English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimal control of branching diffusion processes: …

200 papers

We consider impulse control problems in finite horizon for diffusions with decision lag and execution delay. The new feature is that our general framework deals with the important case when several consecutive orders may be decided before…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Bruder , Huyen Pham

Devising optimal interventions for diffusive systems often requires the solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, a nonlinear backward partial differential equation (PDE), that is, in general, nontrivial to solve. Existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-18 Dimitra Maoutsa , Manfred Opper

This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Chenhui Hao , Jingtao Shi , Shuaiqi Zhang

We introduce a new numerical method to approximate the solution of a finite horizon deterministic optimal control problem. We exploit two Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE, arising by considering the dynamics in forward and backward time. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Shanqing Liu

In this paper we make a survey on the so called randomization method, a recent methodology to study stochastic optimization problems. It allows to represent the value function of an optimal control problem by a suitable backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Marco Fuhrman

We present a theory of optimal control for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations with infinite time horizon and discounted gain functional. We first establish the well-posedness of the state equation and of the associated control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Silvia Rudà

In this paper we study an optimization problem in which the control is information, more precisely, the control is a $\sigma$-algebra or a filtration. In a dynamic setting, we establish the dynamic programming principle and the law…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Zihao Gu , Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper, we adapt stochastic Perron's method to analyze a stochastic target problem with unbounded controls in a jump diffusion set-up. With this method, we construct a viscosity sub-solution and super-solution to the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiaqi Li

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a finite horizon discrete-time stochastic optimal control problem, in presence of constraints. We study the regularity of the value function which comes from the dynamic programming algorithm. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Papi , S. Sbaraglia

This paper mainly investigates reflected stochastic recursive control problems governed by jump-diffusion dynamics. The system's state evolution is described by a stochastic differential equation driven by both Brownian motion and Poisson…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Lu Liu , Qingmeng Wei

We study the optimal dividend problem for a firm's manager who has partial information on the profitability of the firm. The problem is formulated as one of singular stochastic control with partial information on the drift of the underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tiziano De Angelis

We consider a singular stochastic control problem, which is called the Monotone Follower Stochastic Control Problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a local-time type optimal control. To establish this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

We study an optimal control problem in which both the objective function and the dynamic constraint contain an uncertain parameter. Since the distribution of this uncertain parameter is not exactly known, the objective function is taken as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jianxiong Ye , Lei Wang , Changzhi Wu , Jie Sun , Kok Lay Teo , Xiangyu Wang

The numerical realization of the dynamic programming principle for continuous-time optimal control leads to nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations which require the minimization of a nonlinear mapping over the set of admissible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Dante Kalise , Axel Kröner , Karl Kunisch

The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation (HJB) associated with the time inhomogeneous singular control problem is a parabolic partial differential equation, and the existence of a classical solution is usually difficult to prove. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Yipeng Yang

We present a novel particle filtering framework for continuous-time dynamical systems with continuous-time measurements. Our approach is based on the duality between estimation and optimal control, which allows reformulating the estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Qinsheng Zhang , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Michael Röckner

We consider a stochastic impulse control problem that is motivated by applications such as the optimal exploitation of a natural resource. In particular, we consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Zhesheng Liu , Mihail Zervos

This paper proposes a new framework to model control systems in which a dynamic friction occurs. The model consists in a controlled differential inclusion with a discontinuous right hand side, which still preserves existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Fabio Tedone , Michele Palladino

This paper is concerned with the stochastic recursive optimal control problem with mixed delay. The connection between Pontryagin's maximum principle and Bellman's dynamic programming principle is discussed. Without containing any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi