Approximation and Optimization of Discrete and Differential Inclusions

Elsevier Insights provides high quality specialized content across a range of disciplines including life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, computing, and finance. Through fast-track publication, Elsevier Insights offers the reader cutting-edge information, available in eBook or print format. Book jacket. Optimal control theory has numerous applications in both science and engineering. This book presents basic concepts and principles of mathematical programming in terms of set-valued analysis and develops a comprehensive optimality theory of problems described by ordinary and partial differential inclusions. In addition to including well recognized results of variational analysis and optimization, the book includes a number of new and important ones Includes practical examples.