02915nam 2200469 450 991048359160332120210211093607.03-030-56678-110.1007/978-3-030-56678-4(CKB)4100000011435752(MiAaPQ)EBC6346698(DE-He213)978-3-030-56678-4(PPN)258862343(PPN)250218224(EXLCZ)99410000001143575220210211d2021 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFoundations of average-cost nonhomogeneous controlled Markov chains /Xi-Ren Cao1st ed. 2021.Cham, Switzerland :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource (VIII, 120 p. 36 illus., 3 illus. in color.) SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering. Control, automation and robotics3-030-56677-3 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Confluencity and State Classification -- Chapter 3. Optimization of Average Rewards and Bias: Single Class -- Chapter 4. Optimization of Average Rewards: Multi-Chains -- Chapter 5. The Nth-Bias and Blackwell Optimality.This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of the optimization of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains. It develops new insights and new methodologies for systems in which concepts such as stationarity, ergodicity, periodicity and connectivity do not apply. This brief introduces the novel concept of confluencity and applies a relative optimization approach. It develops a comprehensive theory for optimization of the long-run average of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains. The book shows that confluencity is the most fundamental concept in optimization, and that relative optimization is more suitable for treating the systems under consideration than standard ideas of dynamic programming. Using confluencity and relative optimization, the author classifies states as confluent or branching and shows how the under-selectivity issue of the long-run average can be easily addressed, multi-class optimization implemented, and Nth biases and Blackwell optimality conditions derived. These results are presented in a book for the first time and so may enhance the understanding of optimization and motivate new research ideas in the area.SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering.Control, automation and robotics.Markov processesMarkov processes.519.233Cao Xi-Ren771929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483591603321Foundations of average-cost nonhomogeneous controlled Markov chains2843935UNINA