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Aiming for more realistic optimal dividend policies, we consider a stochastic control problem with linearly bounded control rates using a performance function given by the expected present value of dividend payments made up to ruin. In a…

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We address the path-wise control of systems described by a set of nonlinear stochastic differential equations. For this class of systems, we introduce a notion of stochastic relative degree and a change of coordinates which transforms the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Alberto Mellone , Giordano Scarciotti

In this paper we consider the controllability of certain class of non-autonomous neutral evolution stochastic functional differential equations, with time varying delays, driven by a fractional Brownian motion in a separable real Hilbert…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-01 E. Lakhel

We study the problem of optimal control for mean-field stochastic partial differential equations (stochastic evolution equations) driven by a Brownian motion and an independent Poisson random measure, in the case of \textit{partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Roxana Dumitrescu , Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

We study the problem of pathwise stochastic optimal control, where the optimization is performed for each fixed realisation of the driving noise, by phrasing the problem in terms of the optimal control of rough differential equations. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Andrew L. Allan , Samuel N. Cohen

We study stochastic optimal control of rough stochastic differential equations (RSDEs). This is in the spirit of the pathwise control problem (Lions--Souganidis 1998, Buckdahn--Ma 2007; also Davis--Burstein 1992), with renewed interest and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Peter K. Friz , Khoa Lê , Huilin Zhang

We investigate propagation of convexity and convex ordering on a typical discrete-time stochastic optimal control problem, namely the pricing of swing option. The dynamics of the underlying asset is modelled by the Euler scheme of a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-05 Gilles Pagès , Christian Yeo

We obtain a maximum principle for stochastic control problem of general controlled stochastic differential systems driven by fractional Brownian motions (of Hurst parameter $H>1/2$). This maximum principle specifies a system of equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Yuecai Han , Yaozhong Hu , Jian Song

In this paper, we establish the strong well-posedness of SDEs with merely integrable time-dependent drifts driven by fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter H<1/2. Our result holds over the entire subcritical regime and can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Jiazhen Gu , Qian Yu

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic optimal control problem with jumps under partial information. More precisely, the controlled systems are described by a fully coupled nonlinear multi- dimensional forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Qingxin Meng

We present a novel control variate technique for enhancing the efficiency of Monte Carlo (MC) estimation of expectations involving solutions to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Our method integrates a primary fine-time-step…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Josselin Garnier , Laurent Mertz

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu

We study a stochastic control system involving both a standard and a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter less than 1/2. We apply an anticipative Girsanov transformation to transform the system into another one, driven only by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Rainer Buckdahn , Shuai Jing

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problem for systems driven by mixed fractional Brownian motion (including a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$ and the standard Brownian motion). By using Malliavin…

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In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov stochastic partial differential equations, in which the coefficients depend on the law of the state process. For systems with nonconvex control sets, we establish a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Liangying Chen , Wilhelm Stannat

Motivated by applications in queueing theory, we consider a class of singular stochastic control problems whose state space is the d-dimensional positive orthant. The original problem is approximated by a drift control problem, to which we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Baris Ata , J. Michael Harrison , Nian Si

Many natural systems exhibit phase transition where external environmental conditions spark a shift to a new and sometimes quite different state. Therefore, detecting the behavior of a stochastic dynamic system such as the most probable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Jianyu Chen , Ting Gao , Yang Li , Jinqiao Duan

In this paper, we present a Longstaff-Schwartz-type algorithm for optimal stopping time problems based on the Brownian motion filtration. The algorithm is based on Le\~ao, Ohashi and Russo and, in contrast to previous works, our methodology…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-05 Sérgio C. Bezerra , Alberto Ohashi , Francesco Russo , Francys de Souza

This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas , Petr Veverka

We study the convergence of an $N$-particle Markovian controlled system to the solution of a family of stochastic McKean-Vlasov control problems, either with a finite horizon or Schr\"odinger type cost functional. Specifically, under…

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