English
Related papers

Related papers: Impulsive control for continuous-time Markov Decis…

200 papers

The present paper considers the constrained optimal control problem with total undiscounted criteria for a continuous-time Markov decision process (CTMDP) in Borel state and action spaces. Under the standard compactness and continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Xianping Guo , Yi Zhang

This work addresses stochastic optimal control problems where the unknown state evolves in continuous time while partial, noisy, and possibly controllable measurements are only available in discrete time. We develop a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Christian Bayer , Boualem Djehiche , Eliza Rezvanova , Raul Fidel Tempone

Among various rare events, the effective computation of transition paths connecting metastable states in a stochastic model is an important problem. This paper proposes a stochastic optimal control formulation for transition path problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu , Oliver Tse

We study risk-sensitive control of continuous time Markov chains taking values in discrete state space. We study both finite and infinite horizon problems. In the finite horizon problem we characterise the value function via HJB equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Mrinal K. Ghosh , Subhamay Saha

The paper proposes a new stochastic intervention control model conducted in various commodity and stock markets. The essence of the phenomenon of intervention is described in accordance with current economic theory. A review of papers on…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-11-28 Peter Shnurkov , Daniil Novikov

In this article, we consider the deterministic impulsively controlled system with infinite horizon and several discounted objective functionals. The constructed optimal control problem with functional constraints is reformulated as a Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 A. Piunovskiy

This paper deals with the unconstrained and constrained cases for continuous-time Markov decision processes under the finite-horizon expected total cost criterion. The state space is denumerable and the transition and cost rates are allowed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Qingda Wei , Xian Chen

In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wei Gong , Dongdong Liang

It is well known that stability is the most fundamental nature with regard to a control system, in view of this, the stabilization becomes an inevitable control problem. This article mainly discusses the optimal control and stabilization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Hongdan Li , Chunyan Han , Huanshui Zhang

We study optimal control of Markov processes with age-dependent transition rates. The control policy is chosen continuously over time based on the state of the process and its age. We study infinite horizon discounted cost and infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Mrinal K. Ghosh , Subhamay Saha

We study an optimal process control problem with multiple assignable causes. The process is initially in-control but is subject to random transition to one of multiple out-of-control states due to assignable causes. The objective is to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Jue Wang , Chi-Guhn Lee

In this paper, we focus on formal synthesis of control policies for finite Markov decision processes with non-negative real-valued costs. We develop an algorithm to automatically generate a policy that guarantees the satisfaction of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Maria Svorenova , Ivana Cerna , Calin Belta

In this paper long-run risk sensitive optimisation problem is studied with dyadic impulse control applied to continuous-time Feller-Markov process. In contrast to the existing literature, focus is put on unbounded and non-uniformly ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Marcin Pitera , Łukasz Stettner

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…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-27 Xiongfei Jian , Xun Li , Fahuai Yi

In this paper we consider stopping problems for continuous-time Markov chains under a general risk-sensitive optimization criterion for problems with finite and infinite time horizon. More precisely our aim is to maximize the certainty…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Nicole Bäuerle , Anton Popp

In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control of Markov Jump Linear Systems with state feedback but without observation of the jumping parameter. The proposed control law is assumed to be linear with constant gains that can be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Maxim Dolgov , Uwe D. Hanebeck

The main objective of this paper is the construction of the solution of an impulsive stochastic differential equation, subject to control conditions in the pulse-times and give sufficient conditions for them to be random variables with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Ricardo Castro Santis

The paper extends an impulsive control-theoretical framework towards dynamic systems in the space of measures. We consider a transport equation describing the time-evolution of a conservative "mass" (probability measure), which represents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

We consider the impulse control of Levy processes under the infinite horizon, discounted cost criterion. Our motivating example is the cash management problem in which a controller is charged a fixed plus proportional cost for adding to or…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Peter Lakner , Josh Reed

The main goal of this paper is to derive sufficient conditions for the existence of an optimal control strategy for the long run average continuous control problem of piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMP's) taking values in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-05 O. L. V. Costa , F. Dufour