Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continuous Time written by Harold Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic control is a very active area of research. This monograph, written by two leading authorities in the field, has been updated to reflect the latest developments. It covers effective numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time on two levels, that of practice and that of mathematical development. It is broadly accessible for graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continuous Time written by Harold Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with numerical methods for stochastic control and optimal stochastic control problems. The random process models of the controlled or uncontrolled stochastic systems are either diffusions or jump diffusions. Stochastic control is a very active area of research and new prob lem formulations and sometimes surprising applications appear regularly. We have chosen forms of the models which cover the great bulk of the for mulations of the continuous time stochastic control problems which have appeared to date. The standard formats are covered, but much emphasis is given to the newer and less well known formulations. The controlled process might be either stopped or absorbed on leaving a constraint set or upon first hitting a target set, or it might be reflected or "projected" from the boundary of a constraining set. In some of the more recent applications of the reflecting boundary problem, for example the so-called heavy traffic approximation problems, the directions of reflection are actually discontin uous. In general, the control might be representable as a bounded function or it might be of the so-called impulsive or singular control types. Both the "drift" and the "variance" might be controlled. The cost functions might be any of the standard types: Discounted, stopped on first exit from a set, finite time, optimal stopping, average cost per unit time over the infinite time interval, and so forth.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continuous Time written by Harold J. Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The required background is surveyed, and there is an extensive development of methods of approximation and computational algorithms. The book is written on two levels: algorithms and applications, and mathematical proofs. Thus, the ideas should be very accessible to a broad audience."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Controlled Stochastic Delay Systems written by Harold Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Markov chain approximation methods are widely used for the numerical solution of nonlinear stochastic control problems in continuous time. This book extends the methods to stochastic systems with delays. The book is the first on the subject and will be of great interest to all those who work with stochastic delay equations and whose main interest is either in the use of the algorithms or in the mathematics. An excellent resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners, the work may be used as a graduate-level textbook for a special topics course or seminar on numerical methods in stochastic control.
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Download or read book Optimal Stochastic Control Stochastic Target Problems and Backward SDE written by Nizar Touzi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects some recent developments in stochastic control theory with applications to financial mathematics. We first address standard stochastic control problems from the viewpoint of the recently developed weak dynamic programming principle. A special emphasis is put on the regularity issues and, in particular, on the behavior of the value function near the boundary. We then provide a quick review of the main tools from viscosity solutions which allow to overcome all regularity problems. We next address the class of stochastic target problems which extends in a nontrivial way the standard stochastic control problems. Here the theory of viscosity solutions plays a crucial role in the derivation of the dynamic programming equation as the infinitesimal counterpart of the corresponding geometric dynamic programming equation. The various developments of this theory have been stimulated by applications in finance and by relevant connections with geometric flows. Namely, the second order extension was motivated by illiquidity modeling, and the controlled loss version was introduced following the problem of quantile hedging. The third part specializes to an overview of Backward stochastic differential equations, and their extensions to the quadratic case.
Download or read book Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations written by Peter E. Kloeden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) differs significantly from that of ordinary differential equations. This book provides an easily accessible introduction to SDEs, their applications and the numerical methods to solve such equations. From the reviews: "The authors draw upon their own research and experiences in obviously many disciplines... considerable time has obviously been spent writing this in the simplest language possible." --ZAMP
Download or read book Optimal Stochastic Control Stochastic Target Problems and Backward SDE written by Nizar Touzi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects some recent developments in stochastic control theory with applications to financial mathematics. We first address standard stochastic control problems from the viewpoint of the recently developed weak dynamic programming principle. A special emphasis is put on the regularity issues and, in particular, on the behavior of the value function near the boundary. We then provide a quick review of the main tools from viscosity solutions which allow to overcome all regularity problems. We next address the class of stochastic target problems which extends in a nontrivial way the standard stochastic control problems. Here the theory of viscosity solutions plays a crucial role in the derivation of the dynamic programming equation as the infinitesimal counterpart of the corresponding geometric dynamic programming equation. The various developments of this theory have been stimulated by applications in finance and by relevant connections with geometric flows. Namely, the second order extension was motivated by illiquidity modeling, and the controlled loss version was introduced following the problem of quantile hedging. The third part specializes to an overview of Backward stochastic differential equations, and their extensions to the quadratic case.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continuous Time written by Harold Joseph Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic control is a very active area of research and this monograph, written by two leading authorities in the field, has been updated to reflect the latest developments. It covers effective numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time on two levels: that of practice (algorithms and applications) and that of mathematical development. It is broadly accessible for graduate students and researchers.
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Download or read book Numerical Solutions to Stochastic Control Problems written by Zhiyi Shen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this thesis is to develop theoretically sound as well as numerically efficient Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) methods for solving discrete-time stochastic control problems motivated by insurance and finance problems. Despite its popularity in solving optimal stopping problems, the application of the LSMC method to stochastic control problems is hampered by several challenges. Firstly, the simulation of the state process is intricate in the absence of the optimal control policy in prior. Secondly, numerical methods only warrant the approximation accuracy of the value function over a bounded domain, which is incompatible with the unbounded set the state variable dwells in. Thirdly, given a considerable number of simulated paths, regression methods are computationally challenging. This thesis responds to the above problems. Chapter 2 develops a novel LSMC algorithm to solve discrete-time stochastic optimal control problems, referred to as the Backward Simulation and Backward Updating (BSBU) algorithm. The BSBU algorithm has three pillars: a construction of auxiliary stochastic control model, an artificial simulation of the post-action value of state process, and a shape-preserving sieve estimation method which equip the algorithm with a number of merits including obviating forward simulation and control randomization, evading extrapolating the value function, and alleviating computational burden of the tuning parameter selection. Chapter 3 proposes an alternative LSMC algorithm which directly approximates the optimal value function at each time step instead of the continuation function. This brings the benefits of faster convergence rate and closed-form expressions of the value function compared with the previously developed BSBU algorithm. We also develop a general argument for constructing an auxiliary stochastic control problem which inherits the continuity, monotonicity, and concavity of the original problem. This argument renders the LSMC algorithm circumvent extrapolating the value function in the backward recursion and can well adapt to other numerical methods. Chapter 4 studies a complicated stochastic control problem: the no-arbitrage pricing of the "Polaris Choice IV" variable annuities issued by the American International Group. The Polaris allows the income base to lock in the high-water-mark of the investment account over a certain monitoring period which is related to the timing of the policyholder's first withdrawal. By prudently introducing certain auxiliary state and control variables, we formulate the pricing problem into a Markovian stochastic optimal control framework. With a slight modification on the fee structure, we prove the existence of a bang-bang solution to the stochastic control problem: the policyholder's optimal withdrawal strategy is limited to a few choices. Accordingly, the price of the modified contract can be solved by the BSBU algorithm. Finally, we prove that the price of the modified contract is an upper bound for that of the Polaris with the real fee structure. Numerical experiments show that this bound is fairly tight.
Download or read book Rational Matrix Equations in Stochastic Control written by Tobias Damm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive treatment of rational matrix equations in stochastic systems, including various aspects of the field, previously unpublished results and explicit examples. Topics include modelling with stochastic differential equations, stochastic stability, reformulation of stochastic control problems, analysis of the rational matrix equation and numerical solutions. Primarily a survey in character, this monograph is intended for researchers, graduate students and engineers in control theory and applied linear algebra.
Download or read book Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control and Inverse Problems written by Baasansuren Jadamba and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inverse problems of identifying parameters and initial/boundary conditions in deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations constitute a vibrant and emerging research area that has found numerous applications. A related problem of paramount importance is the optimal control problem for stochastic differential equations. This edited volume comprises invited contributions from world-renowned researchers in the subject of control and inverse problems. There are several contributions on optimal control and inverse problems covering different aspects of the theory, numerical methods, and applications. Besides a unified presentation of the most recent and relevant developments, this volume also presents some survey articles to make the material self-contained. To maintain the highest level of scientific quality, all manuscripts have been thoroughly reviewed.
Download or read book Stochastic Optimal Control in Infinite Dimension written by Giorgio Fabbri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an introduction to stochastic optimal control in infinite dimension, this book gives a complete account of the theory of second-order HJB equations in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, focusing on its applicability to associated stochastic optimal control problems. It features a general introduction to optimal stochastic control, including basic results (e.g. the dynamic programming principle) with proofs, and provides examples of applications. A complete and up-to-date exposition of the existing theory of viscosity solutions and regular solutions of second-order HJB equations in Hilbert spaces is given, together with an extensive survey of other methods, with a full bibliography. In particular, Chapter 6, written by M. Fuhrman and G. Tessitore, surveys the theory of regular solutions of HJB equations arising in infinite-dimensional stochastic control, via BSDEs. The book is of interest to both pure and applied researchers working in the control theory of stochastic PDEs, and in PDEs in infinite dimension. Readers from other fields who want to learn the basic theory will also find it useful. The prerequisites are: standard functional analysis, the theory of semigroups of operators and its use in the study of PDEs, some knowledge of the dynamic programming approach to stochastic optimal control problems in finite dimension, and the basics of stochastic analysis and stochastic equations in infinite-dimensional spaces.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continious Time written by Harold Kushner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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