• Title of article

    Multiple Objective Nonatomic Markov Decision Processes with Total Reward Criteria1

  • Author/Authors

    Eugene A. Feinberg، نويسنده , , Aleksey B. Piunovskiy، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوهفته نامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    22
  • From page
    45
  • To page
    66
  • Abstract
    We consider a Markov decision process with an uncountable state space and multiple rewards. For each policy, its performance is evaluated by a vector of total expected rewards. Under the standard continuity assumptions and the additional assumption that all initial and transition probabilities are nonatomic, we prove that the set of performance vectors for all policies is equal to the set of performance vectors for nonrandomized.Markov policies. This result implies the existence of optimal nonrandomized.Markov policies for nonatomic constrained Markov decision processes with total rewards. We provide two examples of applications of our results to constrained multiple objective problems in inventory control and finance.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
  • Record number

    932105