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Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems

In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

Birkhäuser
  • Presents cutting-edge developments in many different areas of applied mathematics
  • Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the topic
  • Contributions written by experts in the field?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications (SCFA)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Discrete-Time Inventory Problems with Lead-Time and Order-Time Constraint

    • Lankere Benkherouf, Alain Bensoussan
    Pages 13-29
  3. Approximation of Infinite Horizon Discounted Cost Markov Decision Processes

    • François Dufour, Tomás Prieto-Rumeau
    Pages 59-76
  4. A Constrained Optimization Problem with Applications to Constrained MDPs

    • Xianping Guo, Qingda Wei, Junyu Zhang
    Pages 125-150
  5. Optimal Execution of Derivatives: A Taylor Expansion Approach

    • Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle, Yuemeng Sun
    Pages 151-156
  6. A Survey of Some Model-Based Methods for Global Optimization

    • Jiaqiao Hu, Yongqiang Wang, Enlu Zhou, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus
    Pages 157-179
  7. Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control Problems for Hybrid Switching Diffusions

    • Héctor Jasso-Fuentes, George Yin
    Pages 203-223
  8. A Direct Approach to the Solution of Optimal Multiple-Stopping Problems

    • Richard H. Stockbridge, Chao Zhu
    Pages 283-299

About this book

This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments. These topics include various aspects of dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and infinite-dimensional linear programming. In all, the work comprises 18 carefully selected papers written by experts in their respective fields.

Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems will be a valuable resource for all practitioners, researchers, and professionals in applied mathematics and operations research who work in the areas of stochastic control, mathematical finance, queueing theory, and inventory systems. It may also serve as a supplemental text for graduate courses in optimal control and dynamic games.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Probability and Statistics, Center for Research in Mathematics, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Daniel Hernández-Hernández

  • , Department of Mathematics, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico

    J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa

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