Professor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.

Vladimir Burkov (authors’ team leader), was in the 1960´s the father of an academic school of control in organizations, which applied game-theoretic models to problems of business administration. All authors (except V. Kondrat’ev) hold full-time appointment in the Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, the leading academic center of Russian control theory and have published dozens of books and hundreds of papers on different aspects of control theory, management and business administration. In addition to having vast experience in research and in teaching management theory, operations research, game theory in leading Russian universities the book authors have provided management consulting on actual business problems.