Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror /

• Main Authors: Grass, Dieter (Author), Caulkins, Jonathan P. (Author), Feichtinger, Gustav (Author), Tragler, Gernot (Author), Behrens, Doris A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Epidemiology.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Dynamic optimization is rocket science – and more. This volume teaches how to harness the modern theory of dynamic optimization to solve practical problems, not only from space flight but also in emerging social applications such as the control of drugs, corruption, and terror. These innovative doma...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Continuous-Time Dynamical Systems
• Applied Optimal Control
• Tour d'Horizon: Optimal Control
• The Path to Deeper Insight: From Lagrange to Pontryagin
• Multiple Equilibria, Points of Indifference, and Thresholds
• Advanced Topics
• Higher-Dimensional Models
• Numerical Methods for Discounted Systems of Infinite Horizon
• Extensions of the Maximum Principle
• Appendices
• Mathematical Background
• Derivations and Proofs of Technical Results.