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This book is devoted to optimal control problems for systems described by nonlinear operator or operator-differential equations in Banach spaces with coercive or monotone (in a modified sense) operators and constraints on the control and trajectory taking the form of nonlinear operator inequalities or inclusions. The whole exposition is divided into three parts. Part 1 is an extensive introduction and, in particular, presents elements of the theory of monotone operators. Part 2 deals with extremal problems of the following form: Let X be a reflexive Banach space, \(X^*\) its dual, \({\mathcal U}\) a Banach space (of controls) dual to another Banach space, U a \(weak^*\)-closed subset of \({\mathcal U}\), \(L: U\times X\to R\) a cost functional, P(X) the set of nonempty subsets of X, \(K: U\times X\to P(x)\) a multivalued function, Y a semiordered Banach space. Find \(\inf_{u\in U}J(u)\), \(J(u)=L(u,y(u))\) subject to \[ (1)\quad A(u,y)=f,\quad y\in K(u,y),\quad F(u,y)\geq 0, \] where A: \(U\times X\to X^*\) and F: \(U\times X\to Y\) are nonlinear operators, \(f\in X^*\). Moreover, the authors consider the above problem with (1) replaced by \(f\in A(u,y)\), where A is a multivalued operator. In turn, Part 3 deals with extremal problems stated as follows: Let V be a reflexive Banach space, \(V^*\) its dual, H a Hilbert space identified with is dual and \(V\subset H\subset V^*\) with continuous and dense injections, \(S=[0,T]\), \(T>0\), \(X=L_{p_ 1}(S;V)\cap L_{p_ 0}(S;H),\) \(1<p_ 1\leq p_ 0<\infty,\) and \({\mathcal U}\), U, L, F, K, f as in Part 2. Find \(\inf_{u\in U}J(u),\quad J(u)=L(u,y(u))\) subject to \[ y'\in -A(u,y)+f,\quad y(0)=y_ 0,\quad F(u,y)\geq 0,\quad y\in K\subset X, \] where A: \(U\times X\to X^*\) is a nonlinear (possibly) multivalued operator. For the above extremal problems and their many variations the authors examine the existence of a solution, derive optimality conditions in the form of variational inequalities, as well as construct regularizing and finite-dimensional approximations. The book concludes with several examples of application of the general abstract results to specific nonlinear distributed parameter systems.