic Approximation Methods.- RSM-Based Stochastic Gradient Procedures.- Stochastic Approximation Methods with Changing Error Variances.- Reliability Analysis of Structures/Systems.- Computation of Probabilities of Survival/Failure by Means of Piecewise Linearization of the State Function.