On the undecidability of probabilistic planning and related stochastic optimization problems

DOI10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00378-8zbMath1082.68806MaRDI QIDQ814465

Anne Condon, Omid Madani, Steve Hanks

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processes; Stochastic optimization; Computability; Computational complexity; Undecidability; Discounted; Infinity-horizon; Partial observability; Probabilistic planning; Unobservability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68Q25: Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity

90C15: Stochastic programming

03D35: Undecidability and degrees of sets of sentences

68T37: Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence

68T20: Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.)

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