Article ID: | iaor19992531 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 293 |
End Page Number: | 302 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
Authors: | Kurano Masami, Huang Youqiang, Song Jinjie, Hosaka Masanori |
In the framework of discounted Markov decision processes, we consider the case that the transition probability varies in some given domain at each time and its variation is unknown or unobservable. To this end we introduce a new model, named controlled Markov set-chains, based on Markov set-chains, and discuss its optimization under some partial order. Also, a numerical example is given to explain the theoretical results and the computation.