Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics - Hardcover

Felipo Vicente; Gerald L. Thompson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792386086 ISBN 13: 9780792386087

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Sethi, Suresh Prakash, Thompson, Gerald L.

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Review

`Like the first edition, Sethi and Thompson's revised textbook advances the state of the art of operations research and management science on multiple dimensions. The authors provide a rigorous treatment of a powerful methodology. They demonstrate the deep managerial insights to be obtained in a variety of management and economics domains. The book facilitates learning in the classroom and encourages readers' creativity. The clarity in exposition makes the book accessible to diverse readers, including mathematicians interested in learning about applications and researchers in various application domains interested in developing new managerial results.
This is a very good textbook for subjects on optimal controls with management science applications. I have adopted this as a textbook and the students love it. Illustrative figures and diagrams are sufficiently provided, and materials are carefully explained. The use of the commonly available Excel program to solve TPBVPs at the end of chapter 2 is suitable for the ever increasing demand of "multimedia teaching". I have not seen any other optimal control textbook include such a set of Excel instructions in such a simple and elegant way. Moreover, the authors made a set of chapter-by-chapter Power Point files available on the web to supplement the textbook for classroom teaching. I'd give 5 stars to this book anytime.'
Joseph Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792386086
• ISBN 13: 9780792386087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 506