Product Description

This book presents a comprehensive development of effective numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time. The process models are diffusions, jump-diffusions, or reflected diffusions of the type that occur in the majority of current applications. All the usual problem formulations are included, as well as those of more recent interest such as ergodic control, singular control and the types of reflected diffusions used as models of queuing networks. Applications to complex deterministic problems are illustrated via application to a large class of problems from the calculus of variations. The general approach is known as the Markov Chain Approximation Method. The required background to stochastic processes is surveyed, there is an extensive development of methods of approximation, and a chapter is devoted to computational techniques. The book is written on two levels, that of practice (algorithms and applications) and that of the mathematical development. Thus the methods and use should be broadly accessible. This update to the first edition will include added material on the control of the 'jump term' and the 'diffusion term.' There will be additional material on the deterministic problems, solving the Hamilton-Jacobi equations, for which the authors' methods are still among the most useful for many classes of problems. All of these topics are of great and growing current interest.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #665995 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 475 pages

Review
"The second edition of this acclaimed book from Springer-Verlag has the latest theoretical and practical information on solving stochastic control problems. Including proofs and algorithms using diffusion, jump-diffusion, and other process models, the authors help make randomness a little less scary."
Amazon.com Delivers Mathematics and Statistics e-bulletin, July 2001

Book Info
A widely accessible and comprehensive development of numerical methods for the majority of stochastic control and uncontrolled problems with diffusion, jump-diffusion, and other models. Written on two levels: mathematical proofs, and algorithms and applications. DLC: Stochastic control theory.