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

By Jonathan P. Caulkins , Dieter Grass , Gustav Feichtinger , Gernot Tragler , Doris A. Behrens

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
354077646X, 9783540776468, 9783540776475
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5584516 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
572\556
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Dynamic optimization is rocket science – and more. This volume teaches researchers and students alike to harness the modern theory of dynamic optimization to solve practical problems. These problems not only cover those in space flight, but also in emerging social applications such as the control of drugs, corruption, and terror. This volume is designed to be a lively introduction to the mathematics and a bridge to these hot topics in the economics of crime for current scholars. The authors celebrate Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle – that crowning intellectual achievement of human understanding. The rich theory explored here is complemented by numerical methods available through a companion web site.

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