Title :
Nonatomic total rewards Markov decision processes with multiple criteria
Author :
Feinberg, E.A. ; Piunovskiy, A.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math. & Stat., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Abstract :
We consider a Markov decision process with an uncountable state space for which the vector performance functional has the form of expected total rewards. Under the single condition that the fixed initial distribution and transition probabilities are nonatomic, we prove that for any policy there is a nonrandomized Markov policy such that for these two policies the performance vectors are equal
Keywords :
Markov processes; decision theory; probability; vectors; expected total rewards; fixed initial distribution; nonatomic total rewards Markov decision processes; nonrandomized Markov policy; transition probabilities; uncountable state space; vector performance functional; Constraint optimization; Extraterrestrial measurements; History; Mathematics; Probability distribution; Random variables; State-space methods; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6638-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2000.912853