Variational analysis in psychological modeling (Q2260666)

The authors show the need for new mathematical developments concerning variational principles and tools of variational analysis for valuable applications to some stability/stay and change dynamical models in behavioral sciences. They describe the essence of the ``variational rationality'' approach to such models. In the mathematical framework of this approach, they derive a new variational principle, which can be viewed as an extension of the Ekeland variational principle to the case of set-valued mappings on quasimetric spaces with cone-valued ordering variable structures.