Negatively isotone optimal policies for random walk type Markov decision processes

DOI10.1007/BF01837023zbMath0478.90075MaRDI QIDQ1161451

Douglas J. White

Publication date: 1982

Published in: OR Spektrum (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

existence of optimal policiescomputational aspectconditional convexity assumptionHoward's policy space methodnegatively isotone policyrandom walk type Markov decision process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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