Optimal control of random walks, birth and death processes, and queues
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Publication:3891525
DOI10.2307/1426467zbMath0446.60062MaRDI QIDQ3891525
Publication date: 1981
Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426467
dynamic programming; supermodularity; Markov decision process; random walk; birth and death process; monotone optimal policy
60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks
60K25: Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)
90C40: Markov and semi-Markov decision processes
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