OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Marginal and Dependence Uncertainty: Bounds, Optimal Transport, and Sharpness	173
The Partial Controllability of Linear Stochastic Control Systems with Terminal Constraints and Its Applications to Game-Based Control Systems with Jumps	80
Obstructions to Asymptotic Stabilization	38
Controllability Issues of Linear Ensemble Systems over Multidimensional Parameterization Spaces	37
On Optimal Tracking Portfolio in Incomplete Markets: The Reinforcement Learning Approach	36
A Game Theory Approach for the Groundwater Pollution Control	24
Strong Stationarity Conditions for Optimal Control Problems Governed by a Rate-Independent Evolution Variational Inequality	22
Convergence Analysis of the Semismooth Newton Method for Sparse Control Problems Governed by Semilinear Elliptic Equations	20
Blackwell Optimality and Policy Stability for Long-Run Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control	20
On Stable Systems with Random Structure	20
Optimal Bounds for Numerical Approximations of Infinite Horizon Problems Based on Dynamic Programming Approach	19
Optimal Adaptive Output Regulation of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Stochastic Systems	18
Lifting Partial Smoothing to Solve HJB Equations and Stochastic Control Problems	18
Stability Analysis of Switched Homogeneous Positive System with Unstable Subsystems	18
Deep Relaxation of Controlled Stochastic Gradient Descent via Singular Perturbations	17
Interior Point Methods in Optimal Control Problems of Affine Systems: Convergence Results and Solving Algorithms	16
Stabilization for Wave Equation with Localized Kelvin–Voigt Damping on Cuboidal Domain: A Degenerate Case	16
On the Modeling of Impulse Control with Random Effects for Continuous Markov Processes	16
Semismoothness for Solution Operators of Obstacle-Type Variational Inequalities with Applications in Optimal Control	16
The $\mathcal{H}_2$-optimal Control Problem of CSVIU Systems: Discounted, Counterdiscounted, and Long-Run Solutions	16
Mean-Field Control for Diffusion Aggregation Equation with Coulomb Interaction	15
Signed-Perturbed Sums Estimation of ARX Systems: Exact Coverage and Strong Consistency	15
Primal-Dual Regression Approach for Markov Decision Processes with General State and Action Spaces	14
Quasilinear Variational Inequalities in Ferromagnetic Shielding: Well-Posedness, Regularity, and Optimal Control	14
A Constructive Approach to Existence of Equilibria in Time-Inconsistent Stochastic Control Problems	14

Mean-Field Stochastic Linear Quadratic Control Problem with Random Coefficients	14
A Viscous Ergodic Problem with Unbounded and Measurable Ingredients, Part 1: HJB Equation	13
Controlling Swarms toward Flocks and Mills	13
Detectability Conditions and State Estimation for Linear Time-Varying and Nonlinear Systems	13
Prescribed-Time Practical Inverse Optimal Output Tracking Control of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems	13
Reciprocity of Nonlinear Systems	13
An Enhanced Strategy for Adaptive Output-Feedback Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems	13
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Solvability for Delayed Stochastic LQ Optimal Control Problems	12
Optimal Dividend Strategies with Reinsurance under Contagious Systemic Risk	12
Approximation of Time Optimal Controls for Ginzburg–Landau Equations with Disturbance Coefficients	12
Optimal Control of Port-Hamiltonian Descriptor Systems with Minimal Energy Supply	12
Boundary Stabilization of Quasi-linear Hyperbolic Systems with Varying Time-Delay	12
On Borkar and Young Relaxed Control Topologies and Continuous Dependence of Invariant Measures on Control Policy	12
Robust Mean Field Linear Quadratic Social Control: Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Strategies	12
Stochastic Modified Flows for Riemannian Stochastic Gradient Descent	12
The Maximality Principle in Singular Control with Absorption and Its Applications to the Dividend Problem	11
Optimal Ratcheting of Dividend Payout Under Brownian Motion Surplus	11
Stabilizability of Strict Convex Processes with Respect to Arbitrary Stability Domains	11
Compactness of Fixed Point Maps and the Ball-Marsden-Slemrod Conjecture	11
Deflating Subspace Approach to UIO Design and Application to Fault-Tolerant Control	11
Learning-Ability of Discrete-Time Iterative Learning Control Systems with Feedforward	11
Two-Sided Singular Control of an Inventory with Unknown Demand Trend	10
Learning Stationary Nash Equilibrium Policies in $n$-Player Stochastic Games with Independent Chains	10
The Exact Boundary Controllability of Nodal Profile for Entropy Solutions to 1-D Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Linearly Degenerate Negative (Resp., Positive) Characteristic	10
State Estimation with Event Sensors: Observability Analysis and Multi-sensor Fusion	10
Stabilization of Highly Nonlinear Hybrid Stochastic Differential Delay Equations with Lévy Noise by Delay Feedback Control	10
RBFNN Adaptive Sampled-Data Control for Nonlinear Plants: A Validity Analysis	10
Estimation Entropy, Lyapunov Exponents, and Quantizer Design for Switched Linear Systems	10
Dynamic Programming Equation for the Mean Field Optimal Stopping Problem	10
Process-Controllability of Semilinear Evolution Equations and Applications	10
A Dependence of the Cost of Fast Controls for the Heat Equation on the Support of Initial Datum	9
Spectral Optimization of Inhomogeneous Plates	9
Nonparametric Adaptive Robust Control under Model Uncertainty	9
Boundary Stabilization of a Class of Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System with One Control	9
Relative Controllability of Quaternion Differential Equations with Delay	9
Second-Order Necessary Conditions for Optimal Control Problems with Endpoints-Constraints and Convex Control-Constraints	9
Lipschitz Stability and Hadamard Directional Differentiability for Elliptic and Parabolic Obstacle-Type Quasi-variational Inequalities	9
Slow Decay and Turnpike for Infinite-Horizon Hyperbolic Linear Quadratic Problems	9
A Model-Free First-Order Method for Linear Quadratic Regulator with $\boldsymbol{\tilde {O}(1/\varepsilon )}$ Sampling Complexity	9
Distributed Adaptive Nonlinear Control with Fusion Least-Squares	9
Fictitious Play in Zero-Sum Stochastic Games	9
Kinodynamic Control Systems and Discontinuities in Clearance	9
Optimal Switching between Locking Down and Opening the Economy Because of an Infection	9
Dual-Gain Function Based Prescribed-Time Output Feedback Control Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems	9
Identifiability of Infection Model Parameters Early in an Epidemic	9
The Role of Asymptomatic Infections in the COVID-19 Epidemic via Complex Networks and Stability Analysis	9
Switching Controls for Conservative Bilinear Quantum Systems with Discrete Spectrum	8
Algebraic Conditions to the Uniqueness Theorem for a Coupled System of Wave Equations	8
Stability and Genericity of Bang-Bang Controls in Affine Problems	8
A Small Gain Analysis of Single Timescale Actor Critic	8

Entropy Annealing for Policy Mirror Descent in Continuous Time and Space	8
Remarks on the Control of Two-Phase Stefan Free-Boundary Problems	8
Exact Controllability for a Refined Stochastic Wave Equation	8
Shape Optimization of Hemolysis for Shear Thinning Flows in Moving Domains	8
A Phase-Field Approach to Shape and Topology Optimization of Acoustic Waves in Dissipative Media	8
Stability and Passivity for a Class of Distributed Port-Hamiltonian Networks	8
State-Dependent Temperature Control for Langevin Diffusions	8
Continuous Rendezvous Algorithm for Memoryless Agents with Limited Visibility in the Euclidean Space	8
Linear Convergence of a Policy Gradient Method for Some Finite Horizon Continuous Time Control Problems	8
ERRATUM: LP Formulations of Discrete Time Long-Run Average Optimal Control Problems: The Nonergodic Case	7
The Structure of Optimal Protocols for a Mathematical Model of Chemotherapy with Antiangiogenic Effects	7
Proportional Integral Regulation Control of a One-Dimensional Semilinear Wave Equation	7
Adaptive Test Allocation for Outbreak Detection and Tracking in Social Contact Networks	7
Robust Stability of a Nonlinear ODE-PDE System	7
Markovian Foundations for Quasi-Stochastic Approximation	7
Learning Decentralized Linear Quadratic Regulators with ${\sqrt{T}}$ Regret	7
On the Exact Boundary Controllability of Semilinear Wave Equations	7
Output Regulation of Infinite-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems: A Forwarding Approach for Contraction Semigroups	7
Stochastic Maximum Principle for Subdiffusions and Its Applications	7
From the Optimal Singular Stochastic Control to the Optimal Stopping for Regime-Switching Processes	7
Exponential Stability for a Class of Discrete-Time Switched Systems and Its Applications to Multiagent Systems	7
Extended Mean Field Games with Singular Controls	7
Turnpike Properties for Mean-Field Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems	7
Revisiting SIR in the Age of COVID-19: Explicit Solutions and Control Problems	6
Global Well-Posedness of the KdV Equation on a Star-Shaped Network and Stabilization by Saturated Controllers	6
High Contrasting Diffusion in Heisenberg Group: Homogenization of Optimal Control via Unfolding	6
Propagation of Chaos for Mean Field Schrödinger Problems	6
Risk-Sensitive LQG Discounted Control Problems and Their Asymptotic Behavior	6
A Q-Learning Algorithm for Discrete-Time Linear-Quadratic Control with Random Parameters of Unknown Distribution: Convergence and Stabilization	6
Stochastic Fixed-Point Iterations for Nonexpansive Maps: Convergence and Error Bounds	6
A Finite Memory Interacting Pólya Contagion Network and Its Approximating Dynamical Systems	6
Distributional Robustness in Minimax Linear Quadratic Control with Wasserstein Distance	6
Existence of Optimal Pairs for Optimal Control Problems with States Constrained to Riemannian Manifolds	6
Recursive Optimal Stopping with Poisson Stopping Constraints	6
An Algorithm for Local Transverse Feedback Linearization	6
Equilibria for Time-Inconsistent Singular Control Problems	6
Analysis of RHC for Stabilization of Nonautonomous Parabolic Equations Under Uncertainty	6
Fractional Backward Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with Applications to Stochastic Optimal Control of Partially Observed Systems Driven by Lévy Processes	6
On Markov Perfect Equilibria in Discounted Stochastic ARAT Games	6
A General Maximum Principle for Optimal Control of Stochastic Differential Delay Systems	5
A Mixed Passivity/Small-Gain Theorem for Sobolev Input-Output Stability	5
Magnetic Bernstein Inequalities and Spectral Inequality on Thick Sets for the Landau Operator	5
Near-Optimal Distributed Linear-Quadratic Regulator for Networked Systems	5
Singular Perturbation of Zero-Sum Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games	5
A Stability Dichotomy for Discrete-Time Linear Switching Systems in Dimension Two	5
Subdifferentiation of Nonconvex Sparsity-Promoting Functionals on Lebesgue Spaces	5
Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks	5
Average Cost Minimization Problems Subject to State Constraints	5
Strategic Geometric Graphs through Mean Field Games	5
Stochastic Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problems with Regime-Switching Jumps in Infinite Horizon	5
Quantum Coherent and Measurement Feedback Control Based on Atoms Coupled with a Semi-infinite Waveguide	5
Global Optimization via Schrödinger–Föllmer Diffusion	5
Optimal Moral-Hazard-Free Reinsurance Under Extended Distortion Premium Principles	5
On an Approximation of Average Cost per Unit Time Impulse Control of Markov Processes	5
Control of a Linearized Viscous Liquid–Tank System with Surface Tension	5
Continuity Properties of Value Functions in Information Structures for Zero-Sum and General Games and Stochastic Teams	5
Topography Optimization for Enhancing Microalgal Growth in Raceway Ponds	5
Analysis of the Implicit Euler Time-Discretization of Semiexplicit Differential-Algebraic Linear Complementarity Systems	5
Existence of Optimal Control for Nonlinear Fokker–Planck Equations in $\boldsymbol{L^1(\mathbb{R}^d)}$.	5
Learning Optimal Policies in Potential Mean Field Games: Smoothed Policy Iteration Algorithms	5
Two Sparse Control Strategies for the Delayed Heterogeneous Cucker–Smale Model	5
Feedforward Neural Networks and Compositional Functions with Applications to Dynamical Systems	5
Homogeneous Control Systems on Cones and Nonovershooting Finite-Time Stabilizers	5
Second-Order Hamilton–Jacobi PDE Problems and Certain Related First-Order Problems, Part 1: Approximation	5
An Optimal Control Problem with Terminal Stochastic Linear Complementarity Constraints	5
Local Time Pushed Mixed Equilibrium Strategies for Time-Inconsistent Stopping Problems	5
Phase-Field Topology Optimization with Periodic Microstructure	5
A Class of Stochastic Games and Moving Free Boundary Problems	5
Singular Stochastic Control Problems Motivated by the Optimal Sustainable Exploitation of an Ecosystem	5
Stationary Markov Nash Equilibria for Nonzero-Sum Constrained ARAT Markov Games	5