Session 4

3:40 Direct and Reverse Modes of Automatic Differentiation of Programs for Inverse Problems: Application to Optimum Shapes Design

Bijan Mohammadi, Jean-Michel Male, and Nicole Rostaing-Schmidt, INRIA, France

4:10 Parallelism in the Reverse Mode

Jochen Benary, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

4:30 Direct and Reverse Differentiation Applied to Multibody Dynamics

Dominique Villard, Bruno Arnaldi, and Laurent Cogne, IRISA/INRIA, France

4:50 The Adjoint Variable Method for the Sensitivity Analysis of Multibody Systems Interpreted as Continuous, Hybrid Form of Automatic Differentiation

Peter Eberhard, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany