A language that requires less rigid coding on the part of the programmer. It typically features "dynamic typing," which gives the programmer more freedom to pass parameters at runtime without having ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1979), pp. 60-69 (10 pages) The policy iteration method of dynamic programming is studied in an abstract setting. It is shown to be equivalent ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...

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Many sequential decision problems can be formulated as Markov decision processes (MDPs) where the optimal value function (or cost-to-go function) can be shown to satisfy a monotone structure in some ...