Real life phenomena of engineering, natural science or medical problems are often formulated by means of a mathematical model to simulate the behaviour of the system in computerized form. Advantages of mathematical models are their cheap availability, the possibility to simulate extreme situations that cannot be handled by experiments, or to simulate real systems during the design phase before constructing a first prototype.


The scope of the book is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art numerical methods that are needed to compute parameters of a dynamical model by fitting methods.


The book is a mathematical 'toolbox' for all those, who have to identify parameters in dynamical systems in chemistry, physics, medicine, pharmacy, or the life sciences. Besides of about 750 practical examples on CD-ROM to point out various modeling concepts, 12 real-life case studies are presented with some industrial or academic background.