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This paper develops a comprehensive framework for optimal control of systems governed by fractional backward stochastic evolution equations (FBSEEs) in Hilbert spaces. We first establish a stochastic maximum principle (SMP) as a necessary…

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We analyze the problem of stochastic optimal control of SDEs where the driver includes a self-exciting stochastic process. Due to the non-Markovian nature of the problem, we apply the stochastic maximum principle approach. We derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Heidar Eyjolfsson , Kristina Rognlien Dahl

We study a coupled system of controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by a Brownian motion and a compensated Poisson random measure, consisting of a forward SDE in the unknown process $X(t)$ and a \emph{predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

In this paper, we consider optimal control of stochastic differential equations subject to an expected path constraint. The stochastic maximum principle is given for a general optimal stochastic control in terms of constrained FBSDEs. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang , Zuo Quan Xu

This paper investigates a multidimensional non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem featuring random coefficients and a terminal mean-field term in the cost functional, enabling its direct application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

We study optimal stochastic control problems of general coupled systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps. By means of the It\^o-Ventzell formula the system is transformed to a controlled backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem , Tusheng Zhang

This paper is concerned with the maximum principle of stochastic optimal control problems, where the coefficients of the state equation and the cost functional are uncertain, and the system is generally under Markovian regime switching.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

In this paper, we study the maximum principle for stochastic optimal control problems of forward-backward stochastic difference systems (FBS{\Delta}Ss) where the uncertainty is modeled by a discrete time, finite state process, rather than…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Shailin Ji , Haodong Liu

We consider an Ito stochastic differential equation with delay, driven by brownian motion, whose solution, by an appropriate reformulation, defines a Markov process $X$ with values in a space of continuous functions $\mathbf C$, with…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Marco Fuhrman , Federica Masiero , Gianmario Tessitore

The aim of this paper is to derive a maximum principle for a control problem governed by a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with locally monotone coefficients. In particular, necessary conditions for optimality for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Edson Alberto Coayla-Teran

We shall consider a stochastic maximum principle of optimal control for a control problem associated with a stochastic partial differential equations of the following type: d x(t) = (A(t) x(t) + a (t, u(t)) x(t) + b(t, u(t)) dt +…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-20 AbdulRahman Al-Hussein

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu

This paper investigates optimal control problems for delayed systems governed by Infinitely Anticipated Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (IABSDEs). Unlike existing frameworks limited to bounded delays, we introduce a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Guanwei Cheng

We consider a stochastic control problem, where the control domain is convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. With a L1 terminal data, we derive necessary optimality conditions in the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-07-23 Seid Bahlali

In this paper we consider a class of BSDEs with drivers of quadratic growth, on a stochastic basis generated by continuous local martingales. We first derive the Markov property of a forward--backward system (FBSDE) if the generating…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Peter Imkeller , Anthony Réveillac , Anja Richter

The paper concerns the necessary maximum principle for robust optimal control problems of quadratic BSDEs. The coefficient of the systems depends on the parameter $\theta$, and the generator of BSDEs is of quadratic growth in $z$. Since the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Qi Zhang

The maximum principle for optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations (FBDSDEs in short) in the global form is obtained, under the assumptions that the diffusion coefficients do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-28 Liangquan Zhang , Yufeng Shi

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rainer Buckdahn , Boubakeur Labed , Catherine Rainer , Lazhar Tamer

In this paper, we consider a stochastic decision problem for a system governed by a stochastic differential equation, in which an optimal decision is made in such a way to minimize a vector-valued accumulated cost over a finite-time horizon…

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