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
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
Journal title :
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications