Optimal control theory is a technique being used increasingly by academic economists to study problems involving optimal decisions in a multi-period framework.

This book contains extended, in-depth presentations of the plenary talks from the 16th French-German-Polish Conference on Optimization, held in Kraków, Poland

A focused presentation of how sparse optimization methods can be used to solve optimal control and estimation problems.

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Upper-level undergraduate text introduces aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's minimum principle, and numerical techniques for t