%0 Journal Article %A Ortiz, Michael %A Mielke, Alexander %T A class of minimum principles for characterizing the trajectories and the relaxation of dissipative systems %J ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations %D 2008 %P 494-516 %V 14 %N 3 %I EDP-Sciences %U http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/cocv:2007064/ %R 10.1051/cocv:2007064 %G en %F COCV_2008__14_3_494_0