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We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex, and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. By introducing a new approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Martin Gugat , Michael Schuster , Enrique Zuazua

We investigate an optimization problem governed by an elliptic partial differential equation with uncertain parameters. We introduce a robust optimization framework that accounts for uncertain model parameters. The resulting non-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Alessandro Alla , Michael Hinze , Philip Kolvenbach , Oliver Lass , Stefan Ulbrich

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

In this paper we study the optimal control of a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations which have nonlinear constituents that are only accessible by data and are approximated by nonsmooth ReLU neural networks. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Kathrin Völkner

This work is concerned with second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for optimal control of a non-smooth semilinear elliptic partial differential equation, where the nonlinearity is the non-smooth max-function and thus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Vu Huu Nhu

Control systems involving unknown parameters appear a natural framework for applications in which the model design has to take into account various uncertainties. In these circumstances the performance criterion can be given in terms of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Piernicola Bettiol , Nathalie Khalil

We derive existence results and first order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems governed by quasilinear parabolic PDEs with a class of first order nonlinearities that include for instance quadratic gradient terms.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Lucas Bonifacius , Fabian Hoppe , Hannes Meinlschmidt , Ira Neitzel

Shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) are non-smooth and non-convex optimization problems. The non-smoothness arises due to the variational inequality constraint, which makes it challenging to derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Nico Goldammer , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

In this manuscript, we consider a control system governed by a general ordinary differential equation on a Riemannian manifold, with its endpoints satisfying some inequalities and equalities, and its control constrained to a closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Li Deng

This paper is concerned with the minimisation of peak stresses occurring in linear elasticity. We propose to minimise the maximal von Mises stress of the elastic body. This leads to a nonsmooth shape functional. We derive the shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Phillip Baumann , Kevin Sturm

This paper proposes a new indirect solution method for solving state-constrained optimal control problems by revisiting the well-established optimal control theory and addressing the long-standing issue of discontinuous control and costate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Kenshiro Oguri

In this article, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for a constrained optimal control problem formulated in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. To this end, we introduce a new notion of localised metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

In this paper, an optimal control problem governed by a class of p-Laplacian elliptic equations is studied. In particular, as no monotonicity assumption is assumed on the nonlinear term, the state equation may admit several solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Shu Luan

A class of non-smooth and non-convex optimization problems with penalty constraints linked to variational inequalities (VI) is studied with respect to its shape differentiability. The specific problem stemming from quasi-brittle fracture…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Victor A. Kovtunenko , Karl Kunisch

This paper investigates the near optimal control for a kind of linear stochastic control systems governed by the forward backward stochastic differential equations, where both the drift and diffusion terms are allowed to depend on controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Liangquan Zhang , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Laurent Pfeiffer

Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems are frequently encountered in much of statistics, business, science and engineering, but they are not yet widely recognized as a technology in the sense of scalability. A reason for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper we analyze the relaxed form of a shape optimization problem with state equation $\{{array}{ll} -div \big(a(x)Du\big)=f\qquad\hbox{in}D \hbox{boundary conditions on}\partial D. {array}.$ The new fact is that the term $f$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Faustino Maestre