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In this paper, we investigate dynamic optimization problems featuring both stochastic control and optimal stopping in a finite time horizon. The paper aims to develop new methodologies, which are significantly different from those of mixed…

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We study a stochastic control problem with regime switching arising in an optimal liquidation problem with dark pools and multiple regimes. The new feature of this model is that it introduces a system of BSDEs with jumps and with singular…

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This paper is concerned with optimal control of systems driven by G-stochastic differential equations (G-SDEs), with controlled jump term. We study the relaxed problem, in which admissible controls are measurevalued processes and the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Hanane Ben Gherbal , Amel Redjil , Omar Kebiri

In this paper, we investigate the optimal output tracking problem for linear discrete-time systems with unknown dynamics using reinforcement learning and robust output regulation theory. This output tracking problem only allows to utilize…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Ci Chen , Lihua Xie , Yi Jiang , Kan Xie , Shengli Xie

We consider optimal stopping problems, in which a sequence of independent random variables is drawn from a known continuous density. The objective of such problems is to find a procedure which maximizes the expected reward; this is often…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Hugh Entwistle , Christopher Lustri , Georgy Sofronov

We obtain existence and uniqueness in L^p, p>1 of the solutions of a backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs for short) driven by a marked point process, on a bounded interval. We show that the solution of the BSDE can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-04 Fulvia Confortola

We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for time-changed L\'evy noises when the time-change is independent of the L\'evy process. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we obtain an explicit formula for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Giulia Di Nunno , Steffen Sjursen

This paper is concerned with a general non-homogeneous stochastic linear quadratic (LQ) control problem with regime switching and random coefficients. We obtain the explicit optimal state feedback control and optimal value for this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

This paper studies stochastic control problems motivated by optimal consumption with wealth benchmark tracking. The benchmark process is modeled by a combination of a geometric Brownian motion and a running maximum process, indicating its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Lijun Bo , Yijie Huang , Xiang Yu

This paper establishes characterization results for dynamic return and star-shaped risk measures induced via backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). We first characterize a general family of static star-shaped functionals in a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-20 Roger J. A. Laeven , Emanuela Rosazza Gianin , Marco Zullino

We study a robust optimal stopping problem with respect to a set $\cP$ of mutually singular probabilities. This can be interpreted as a zero-sum controller-stopper game in which the stopper is trying to maximize its pay-off while an adverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Erhan Bayraktar , Song Yao

In this paper, we study an optimal stopping problem in the presence of model uncertainty and regime switching. The max-min formulation for robust control and the dynamic programming approach are adopted to establish a general theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Siyu Lv , Zhen Wu , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

In this paper, we study optimal switching problems under ambiguity. To characterize the optimal switching under ambiguity in the finite horizon, we use multidimensional reflected backward stochastic differential equations (multidimensional…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-23 Yuki Shigeta

We propose and analyze a continuous-time robust reinforcement learning framework for optimal stopping under ambiguity. In this framework, an agent chooses a robust exploratory stopping time motivated by two objectives: robust…

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In this paper we consider discrete and continuous time risk sensitive optimal stopping problem. Using suitable properties of the underlying Feller-Markov process we prove continuity of the optimal stopping value function and provide formula…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Damian Jelito , Marcin Pitera , Łukasz Stettner

This paper proposes a backstepping boundary control design for robust stabilization of linear first-order coupled hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with Markov-jumping parameters. The PDE system consists of 4 X 4 coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Yihuai Zhang , Jean Auriol , Huan Yu

In this paper we consider the maximum principle of optimal control for a stochastic control problem. This problem is governed by a system of fully coupled multi-dimensional forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-07 AbdulRahman Al-Hussein , Boulakhras Gherbal

In this paper we introduce and solve a class of optimal stopping problems of recursive type. In particular, the stopping payoff depends directly on the value function of the problem itself. In a multi-dimensional Markovian setting we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Katia Colaneri , Tiziano De Angelis

We solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller