Modelling and Optimal Scheduling of Inland Waterway Transport Systems: A Switching Max-Plus-Linear Systems Approach

Inland waterways form a natural network infrastructure with the capacity for waterborne transport of people and goods for moving freight from seaports to the hinterland. Recently, Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) has been promoted more extensively by the European Union and various governments as it plays a crucial role in reducing road congestion...

The Dynamical Behaviour and Control of an Enterprise: Firm and Consumer as the System, Management as the Controller

This thesis develops a method to forecast the cash flows that determine the value of an enterprise. From a control engineers perspective, three stages arise to develop such a method: the research, the system and the control part. The research part presents the results of a control theoretic analysis of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) valuation...