Optimal control of nonlinear processes
Subtitle: with applications in drugs, corruption, and terror
By: Dieter Grass ... [et al.].
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9783540776468; 9783540776475
Subjects: Mathematical models; Political corruption; Drug control; Mathematical optimization; Nonlinear theories; Terrorism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-529) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Continuous-time dynamical systems; title: Tour d'horizon: optimal control; title: The path to deeper insight: from Lagrange to Pontryagin; title: Multiple equilibria, points of indifference; title: Higher-dimensional models; title: Numerical methods for discounted systems of infinite horizon; title: Extensions of the maximum principle.