Optimal control of time delay parabolic systems (Q2767568)

There is a compilation of results published in two previous articles: Ref. 1. \textit{A. Kowalewski} and \textit{A. Krakowiak}, ``Time-optimal control of a parabolic system with multiple time-varying lags'' [in Appl. Math. Comp. Sci. 8, No. 3, 471-489 (1998; Zbl 0953.49027)] and Ref. 2. \textit{A. Kowalewski}, ``Optimization of parabolic systems with deviating arguments'' [in Int. J. Control 72, No. 11, 947-959 (1999; Zbl 0980.49005)]. In Ref. 1 one considers a parabolic system and boundary conditions with time-varying lags while in the present paper the lags are constant. Ref. 2 states results for a parabolic system and boundary conditions with deviating arguments in integral form, while in the present paper the integral is discretized , as in Ref. 1, just the lags are constant. The whole article could have been reduced to a single Remark: The results in Ref. 1, Chapter 2 and Ref. 2, Chapter 1-7 are valid for optimal control problems for linear parabolic systems with constant time lags.