Controlled Markov Processes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)

This book is devoted to the systematic exposition of the contemporary theory of controlled Markov processes with discrete time parameter or in another termi nology multistage Markovian decision processes. We discuss the applications of this theory to various concrete problems. Particular attention is paid to mathe matical models of economic planning, taking account of stochastic factors. The authors strove to construct the exposition in such a way that a reader interested in the applications can get through the book with a minimal mathe matical apparatus. On the other hand, a mathematician will find, in the appropriate chapters, a rigorous theory of general control models, based on advanced measure theory, analytic set theory, measurable selection theorems, and so forth. We have abstained from the manner of presentation of many mathematical monographs, in which one presents immediately the most general situation and only then discusses simpler special cases and examples. Wishing to separate out difficulties, we introduce new concepts and ideas in the simplest setting, where they already begin to work. Thus, before considering control problems on an infinite time interval, we investigate in detail the case of the finite interval. Here we first study in detail models with finite state and action spaces-a case not requiring a departure from the realm of elementary mathematics, and at the same time illustrating the most important principles of the theory."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 235
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	1979
Authors:	E. B Dynkin
Translators:	J.M. Danskin • C. Holland
Authors:	A.A. Yushkevich
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	292
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
ISBN-13:	978-1-4615-6748-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
LSN:	1-4615-6748-3
Barcode:	9781461567486

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