Applications of Control Theory in Ecology: Proceedings of the Symposium on Optimal Control Theory held at the State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, August 10-16, 1986

Control theory can be roughly classified as deterministic or shastic. Each of these can further be subdivided into game theory and optimal control theory. The central problem of control theory is the so called constrained maximization (which-­ with slight modifications—is equivalent to minimization). One can then say, heuristically, that the major problem of control theory is to find the maximum of some performance criterion (or criteria), given a set of constraints. The starting point is, ...