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This paper is concerned with the optimal control of hysteresis-reaction-diffusion systems. We study a control problem with two sorts of controls, namely distributed control functions, or controls which act on a part of the boundary of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Christian Münch

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a coupled non-linear system of reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion, consisting of two partial differential equations representing the density of cells and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Georges Chamoun , Mazen Saad , Toni Sayah , Sarah Serhal

We consider the problem of controlling the group behavior of a large number of dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with each other. These systems are assumed to have identical dynamics (e.g., birds flock, robot swarm) and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yongxin Chen

We present a formulation of an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional diffusion process governed by a Fokker-Planck equation to achieve a nonequilibrium steady state with a desired circulation while accelerating convergence toward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Norihisa Namura , Hiroya Nakao

In the present paper we deal with an optimal control problem related to a model in population dynamics; more precisely, the goal is to modify the behavior of a given density of individuals via another population of agents interacting with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Mattia Bongini , Giuseppe Buttazzo

We propose a mean-field optimal control problem for the parameter identification of a given pattern. The cost functional is based on the Wasserstein distance between the probability measures of the modeled and the desired patterns. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Martin Burger , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Claudia Totzeck

We analyze some systems of partial differential equations arising in the theory of mean field type control with congestion effects. We look for weak solutions. Our main result is the existence and uniqueness of suitably defined weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Lauriere

In this paper, we show that unbalanced optimal transport provides a convenient framework to handle reaction and diffusion processes in a unified metric framework. We use a constructive method, alternating minimizing movements for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Thomas Gallouët , Maxime Laborde , Léonard Monsaingeon

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We analyze an algorithm to numerically solve the mean-field optimal control problems by approximating the optimal feedback controls using neural networks with problem specific architectures. We approximate the model by an $N$-particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 H. Mete Soner , Josef Teichmann , Qinxin Yan

In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems for a one-dimensional time-discrete constrained quasilinear diffusion state-systems of singular Allen--Cahn types and its regularized approximating problems. We note that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Shodai Kubota

In this paper, a sub-optimal boundary control strategy for a free boundary problem is investigated. The model is described by a non-smooth convection-diffusion equation. The control problem is addressed by an instantaneous strategy based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Youness Mezzan , Moulay Hicham Tber

We consider a class of stochastic control problems which has been widely used in optimal foraging theory. The state processes have two distinct dynamics, characterized by two pairs of drift and diffusion coefficients, depending on whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Zengjing Chen , Panyu Wu , Xiaowen Zhou

Kernel embeddings of distributions have recently gained significant attention in the machine learning community as a data-driven technique for representing probability distributions. Broadly, these techniques enable efficient computation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Adam J. Thorpe , Meeko M. K. Oishi

This paper is to investigate the control problem of maximizing the net benefit of a single species while the cost of the resource allocation is minimized in a population model which can be described by a reaction diffusion advection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Lianzhang Bao , Huilai Li , Haojian Liang , Guangliang Zhao

In this paper, a nonlinear 2D Optimal Control Problem (2DOCP) is considered. The quadratic performance index of a nonlinear cost function is endowed with the state and control functions. In this problem, the dynamic constraint of the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Kourosh Parand , Sobhan Latifi , Mehdi Delkhosh , Mohammad M. Moayeri

We formulate an optimization problem for maximizing the data rate of a common message transmitted from nodes within an airborne network broadcast to a central station receiver while maintaining a set of intra-network rate demands. Assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

The time-fractional optimal transport (OT) and mean-field planning (MFP) models are developed to describe the anomalous transport of the agents in a heterogeneous environment such that their densities are transported from the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Yiqun Li , Hong Wang , Wuchen Li

We develop a class of barycenter problems based on mean field control problems in three dimensions with associated reactive-diffusion systems of unnormalized multi-species densities. This problem is the generalization of the Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Arjun Vijaywargiya , Guosheng Fu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

The optimal control of two-level systems by time-dependent laser fields is studied using a variational theory. We obtain, for the first time, general analytical expressions for the optimal pulse shapes leading to global maximization or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Garcia , Ilia Grigorenko