Optimal control of nonlinear processes: with applications in drugs, corruption and terror

The goal of this book is to prepare readers to apply optimal control theory to nonlinear processes beyond the standard applications. The examples investigated in depth are drawn from drug policy, corruption, and counter-terror, so this book will be of particular interest to economists, epidemiologists, and other scholars interested in the economics of crime, health, and violence. However, the book is designed to simultaneously appeal to an even larger audience ofstudents in mathematics, economics, biosciences, and operations research for whom it fills a gap in the literature between ‘cookbooks’, that give recipes but not deeper understanding, and more formal mathematical treatment that do not explain how to apply the theory to practical problems. Besides providing thetheoretical foundations, the book contains applications in various fields Applications cover very timely topics like drug policy, corruption, and counter-terror INDICE: Part I Background: Introduction.- Continuous Dynamical Systems.- Part II Applied Optimal Control: Tour d'Horizon: Optimal Control.- The Path to Deeper Insight: From Lagrange to Pontryagin.- Multiple Equilibria, Points of Indefference, and Thresholds.- Part III Advanced Topics: Higher-Dimensional Models.- Numerical Methods for Discounted Systems.- Extensions of the Maximum Principle.- Part IV Appendices: Mathematical Background.- Derivations and Proofs of Technical Results.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-77646-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 495
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés