xvii, 649 pages : 25 cm The past decade has seen considerable theoretical and applied research on Markov decision processes, as well as the growing use of these models in ecology, economics, communications engineering, and other fields where outcomes are uncertain and sequential decision-making processes are needed. A timely response to this increased activity, Martin L. Puterman's new work provides a uniquely up-to-date, unified, and rigorous treatment of the theoretical, computational, and...
Topics: Markov processes, Statistical decision, Dynamic programming, Markov Chains, Stochastic Processes,...
