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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF2306</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1991-2306</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Three-level Stackelberg strategies in linear-quadratic singular systems</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Liu</surname><given-names>Xiaoping</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Zhang</surname><given-names>Siying</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1991</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>414</fpage><lpage>433</lpage><abstract><p>In this paper open-loop three-level Stackelberg strategies in deterministic, sequential decision-making problems for linear continuous-time singular systems and quadratic cost function are studied. Necessary conditions under which the existence of open-loop Stackelberg strategies are derived. The analytical solution of three-level open-loop Stackelberg problem is given by means of the eigenvector method. An example is given to illustrate the proposed method.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>Singular systems</kwd><kwd>Stackelberg strategy</kwd><kwd>decision-making problems</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>