Cost‐efficient monitoring of continuous‐time stochastic processes based on discrete observations

Hidekazu Yoshioka, Yuta Yaegashi, Motoh Tsujimura and Yumi Yoshioka

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, 113-138

Abstract: Planning a cost‐efficient monitoring policy of stochastic processes arises from many industrial problems. We formulate a simple discrete‐time monitoring problem of continuous‐time stochastic processes with its applications to several industrial problems. A key in our model is a doubling trick of the variables, with which we can construct an algorithm to solve the problem. The cost‐efficient monitoring policy balancing between the observation cost and information loss is governed by an optimality equation of a fixed point type, which is solvable with an iterative algorithm based on the Feynman‐Kac formula. This is a new linkage between monitoring problems and mathematical sciences. We show regularity results of the optimization problem and present a numerical algorithm for its approximation. A problem having model ambiguity is presented as well. The presented model is applied to problems of environment, ecology, and energy, having qualitatively different target stochastic processes with each other.

Date: 2021
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