Description: Adaptive Markov Control Processes, Paperback by Hernandez-Lerma, O., ISBN 1461264545, ISBN-13 9781461264545, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book is concerned with a class of discrete-time stochastic control processes known as controlled Markov processes (CMPs), also known as Markov decision processes or Markov dynamic programs. Starting in the mid-1950swith Richard Bellman, many contributions to CMPs have been made, and applications to engineering, statistics and operations research, among other areas, have also been developed. The purpose of this book is to present some recent developments on the theory of adaptive CMPs, i. e. , CMPs that depend on unknown parameters. Thus at each decision time, the controller or decision-maker must estimate the true parameter values, and then adapt the control actions to the estimated values. We do not intend to describe all aspects of stochastic adaptive control; rather, the selection of material reflects our own research interests. The prerequisite for this book is a knowledgeof real analysis and prob ability theory at the level of, say, Ash (1972) or Royden (1968), but no previous knowledge of control or decision processes is required. The pre sentation, on the other hand, is meant to beself-contained,in the sensethat whenever a result from analysisor probability is used, it is usually stated in full and references are supplied for further discussion, if necessary. Several appendices are provided for this purpose. The material is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 contains the basic definitions about the stochastic control problems we are interested in; a brief description of some applications is also provided.
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Book Title: Adaptive Markov Control Processes
Number of Pages: Xiv, 148 Pages
Publication Name: Adaptive Markov Control Processes
Language: English
Publisher: Springer New York
Subject: Engineering (General), Probability & Statistics / Stochastic Processes, Probability & Statistics / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.4 Oz
Author: Onesimo Hernandez-Lerma
Subject Area: Mathematics, Technology & Engineering
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
