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In this paper, we aim to develop the theory of optimal stochastic control for branching diffusion processes where both the movement and the reproduction of the particles depend on the control. More precisely, we study the problem of…

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In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problems under model risk caused by uncertain volatilities. To have a mathematical consistent framework we use the notion of G-expectation and its corresponding G-Brwonian motion…

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In this paper, we consider a stochastic recursive optimal control problem under model uncertainty. In this framework, the cost function is described by solutions of a family of backward stochastic differential equations. With the help of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Mingshang Hu , Falei Wang

This paper is devoted to studying an infinite time horizon stochastic recursive control problem with jumps, where infinite time horizon stochastic differential equation and backward stochastic differential equation with jumps describe the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Sheng Luo , Xun Li , Qingmeng Wei

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

A large number of recent studies consider a compartmental SIR model to study optimal control policies aimed at containing the diffusion of COVID-19 while minimizing the economic costs of preventive measures. Such problems are non-convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Alessandro Calvia , Fausto Gozzi , Francesco Lippi , Giovanni Zanco

We study optimal control problems governed by abstract infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations using the dynamic programming approach. In the first part, we prove Lipschitz continuity, semiconcavity and semiconvexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Filippo de Feo , Andrzej Święch , Lukas Wessels

This paper is concerned with the relationship between general maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem with jumps, where the control domain is not necessarily convex. Relations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Bin Wang , Jingtao Shi

In this manuscript we consider a class optimal control problem for stochastic differential delay equations. First, we rewrite the problem in a suitable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Then, using the dynamic programming approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Filippo de Feo , Salvatore Federico , Andrzej Święch

In this paper we investigate a path dependent optimal control problem on the process space with both drift and volatility controls, with possibly degenerate volatility. The dynamic value function is characterized by a fully nonlinear second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jianjun Zhou , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

This paper build on our recent work where we presented a dual stochastic optimal control formulation of the nonlinear filtering problem [1]. The constraint for the dual problem is a backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Jin Won Kim , Prashant G. Mehta

In this paper we study strongly robust optimal control problems under volatility uncertainty. In the $G$-framework we adapt the stochastic maximum principle to find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a strongly robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Francesca Biagini , Thilo Meyer-Brandis , Bernt Øksendal , Krzysztof Paczka

In the Dynamic Programming approach to optimal control problems a crucial role is played by the value function that is characterized as the unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. It is well known that this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Luca Saluzzi , Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone

This paper studies an optimal stochastic impulse control problem in a finite horizon with a decision lag, by which we mean that after an impulse is made, a fixed number units of time has to be elapsed before the next impulse is allowed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Chang Li , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper we present a dynamic programing approach to stochastic optimal control problems with dynamic, time-consistent risk constraints. Constrained stochastic optimal control problems, which naturally arise when one has to consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

A general continuous mean-variance problem is considered for a diffusion controlled process where the reward functional has an integral and a terminal-time component. The problem is transformed into a superposition of a static and a dynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Georgios Aivaliotis , Alexander Yu. Veretennikov

In this manuscript we consider optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations with delays in the state and in the control. First, we prove an equivalent Markovian reformulation on Hilbert spaces of the state equation. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Filippo de Feo

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for the optimal stochastic control problem of stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The notion of viscosity solution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Jinniao Qiu

Optimal control problems driven by evolutionary partial differential equations arise in many industrial applications and their numerical solution is known to be a challenging problem. One approach to obtain an optimal feedback control is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Gerhard Kirsten , Luca Saluzzi

This research considers the ranking and selection with input uncertainty. The objective is to maximize the posterior probability of correctly selecting the best alternative under a fixed simulation budget, where each alternative is measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Hui Xiao , Zhihong Wei