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We study a simple singular control problem for a Brownian motion with constant drift and variance reflected at the origin. Exerting control pushes the process towards the origin and generates a concave increasing state-dependent yield which…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Adam Jonsson

Optimal stopping is the problem of deciding when to stop a stochastic system to obtain the greatest reward, arising in numerous application areas such as finance, healthcare and marketing. State-of-the-art methods for high-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Dragos Florin Ciocan , Velibor V. Mišić

We propose a model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic status of the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Two different types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Masoud Nematollahi

We study a classical Bayesian statistics problem of sequentially testing the sign of the drift of an arithmetic Brownian motion with the $0$-$1$ loss function and a constant cost of observation per unit of time for general prior…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Erik Ekström , Juozas Vaicenavicius

The aim of this paper is to study the continuity correction for barrier options in jump-diusion models. For this purpose, we express the pay-off a barrier option in terms of the maximum of the underlying process. We then condition with…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-14 El Hadj Aly Dia , Damien Lamberton

We study some optimal control problems on networks with junctions, approximate the junctions by a switching rule of delay-relay type and study the passage to the limit when $\varepsilon$, the parameter of the approximation, goes to zero.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro

Bayesian optimization has been proposed as a practical and efficient tool through which to tune parameters in many difficult settings. Recently, such techniques have been combined with real-time fMRI to propose a novel framework which turns…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-10 Romy Lorenz , Ricardo P Monti , Ines R Violante , Aldo A Faisal , Christoforos Anagnostopoulos , Robert Leech , Giovanni Montana

We develop a theory of optimal stopping problems under G-expectation framework. We first define a new kind of random times, called G-stopping times, which is suitable for this problem. For the discrete time case with finite horizon, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Hanwu Li

This paper proposes a simplified version of classical models for urban transportation networks, and studies the problem of controlling intersections with the goal of optimizing network-wide congestion. Differently from traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Gianluca Bianchin , Fabio Pasqualetti

We consider the problem of optimally stopping a general one-dimensional stochastic differential equation (SDE) with generalised drift over an infinite time horizon. First, we derive a complete characterisation of the solution to this…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Mihail Zervos , Neofytos Rodosthenous , Pui Chan Lon , Thomas Bernhardt

We propose and test a method to interpolate sparsely sampled signals by a stochastic process with a broad range of spatial and/or temporal scales. To this end, we extend the notion of a fractional Brownian bridge, defined as fractional…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-05 J. Friedrich , S. Gallon , A. Pumir , R. Grauer

We consider $N$ non-intersecting Brownian bridges conditioned to stay below a fixed threshold. We consider a scaling limit where the limit shape is tangential to the threshold. In the large $N$ limit, we determine the limiting distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Patrik L. Ferrari , Bálint Vető

In this short note we will provide a sufficient and necessary condition to have uniqueness of the location of the maximum of a stochastic process over an interval. The result will also express the mean value of the location in terms of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Leandro P. R. Pimentel

We consider a stochastic control model driven by a fractional Brownian motion. This model is a formal approximation to a queueing network with an on-off input process. We study stochastic control problems associated with the long-run…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-12 Arka P. Ghosh , Alexander Roitershtein , Ananda Weerasinghe

We consider a Schr\"odinger bridge problem where the Markov process is subject to parameter perturbations, forming an ensemble of systems. Our objective is to steer this ensemble from the initial distribution to the final distribution using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Daniel Owusu Adu , Yongxin Chen

The odds theorem and the corresponding solution algorithm (odds algorithm) are tools to solve a wide range of optimal stopping problems. Its generality and tractability have caught much attention. (Google for instance "Bruss odds" to obtain…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Rémi Dendievel

We present a methodology for obtaining explicit solutions to infinite time horizon optimal stopping problems involving general, one-dimensional, It\^o diffusions, payoff functions that need not be smooth and state-dependent discounting.…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-10-10 Timothy C. Johnson

We analyze the consumption-portfolio selection problem of an investor facing both Brownian and jump risks. We bring new tools, in the form of orthogonal decompositions, to bear on the problem in order to determine the optimal portfolio in…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Yacine Aït-Sahalia , Julio Cacho-Diaz , T. R. Hurd

We consider a new type of optimal stopping problems where the absorbing boundary moves as the state process X attains new maxima S. More specifically, we set the absorbing boundary as S-b where b is a certain constant. This problem is…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Masahiko Egami , Tadao Oryu

In an earlier paper (https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1393315), the Switch Point Algorithm was developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are either singular or bang-bang or both singular and bang-bang, and which possess a…

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