Constrained Markov Decision Processes (Hardcover: 242 pages)
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Product Details: Constrained Markov Decision Processes
| As told to: | DG Altman |
| Author: | D. G. Altman, Eitan Altman, Altman Altman |
| Format: | Hardcover: 242 pages. |
| Publisher: | Chapman & Hall (03/01/1999) |
| ISBN: | 0849303826 |
| ISBN13: | 9780849303821 |
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Publisher Notes: Constrained Markov Decision Processes
- This book provides a unified approach for the study of constrained Markov decision processes with a finite state space and unbounded costs. Unlike the single controller case considered in many other books, the author considers a single controller with several objectives, such as minimizing delays and loss, probabilities, and maximization of throughputs. It is desirable to design a controller that minimizes one cost objective, subject to inequality constraints on other cost objectives. This framework describes dynamic decision problems arising frequently in many engineering fields. A thorough overview of these applications is presented in the introduction. The book is then divided into three sections that build upon each other. The first part explains the theory for the finite state space. The author characterizes the set of achievable expected occupation measures as well as performance vectors, and identifies simple classes of policies among which optimal policies exist. This allows the reduction of the original dynamic into a linear program. A Lagranian approach is then used to derive the dual linear program using dynamic programming techniques. In the second part, these results are extended to the infinite state space and action spaces. The author provides two frameworks: the case where costs are bounded below and the contracting framework. The third part builds upon the results of the first two parts and examines asymptotical results of the convergence of both the value and the policies in the time horizon and in the discount factor. Finally, several state truncation algorithms that enable the approximation of the solution of the original control problem via finite linear programsare given.
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