  In this paper, we study a class of finite-time control problems for
discrete-time positive linear systems with time-varying state parameters.
Although several interesting control problems appearing in population biology,
economics, and network epidemiology can be described as the class of
finite-time control problems, an efficient solution to the control problem has
not been yet found in the literature. In this paper, we propose an optimization
framework for solving the class of finite-time control problems via convex
optimization. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by
numerical simulation in the context of dynamical product development processes.
