1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 Necessary Conditions for Optimality -- 3.0 The Gradient Method -- 3.1 Min H Method and Conjugate Gradient Method -- 3.2 Boundary Constraints -- 3.3 Problems with Control Constraints -- 4.0 Successive Sweep Method -- 4.1 Final Time Given Implicitly -- 5.0 Second-Variation...

This conference volume is a collection of over thirty refereed contributions in the areas of optimization and control. The volume is organized into the following sections: Mathematics of Operations Research and Global Optimization Linear and Combinatorial Programming Tours, Locations and...

1. Introduction -- 2. Control Problem -- Notation and definitions, motivation of later results -- 3. Railroad Train Example -- Motivation of a “bang-bang principle,” the time optimal and minimum fuel problems -- 4. Controllability -- Restricted and unrestricted control, the controllability...

This book presents a systematic account of the development of deterministic, continuous time, optimal control problems defined on an unbounded time interval, based on work ranging from the early seventies to the present. The authors have strived to present the work in a manner accessible to a...

Modeling of Control and Dynamical Systems in the Lime Sciences -- Necessary Conditions in Mathematical Programming and Optimal Control Theory -- Various Topics in the Theory of Optimal Control of Distributed Systems -- Game Theory and Some Interfaces with Control Theory -- Linear Multivariable...