  A review on the application of Melnikov's method to control homoclinic and
heteroclinic chaos in low-dimensional, non-autonomous and dissipative,
oscillator systems by weak harmonic excitations is presented, including diverse
applications such as chaotic escape from a potential well, chaotic solitons in
Frenkel-Kontorova chains, and chaotic charged particles in the field of an
electrostatic wave packet.
