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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-information-and-optimization-sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0103</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0252-2667</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIOS-1601</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Multivariate fractional optimal stopping problems</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Tanaka</surname>
            <given-names>Teruo</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Information Sciences, 3-4-1 Ozuka-higashi, Hiroshima City University, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>941</fpage>
      <lpage>950</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>09</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>This paper present a development of new multivariate optimal stopping problems which associated the discrete time or continuous time stochastic processes with a fractional reward criterion. By applying the established reasoning approach in mathematical programming theory, the existence of an optimal stopping time for these problems will be established by assuming certain regularity conditions on the stochastic processes. </p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Fractional reward</kwd>
        <kwd>Optimal stopping</kwd>
        <kwd>Parametric method</kwd>
        <kwd>Stopping time</kwd>
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