In these pages I intend to illustrate the different components of the area management and decision sciences that I will be in charge of, as an area editor, for the coming years. To do so I will rely mostly on some research topics I know well for having contributed a little myself to their development. This area is very wide but I see several conducting lines through this variety of domains that are all related with the use of control and optimization paradigms both for modeling and computation/simulation purposes.