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"This text is unique in bringing together so many results hitherto found only in part in other texts and papers.... The text is fairly self-contained, inclusive of some basic mathematical results needed, and provides a rich diet of examples, applications, and exercises. The bibliographical material at the end of each chapter is excellent, not only from a historical perspective, but because it is valuable for researchers in acquiring a good perspective of the MDP research potential."
— Zentralblatt fur Mathematik
"... it is of great value to advanced-level students, researchers, and professional practitioners of this field to have now a complete volume (with more than 600 pages) devoted to this topic.... Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming represents an up-to-date, unified, and rigorous treatment of theoretical and computational aspects of discrete-time Markov decision processes."
— Journal of the American Statistical Association
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Model Formulation
- 3. Examples
- 4 Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes
- 5. Infinite-Horizon Models: Foundations
- 6. Discounted Markov Decision Problems
- 7. The Expected Total-Reward Criterion
- 8. Average Reward and Related Criteria
- 9. The Average Reward Criterion-Multichain and Communicating Models
- 10. Sensitive Discount Optimality
- 11. Continuous-Time Models
- Afterword
- Notation
- Appendix A. Markov Chains
- Appendix B. Semicontinuous Functions
- Appendix C. Normed Linear Spaces
- Appendix D. Linear Programming
- Bibliography
- Index