Identity control theory has long posited that there are positive emotional consequences to identity verification and negative emotional consequences to the lack of identity verification. While some of the positive consequences of identity verification have been discussed, little work has been...

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...

A supply chain can be characterized as a network of production and logistics processes with a finite number of elements usually belonging to different companies and hierarchies. Thus, SCM means a close, trustful cooperation within this network. Reliability of the network elements is one of the...