CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Preface -- New methods for applying the Adomian method to partial differential equations with boundary conditions -- A different approach for solving singular two-point boundary value problems -- Geometrical interpretation and approximate solution of non-linear KdV equation -- A reliable approach to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. -- A comparison of numerical solutions of fourth-order boundary value problems -- Direct identification of general linear compartmental systems by means of (n 2 2) compartments measures -- Solving inequalities by a-dense curves. Application to global optimization -- Adomian method for solving adaptive control problem -- Global optimization via a-dense curves -- Identification of closed Michaelis-Menten system by a linear approach -- A new decomposition method based on infinite products -- A reliable method for obtaining approximate solutions of linear and nonlinear Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations -- Global optimization: the Alienor mixed method with Piyavskii-Shubert technique -- The Alienor method coupled to the Brent algorithm -- A global optimization method for a large number of variables (variant of Alienor method) -- A new reducing transformation for global optimization (with Alienor method) -- Solving constrained global optimization problems without penalty parameters -- Alienor method for global optimization with a large number of variables -- A new "Optimization-Preserving- Operator" applied to global optimization -- Coupling Adomian and spectral methods for obtaining a numerical solution of an optimal control problem in cancer research -- Pharmacokinetic parameters identification using the combined Alienor/Adomian methods.

New results about the identifiability of linear open bicompartmental homogeneous system and the identification of open Michaelis-Menten system by a linear approach -- Identification of an anticancerous drug model in brain tissues using Adomian/Alienor methods -- Optimal control of chemotherapy of HIV model using the coupled Adomian/Alienor methods -- Alienor method applied to operational research -- Combined Adomian/Alienor methods for solving adaptive control problems in chemotherapy -- Current research summaries -- Systems theory and the science of military command and control -- Systemic philosophy and the philosophy of social science - Part I -- Cybernetics and systems on the web: internet newsletters -- News, conferences and technical reports -- Book reviews -- Book reports -- Announcements -- Special announcements.