Suzanne Lenhart, John T. Workman

". . . the present book has the merit of collecting and treating in a unitary and accessible manner a large number of relevant problems in mathematical biology; the text is well written, systematically presented, accurate most of the time and accessible to a fairly large audience; it could do a great service to the community of researchers in mathematical control theory . . ." – Stefan Mirică, in Mathematical Reviews, 2008f

• Basic Optimal Control Problems. Existence and Other Solution Properties. State Conditions at the Final Time. Forward-Backward Sweep Method. Lab 1: Introductory Example. Lab 2: Mold and Fungicide. Lab 3: Bacteria. Bounded Controls. Lab 4: Bounded Case. Lab 5: Cancer. Lab 6: Fish Harvesting. Optimal Control of Several Variables. Lab 7: Epidemic Model. Lab 8: HIV Treatment. Lab 9: Bear Populations. Lab 10: Glucose Model. Linear Dependence on the Control. Lab 11: Timber Harvesting. Lab 12: Bioreactor. Free Terminal Time Problems. Adapted Forward-Backward Sweep. Lab 13: Predator-Prey Model. Discrete Time Models. Lab 14: Invasive Plant Species. Partial Differential Equation Models. Other Approaches and Extensions. References. Index.

Suzanne Lenhart, John T. Workman

". . . the present book has the merit of collecting and treating in a unitary and accessible manner a large number of relevant problems in mathematical biology; the text is well written, systematically presented, accurate most of the time and accessible to a fairly large audience; it could do a great service to the community of researchers in mathematical control theory . . ." – Stefan Mirică, in Mathematical Reviews, 2008f

• Basic Optimal Control Problems. Existence and Other Solution Properties. State Conditions at the Final Time. Forward-Backward Sweep Method. Lab 1: Introductory Example. Lab 2: Mold and Fungicide. Lab 3: Bacteria. Bounded Controls. Lab 4: Bounded Case. Lab 5: Cancer. Lab 6: Fish Harvesting. Optimal Control of Several Variables. Lab 7: Epidemic Model. Lab 8: HIV Treatment. Lab 9: Bear Populations. Lab 10: Glucose Model. Linear Dependence on the Control. Lab 11: Timber Harvesting. Lab 12: Bioreactor. Free Terminal Time Problems. Adapted Forward-Backward Sweep. Lab 13: Predator-Prey Model. Discrete Time Models. Lab 14: Invasive Plant Species. Partial Differential Equation Models. Other Approaches and Extensions. References. Index.

Suzanne Lenhart, John T. Workman

". . . the present book has the merit of collecting and treating in a unitary and accessible manner a large number of relevant problems in mathematical biology; the text is well written, systematically presented, accurate most of the time and accessible to a fairly large audience; it could do a great service to the community of researchers in mathematical control theory . . ." – Stefan Mirică, in Mathematical Reviews, 2008f

• Basic Optimal Control Problems. Existence and Other Solution Properties. State Conditions at the Final Time. Forward-Backward Sweep Method. Lab 1: Introductory Example. Lab 2: Mold and Fungicide. Lab 3: Bacteria. Bounded Controls. Lab 4: Bounded Case. Lab 5: Cancer. Lab 6: Fish Harvesting. Optimal Control of Several Variables. Lab 7: Epidemic Model. Lab 8: HIV Treatment. Lab 9: Bear Populations. Lab 10: Glucose Model. Linear Dependence on the Control. Lab 11: Timber Harvesting. Lab 12: Bioreactor. Free Terminal Time Problems. Adapted Forward-Backward Sweep. Lab 13: Predator-Prey Model. Discrete Time Models. Lab 14: Invasive Plant Species. Partial Differential Equation Models. Other Approaches and Extensions. References. Index.