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In this paper, we address the Continuous Multifacility Monotone Ordered Median Problem. This problem minimizes a monotone ordered weighted median function of the distances between given demand points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and its closest…

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We explore singular second-order boundary value problems with mixed boundary conditions on a general time scale. Using the lower and upper solutions method combined with the Brouwer fixed point theorem we demonstrate the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , Curtis J Kunkel

Many decision problems in economics, information technology, and industry can be transformed to an optimal stopping of adapted random vectors with some utility function over the set of Markov times with respect to filtration build by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Krzysztof Szajowski

Many sequential decision problems can be formulated as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) where the optimal value function (or cost-to-go function) can be shown to satisfy a monotone structure in some or all of its dimensions. When the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Daniel R. Jiang , Warren B. Powell

In this paper, we propose a high-order extension of the multiscale method introduced by the authors in [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 63(4) (2025), pp. 1617--1641] for heterogeneous Stokes problems, while also providing several other improvements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Moritz Hauck , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, we introduce two parabolic target-space interior-point algorithms for solving monotone linear complementarity problems. The first algorithm is based on a universal tangent direction, which has been recently proposed for…

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In this work, we propose multicontinuum splitting schemes for the wave equation with a high-contrast coefficient, extending our previous research on multiscale flow problems. The proposed approach consists of two main parts: decomposing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Mohsen Alshahrani , Buzheng Shan

In this paper, we consider lasso problems with zero-sum constraint, commonly required for the analysis of compositional data in high-dimensional spaces. A novel algorithm is proposed to solve these problems, combining a tailored active-set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Andrea Cristofari

We consider the non-linear optimal multiple stopping problem under general conditions on the non-linear evaluation operators, which might depend on two time indices: the time of evaluation/assessment and the horizon (when the reward or loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Miryana Grigorova , Marie-Claire Quenez , Peng Yuan

This paper presents two new approaches to decomposing and solving large Markov decision problems (MDPs), a partial decoupling method and a complete decoupling method. In these approaches, a large, stochastic decision problem is divided into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Ron Parr

We solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller

We consider the optimal stopping time problem under model uncertainty $R(v)= {\text{ess}\sup\limits}_{ \mathbb{P} \in \mathcal{P}} {\text{ess}\sup\limits}_{\tau \in \mathcal{S}_v} E^\mathbb{P}[Y(\tau) \vert \mathcal{F}_v]$, for every…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Ihsan Arharas , Siham Bouhadou , Astrid Hilbert , Youssef Ouknine

In this paper we propose on continuous level several domain decomposition methods to solve unilateral and ideal multibody contact problems of nonlinear elasticity. We also present theorems about convergence of these methods.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Ihor I. Prokopyshyn , Ivan I. Dyyak , Rostyslav M. Martynyak , Ivan A. Prokopyshyn

We present a temporal decomposition scheme for solving long-horizon optimal control problems. In the proposed scheme, the time domain is decomposed into a set of subdomains with partially overlapping regions. Subproblems associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Sungho Shin , Timm Faulwasser , Mario Zanon , Victor M. Zavala

For solving unsteady hyperbolic conservation laws on cut cell meshes, the so called small cell problem is a big issue: one would like to use a time step that is chosen with respect to the background mesh and use the same time step on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Florian Streitbürger , Christian Engwer , Sandra May , Andreas Nüßing

How do decisions change with the economic environment and with time? This paper studies general nonstationary stopping problems and provides the methodological tools to answer these questions. First, we identify conditions that ensure a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-08-01 Théo Durandard , Matteo Camboni

A class of finite-state and discrete-time optimal control problems is introduced. The problems involve a large number of agents with independent dynamics, which interact through an aggregative term in the cost function. The problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Kang Liu , Nadia Oudjane , Laurent Pfeiffer

In this article, we introduce and study three numerical methods for the Dirichlet Monge Amp\`ere equation in two dimensions. The approaches consist in considering new equivalent problems. The latter are discretized by a wide stencil finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Hajri Imen , Fethi Ben Belgacem

In this article we propose a descent method for equality and inequality constrained multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) which generalizes the steepest descent method for unconstrained MOPs by Fliege and Svaiter to constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz , Michael Dellnitz

In this paper, we study ordinary differential equations (ODE) coupled with solutions of a stochastic nonsmooth convex optimization problem (SNCOP). We use the regularization approach, the sample average approximation and the time-stepping…

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