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Foundations of AverageCost Nonhomogeneous Controlled Markov Chains (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering),Used
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This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of the optimization of timenonhomogeneous 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 longrun average of timenonhomogeneous 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 underselectivity issue of the longrun average can be easily addressed, multiclass 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.
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