Because of the clearly important role cooperative systems play in areas such as military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and economics, just to name a few, the study of cooperative systems has intensified. This book provides an insight in the basic understanding of cooperative...

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control. Professor Sethi is internationally one of the foremost experts in this field. He is, among others, co-author of the popular textbook...

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management and economics. It brings to students the concept of the maximum principle in continuous and discrete time by using dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some...

This textbook is intended for an introductory graduate level on process control, taught in most engineering curricula. It focuses on the statistical techniques and methods of control and system optimization needed for the mathematical modeling, analysis, simulation, control and optimization of...

1 Macroeconomic Policies and Instrument Instability -- 1.1 A Keynesian Economy under the Government Budget Constraint -- 1.2 Optimal Policies by Means of Two Instruments -- 1.3 A Combination Policy -- 1.4 The Case Allowing Instrument Cost -- 1.5 Formulation of a Standard Control System --...

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a Vanishing Mutual Repulsion -- Inverse Linear Programming -- Second-Order Conditions in C1,1 Vector Optimization with Inequality and Equality Constraints -- Benson Proper...

Scatter Search -- Experiments Using Scatter Search for the Multidemand Multidimensional Knapsack Problem -- A Scatter Search Heuristic for the Fixed-Charge Capacitated Network Design Problem -- Tabu Search -- Tabu Search-Based Metaheuristic Algorithm for Large-scale Set Covering Problems --...

This book focuses on the applications of optimal control theory to operations strategy and supply chain management. It emphasizes the importance of optimal control theory as a tool to analyze and understand fundamental issues in the respective fields. Delving deeper, the book also elaborates on...

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome. This book poses the following questions: are spatial inequalities harmful...