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Total Authors: 2
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Engn Telecomunicacoes & Controle, Escola Politecn, BR-05508900 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Bordeaux 1, F-33405 Talence - France
[3] INRIA Bordeaux Sud Ouest, Bordeaux - France
Total Affiliations: 3
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY; v. 46, n. 4, p. 1157-1183, DEC 2009. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 4 |
| Abstract | |
This work is concerned with the existence of an optimal control strategy for the long-run average continuous control problem of piecewise-deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs). In Costa and Dufour (2008), sufficient conditions were derived to ensure the existence of an optimal control by using the vanishing discount approach. These conditions were mainly expressed in terms of the relative difference of the alpha-discount value functions. The main goal of this paper is to derive tractable conditions directly related to the primitive data of the PDMP to ensure the existence of an optimal control. The present work can be seen as a continuation of the results derived in Costa and Dufour (2008). Our main assumptions are written in terms of some integro-differential inequalities related to the so-called expected growth condition, and geometric convergence of the post-jump location kernel associated to the PDMP. An example based on the capacity expansion problem is presented, illustrating the possible applications of the results developed in the paper. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 03/06736-7 - Control and filtering of Markovian jumping parameters stochastic systems |
| Grantee: | João Bosco Ribeiro do Val |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |