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In this paper, we study a class of fractional optimal control problems. A necessary condition for the existence of an optimal control is provided in the literature. It is commonly given as the existence of a solution of a fractional…
We consider semilinear parabolic optimal control problems subject to Neumann boundary conditions, control constraints, and an infinite time horizon. The control constraints are pointwise in time, but they can be pointwise or integral in the…
In this paper, we consider the optimal control problem for a class of evolution inclusions with Volterra type operators, which can be history-dependent. We establish the existence of a solution to the stated optimal control problem under…
In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn equations with singular nonlinearities and a dynamic boundary condition involving singular nonlinearities and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The approach covers both the…
In this work, we will investigate the question of optimal control for bilinear systems with constrained endpoint. The optimal control will be characterized through a set of unconstrained minimization problems that approximate the former.…
A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a system governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the optimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two duality…
In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…
This paper proposes an optimal control problem for a parabolic equation with a nonlocal nonlinearity. The system is described by a parabolic equation involving a nonlinear term that depends on the solution and its integral over the domain.…
Fractional optimal control problems via a wide class of fractional operators with a general analytic kernel are introduced. Necessary optimality conditions of Pontryagin type for the considered problem are obtained after proving a Gronwall…
This article treats optimal sparse control problems with multiple constraints defined at intermediate points of the time domain. For such problems with intermediate constraints, we first establish a new Pontryagin maximum principle that…
This paper focuses on the optimal control of a class of stochastic Volterra integral equations. Here the coefficients are regular and not assumed to be of convolution type. We show that, under mild regularity assumptions, these equations…
In this paper we derive a necessary optimality condition for a local optimal solution of some control problems. These optimal control problems are governed by a semi-linear Vettsel boundary value problem of a linear elliptic equation. The…
In this article a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems involving a bilinear term in the boundary condition is studied. These kind of problems arise for instance in the identification of an unknown space-dependent Robin…
In this work, we present a second-order numerical scheme to address the solution of optimal control problems constrained by the evolution of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations arising from socio-economic dynamics. In order to design an…
We derive necessary conditions for optimality in control problems governed by hyperbolic partial differential equations in Goursat-Darboux form. The conditions consist of a set of Hamiltonian equations in Goursat form, side conditions for…
In this paper, we study second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of Karush--Kuhn--Tucker-type for locally optimal solutions in the sense of Pareto to a class of multi-objective optimal control problems with mixed…
A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…
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