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We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

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We introduce a regulated stochastic diffusion model for the recycling rate and formulate a joint control problem over production and process innovation via the dynamics of recycling investment and product pricing. The resulting stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Bowen Xie , Yijin Gao

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

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

This paper considers linear-quadratic control of a non-linear dynamical system subject to arbitrary cost. I show that for this class of stochastic control problems the non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be transformed into a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. J. Kappen

We consider a stochastic control problem with the assumption that the system is controlled until the state process breaks the fixed barrier. Assuming some general conditions, it is proved that the resulting Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations…

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In this article, we provide a numerical method based on fitted finite volume method to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation coming from stochastic optimal control problems. The computational challenge is due to the nature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the objective functional is described by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion. Under standard assumptions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

We consider a production-inventory control model with finite capacity and two different production rates, assuming that the cumulative process of customer demand is given by a compound Poisson process. It is possible at any time to switch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Pablo Azcue , Esther Frostig , Nora Muler

Controlling the stochastic dynamics of biological populations is a challenge that arises across various biological contexts. However, these dynamics are inherently nonlinear and involve a discrete state space, i.e., the number of molecules,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

In this paper, we study one kind of stochastic recursive optimal control problem with the obstacle constraints for the cost function where the cost function is described by the solution of one reflected backward stochastic differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhen Wu , Zhiyong Yu

We consider an inventory system whose state is modeled by a L\'{e}vy process. There are two types of costs--the running costs and the inventory control costs. The running costs (also known as the holding/penalty costs) are incurred…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Jinbiao Wu , Haolin Feng , Dacheng Yao

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

Inventory and queueing systems are often designed by controlling weighted combination of some time-averaged performance metrics (like cumulative holding, shortage, server-utilization or congestion costs); but real-world constraints, like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Madhu Dhiman , Veeraruna Kavitha , Nandyala Hemachandra

We consider a class of closed loop stochastic optimal control problems in finite time horizon, in which the cost is an expectation conditional on the event that the process has not exited a given bounded domain. An important difficulty is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière , Pierre-Louis Lions

We study an inverse problem of the stochastic optimal control of general diffusions with performance index having the quadratic penalty term of the control process. Under mild conditions on the system dynamics, the cost functions, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Yumiharu Nakano

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation with the cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for short). This kind of cost functional can cover the general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We consider an inventory system in which inventory level fluctuates as a Brownian motion in the absence of control. The inventory continuously accumulates cost at a rate that is a general convex function of the inventory level, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Jim Dai , Dacheng Yao

This paper is concerned with a stochastic recursive optimal control problem with time delay, where the controlled system is described by a stochastic differential delayed equation (SDDE) and the cost functional is formulated as the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Jingtao Shi , Huanshui Zhang