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Adaptive control for discrete-time Markov processes with unbounded costs: Discounted criterion

Evgueni I. Gordienko, J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa (1998)

Kybernetika

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We study the adaptive control problem for discrete-time Markov control processes with Borel state and action spaces and possibly unbounded one-stage costs. The processes are given by recurrent equations x t + 1 = F ( x t , a t , ξ t ) , t = 0 , 1 , ... with i.i.d. ℜ k -valued random vectors ξ t whose density ρ is unknown. Assuming observability of ξ t we propose the procedure of statistical estimation of ρ that allows us to prove discounted asymptotic optimality of two types of adaptive policies used early for the processes with bounded...

Average cost Markov control processes with weighted norms: existence of canonical policies

Evgueni Gordienko, Onésimo Hernández-Lerma (1995)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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This paper considers discrete-time Markov control processes on Borel spaces, with possibly unbounded costs, and the long run average cost (AC) criterion. Under appropriate hypotheses on weighted norms for the cost function and the transition law, the existence of solutions to the average cost optimality inequality and the average cost optimality equation are shown, which in turn yield the existence of AC-optimal and AC-canonical policies respectively.