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Operation at steady state is often not optimal when optimizing over an economic cost objective. In many cases, periodic operation yields better performance. Therefore, we derive asymptotic stability guarantees of an economic model…

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In this paper, we analyse control affine optimal control problems with a cost functional involving the absolute value of the control. The Pontryagin extremals associated with such systems are given by (possible) concatenations of bang arcs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Francesca Chittaro , Laura Poggiolini

A variant of self-similar approximation theory is suggested, permitting an easy and accurate summation of divergent series consisting of only a few terms. The method is based on a power-law algebraic transformation, whose powers play the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. I. Yukalov , S. Gluzman

We consider optimal control problems for diffusion processes, where the objective functional is defined by a time-consistent dynamic risk measure. We focus on coherent risk measures defined by $g$-evaluations. For such problems, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Andrzej Ruszczynski , Jianing Yao

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of infinite horizon optimal control problems subject to semilinear parabolic equations with constraints on the controls and discounted cost functionals. The discount factors on the cost and the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Eduardo Casas , Karl Kunisch

Inverse optimization (Inverse optimal control) is the task of imputing a cost function such that given test points (trajectories) are (nearly) optimal with respect to the discovered cost. Prior methods in inverse optimization assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Filip Bečanović , Jared Miller , Vincent Bonnet , Kosta Jovanović , Samer Mohammed

We consider the problem of finite-horizon optimal control design under uncertainty for imperfectly observed discrete-time systems with convex costs and constraints. It is known that this problem can be cast as an infinite-dimensional convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Kevin J. Kircher , K. Max Zhang

We derive scaling limits for integral functionals of It\^o processes with fast nonlinear mean-reversion speed. We show that in these limits, the fast mean-reverting process is "averaged out" by integrating against its invariant measure.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Thomas Cayé , Martin Herdegen , Johannes Muhle-Karbe

In this paper, we study asymptotic properties of problems of control of stochastic discrete time systems (also known as Markov decision processes) with time averaging and time discounting optimality criteria, and we establish that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Vladimir Gaitsgory , Lucas Gamertsfelder

Relying on the careful study of a related problem in the calculus of variations, we study a class of optimal control problems in which the control lies on the acceleration, with state constraints on the position variable. In dimension one,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yves Achdou

This paper investigates the convergence properties of sample-average approximations (SAA) for set-valued systemic risk measures. We assume that the systemic risk measure is defined using a general aggregation function with some continuity…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-08-19 Wissam AlAli , Çağın Ararat

The problem of finding an optimum using noisy evaluations of a smooth cost function arises in many contexts, including economics, business, medicine, experiment design, and foraging theory. We derive an asymptotic bound E[ (x_t - x*)^2 ] >=…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Barak A. Pearlmutter

The goal of this work is to obtain optimal rates for the convergence problem in mean field control. Our analysis covers cases where the solutions to the limiting problem may not be unique nor stable. Equivalently the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin , François Delarue , Joe Jackson

In this paper, we consider the infinite horizon optimal control problem for nonlinear systems. Under the conditions of controllability of the linearized system around the origin, and nonlinear controllability of the system to a terminal set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

It is shown that the axioms for coherent risk measures imply that whenever there is an asset in a portfolio that dominates the others in a given sample (which happens with finite probability even for large samples), then this portfolio…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-09-29 Imre Kondor , Istvan Varga-Haszonits

Control systems involving unknown parameters appear a natural framework for applications in which the model design has to take into account various uncertainties. In these circumstances the performance criterion can be given in terms of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Piernicola Bettiol , Nathalie Khalil

We introduce a notion of integration defined from filters over families of finite sets. This procedure corresponds to determining the average value of functions whose range lies in any algebraic structure in which finite averages make…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Emanuele Bottazzi , Monroe Eskew

In an optimal control framework, we consider the value $V_T(x)$ of the problem starting from state $x$ with finite horizon $T$, as well as the value $V_\lambda(x)$ of the $\lambda$-discounted problem starting from $x$. We prove that uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Miquel Oliu-Barton , Guillaume Vigeral

In this paper we shall consider some famous means such as arithmetic, harmonic, geometric, root square mean, etc. Considering the difference of these means, we can establish. some inequalities among them. Interestingly, the difference of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Inder Jeet Taneja

We revisit the optimal control problem with maximum cost with the objective to provide different equivalent reformulations suitable to numerical methods. We propose two reformulations in terms of extended Mayer problems with constraint, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Emilio Molina , Alain Rapaport , Hector Ramirez