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In this paper we propose a new methodology for solving an uncertain stochastic Markovian control problem in discrete time. We call the proposed methodology the adaptive robust control. We demonstrate that the uncertain control problem under…

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The paper studies a class of quadratic optimal control problems for partially observable linear dynamical systems. In contrast to the full information case, the control is required to be adapted to the filtration generated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

We consider a discrete time stochastic Markovian control problem under model uncertainty. Such uncertainty not only comes from the fact that the true probability law of the underlying stochastic process is unknown, but the parametric family…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Tao Chen

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the system is governed by a functional forward-backward stochastic differential equation. Under standard assumptions, we establish the dynamic programming…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

We consider the diffusive limit of a typical pure-jump Markovian control problem as the intensity of the driving Poisson process tends to infinity. We show that the convergence speed is provided by the H\"older constant of the Hessian of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Marc Abeille , Bruno Bouchard , Lorenzo Croissant

We study a multiscale stochastic optimal control problem subject to state constraints on the slow variable. To address this class of problems, we develop a rigorous theoretical framework based on singular perturbation analysis, tailored to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

This paper derives an optimal control strategy for a simple stochastic dynamical system with constant drift and an additive control input. Motivated by the example of a physical system with an unexpected change in its dynamics, we take the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Daniel Gurevich , Debdipta Goswami , Charles L. Fefferman , Clarence W. Rowley

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

Stochastic optimal control problems have a long tradition in applied probability, with the questions addressed being of high relevance in a multitude of fields. Even though theoretical solutions are well understood in many scenarios, their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Sören Christensen , Claudia Strauch , Lukas Trottner

A new stochastic control problem of population dynamics under partial observation is formulated and analyzed both mathematically and numerically, with an emphasis on environmental and ecological problems. The decision-maker can only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Yuta Yaegashi , Motoh Tsujimura

We consider an infinite horizon optimal control problem for a pure jump Markov process $X$, taking values in a complete and separable metric space $I$, with noise-free partial observation. The observation process is defined as $Y_t =…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Alessandro Calvia

This work addresses stochastic optimal control problems where the unknown state evolves in continuous time while partial, noisy, and possibly controllable measurements are only available in discrete time. We develop a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Christian Bayer , Boualem Djehiche , Eliza Rezvanova , Raul Fidel Tempone

The present paper considers a stochastic optimal control problem, in which the cost function is defined through a backward stochastic differential equation with infinite horizon driven by G-Brownian motion. Then we study the regularities of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Mingshang Hu , Falei Wang

This paper studies an optimal stochastic impulse control problem in a finite horizon with a decision lag, by which we mean that after an impulse is made, a fixed number units of time has to be elapsed before the next impulse is allowed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Chang Li , Jiongmin Yong

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for the optimal stochastic control problem of stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The notion of viscosity solution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Jinniao Qiu

We investigate an optimal control problem motivated by neuroscience, where the dynamics is driven by a Poisson process with a controlled stochastic intensity and an unknown parameter. Given a prior distribution for the unknown parameter, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Nicolas Baradel , Quentin Cormier

This paper investigates the $H_{2}/H_{\infty}$ control problem for linear stochastic differential systems under partial observation. Unlike existing studies that assume full state accessibility, we consider the scenario where the controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Changwang Xiao , Nan Yang , Qingxin Meng

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem governed by a stochastic differential equation with delay in the control. Using a result of existence and uniqueness of a sufficiently regular mild solution of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 F. Gozzi , F. Masiero

In this paper we study the optimal stochastic control problem for a path-dependent stochastic system under a recursive path-dependent cost functional, whose associated Bellman equation from dynamic programming principle is a path-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Shanjian Tang , Fu Zhang