Overview This paper investigates how managers develop and implement complex control systems. Within, I present several hypotheses which integrate and extend current independent conceptualizations of organizational control. I use a simulation-based model to test several control-related hypotheses. Results of this study provide support for the newly emerging " broader " perspective on organizatio...

We consider in this paper, mixed relaxed-singular stochastic control problems, where the control variable has two components, the first being measure-valued and the second singular. The control domain is not necessarily convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear stochastic differential equation, in which the measure-valued part of the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coeffi...

An experimental design is said to be c-optimal if it minimizes the variance of the best linear unbiased estimator of cTβ , where c is a given vector of coefficients, and β is an unknown vector parameter of the model in consideration. For a linear regression model with uncorrelated observations and a finite experimental domain, the problem of approximate c-optimality is equivalent to a specific ...

homogenous charge compression ignition (hcci) engines hold promise of high fuel efficiency and low emission levels for future green vehicles. but in contrast to gasoline and diesel engines, hcci engines suffer from lack of having direct means to initiate combustion. a combustion timing controller with robust tracking performance is the key requirement to leverage hcci application in production ...