Multi‐Armed Bandit Allocation Indices
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Publication:3083924
DOI10.1002/9780470980033zbMath1401.90257OpenAlexW2499002200MaRDI QIDQ3083924
Richard R. Weber, Kevin D. Glazebrook, J. C. Gittins
Publication date: 24 March 2011
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470980033
Search theory (90B40) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Dynamic programming (90C39) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02) Sequential statistical design (62L05)
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