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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…

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We consider a control problem where the system is driven by a decoupled as well as a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation. We prove the existence of an optimal control in the class of relaxed controls, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Fouzia Baghery , Nabil Khelfallah , Brahim Mezerdi , Isabelle Turpin

We consider the linear quadratic Gaussian control problem with a discounted cost functional for descriptor systems on the infinite time horizon. Based on recent results from the deterministic framework, we characterize the feasibility of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Matthias Voigt

We solve two stochastic control problems in which a player tries to minimize or maximize the exit time from an interval of a Brownian particle, by controlling its drift. The player can change from one drift to another but is subject to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Robert C. Dalang , Laura Vinckenbosch

This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

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We consider a general class of dynamic resource allocation problems within a stochastic optimal control framework. This class of problems arises in a wide variety of applications, each of which intrinsically involves resources of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Xuefeng Gao , Yingdong Lu , Mayank Sharma , Mark S. Squillante , Joost W. Bosman

We consider a linear-quadratic pde constrained optimal control problem on an evolving surface with pointwise state constraints. We reformulate the optimization problem on a fixed surface and approximate the reformulated problem by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

In this paper we consider non convex control problems of stochastic differential equations driven by relaxed controls. We present existence of optimal controls and then develop necessary conditions of optimality. We cover both continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Nasir U. Ahmed , Charalambos D. Charalambous

We study a signature-driven numerical scheme to solve multi-dimensional linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic control problems. Using that linear signature functionals are dense in the natural class of admissible controls, we show that our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Alif Aqsha , Peter Bank , Leandro Sánchez-Betancourt

In ergodic singular stochastic control problems, a decision-maker can instantaneously adjust the evolution of a state variable using a control of bounded variation, with the goal of minimizing a long-term average cost functional. The cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Alessandro Calvia , Federico Cannerozzi , Giorgio Ferrari

An optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with control cost chosen as the BV semi-norm in time is analyzed. This formulation enhances piecewise constant optimal controls and penalizes the number of jumps. Existence of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Sebastian Engel , Karl Kunisch

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

This paper studies a stochastic optimal control problem with state constraint, where the state equation is described by a controlled stochastic evolution equation with jumps in Hilbert Space and the control domain is assumed to be convex.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under a type of consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. By the separation theorem for convex sets, we get the representation theorems for this convex expectation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Xiaojuan Li , Mingshang Hu

In this article we consider a stochastic optimal control problem where the dynamics of the state process, $X(t)$, is a controlled stochastic differential equation with jumps, delay and \emph{noisy memory}. The term noisy memory is, to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Kristina R. Dahl , Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed , Bernt Øksendal , Elin Røse

In this paper, the optimal strong error estimates for stochastic parabolic optimal control problem with additive noise and integral state constraint are derived based on time-implicit and finite element discretization. The continuous and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Qiming Wang , Wanfang Shen , Wenbin Liu

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Jiongmin Yong

We prove a general existence result in stochastic optimal control in discrete time where controls take values in conditional metric spaces, and depend on the current state and the information of past decisions through the evolution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Asgar Jamneshan , Michael Kupper , José Miguel Zapata

This paper is concerned with optimal control of stochastic fully coupled forward-backward linear quadratic (FBLQ) problems with indefinite control weight costs. In order to obtain the state feedback representation of the optimal control, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

We consider the problem of computing optimal linear control policies for linear systems in finite-horizon. The states and the inputs are required to remain inside pre-specified safety sets at all times despite unknown disturbances. In this…

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