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1. the improvement of a idea of optimum keep watch over (deterministic) calls for the subsequent preliminary information: (i) a keep watch over u belonging to a couple set ilIi advert (the set of 'admissible controls') that is at our disposition, (ii) for a given regulate u, the nation y(u) of the procedure that's to be managed is given by means of the answer of an equation (*) Ay(u)=given functionality ofu the place A is an operator (assumed recognized) which specifies the approach to be managed (A is the 'model' of the system), (iii) the statement z(u) that's a functionality of y(u) (assumed to be identified precisely; we give some thought to purely deterministic difficulties during this book), (iv) the "cost functionality" J(u) ("economic function") that's outlined by way of a numerical functionality z-+
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