Optimal Control and Dynamic Games

Prof. Christophe Deissenberg GREQAM, UMR CNRS 6579 Universite de la Mediterranee Chateau La Farge Route des Milles 13290 Les Milles France Specialisted in economic dynamics, computational economics, decision-making, economic complexity, environmental economics Prof. Richard Hartl Chair of Production and Operations Management BWZ, Institute of Management University of Vienna Bruennerstrasse 72 A-1210 Vienna Austria Specialized in quantitative methods in production and operations management, dynamics of the firm, optimal control, operations research (OR) methods and applications

• Applications to Marketing.- Advertising Directed Towards Existing and New Customers.- Advertising and Advertising Claims Over Time.- Environmental Applications.- Capital Resource Substitution, Overshooting, and Sustainable Development.- Hierarchical and Asymptotic Optimal Control Models for Economic Sustainable Development.- Common Property Resource and Private Capital Accumulation with Random Jump.- Transfer Mechanisms Inducing a Sustainable Forest Exploitation.- Characterizing Dynamic Irrigation Policies Via Green’s Theorem.- Applications in Economics and Finance.- Volatility Forecasts and the Profitability of Automated Trading Strategies.- Two-Part Tariff Pricing in a Dynamic Environment.- Numerical Solutions to Lump-Sum Pension Fund Problems That Can Yield Left-Skewed Fund Return Distributions.- Differentiated Capital and the Distribution of Wealth.- Optimal Firm Contributions to Open Source Software.- Production, Maintenance and Transportation.- The Impact of Dynamic Demand and Dynamic Net Revenues on Firm Clockspeed.- Hibernation Durations for Chain of Machines with Maintenance under Uncertainty.- Self-Organized Control of Irregular or Perturbed Network Traffic.- A Stochastic Optimal Control Policy for A Manufacturing System on A Finite Time Horizon.- On A State-Constrained Control Problem in Optimal Production and Maintenance.- Methodological Advances.- Reliability Index.- The Direct Method for A Class of Infinite Horizon Dynamic Games.