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Nonatomic total rewards Markov decision processes with multiple criteria

  • University of Liverpool

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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 initial distribution and transition probabilities are nonatomic, we prove that the performance space coincides with that generated by nonrandomized Markov policies. We also provide conditions for the existence of optimal policies when the goal is to maximize one component of the performance vector subject to inequality constraints on other components. We illustrate our results with examples of production and financial problems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-111
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Volume273
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2002

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