1 Abstract. This paper is concerned with the optimal production planning in a dynamic stochastic manufacturing system consisting of a single or parallel machine that are failure prone and facing a constant demand. The objective is to choose the rate of production over time in order to minimize the long-run average cost of production and surplus. The analysis proceeds with a study of the corresp...

The paper concerns the infinite dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation related to optimal control problem regulated by a transport equation with boundary control. A suitable viscosity solution approach is needed in view of the presence of the unbounded control-related term in the Hilbertian state equation. An existence-and-uniqueness result is obtained.

Abstract-we study the ergodic control problem related to stochastic production planning in a single product manufacturing system with production constraints. The existence of a solution to the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and its properties are shown. Furthermore, the optimal control for the ergodic control problem and an example are given.@ 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All righ...

Topics considered here include: examples of optimal control problems; dynamic programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; verification theorems; the Pontryagin Maximum Principle Principle. The examples include many with an economic flavor, but others too (including the Hopf-Lax solution formula for ut + H(Du) = 0 with H convex). There’s much more here than we’ll have time to do in lec...

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the minimization of energy spent in order that a controlled diffusion process reaches a given target, a d-dimensional bounded domain. The exterior Dirichlet problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is studied for a class of criteria which includes the case of energy. Extensions to diffusion with jumps, examples and some other reachability pro...

We modified the rational Jacobi elliptic functions method to construct some new exact solutions for nonlinear differential difference equations in mathematical physics via the lattice equation, the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a saturable nonlinearity, the discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation, and the quintic discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Some new types of the Jac...

Trajectory-based approaches to quantum mechanics include the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation and Nelson’s stochastic interpretation. It is shown that the usual route to establishing the validity of such interpretations, via a decomposition of the Schrödinger equation into a continuity equation and a modified Hamilton-Jacobi equation, fails for some quantum states. A very simple example is provid...

We apply the stochastic Perron method of Bayraktar and Sîrbu to a general infinite horizon optimal control problem, where the state X is a controlled diffusion process, and the state constraint is described by a closed set. We prove that the value function v is bounded from below (resp., from above) by a viscosity supersolution (resp., subsolution) of the related state constrained problem for t...

We determine the solutions of a nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation which arises in the modelling of mean-variance hedging subject to a terminal condition. Firstly we establish those forms of the equation which admit the maximal number of Lie point symmetries and then examine each in turn. We show that the Lie method is only suitable for an equation of maximal symmetry. We indicate the a...

A stochastic Ramsey model is studied with the Cobb-Douglas production function maximizing the expected discounted utility of consumption. We transformed the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation associated with the stochastic Ramsey model so as to transform the dimension of the state space by changing the variables. By the viscosity solution method, we established the existence of viscosity so...