Percentile objective criteria in limiting average Markov control problems

Jerzy A. Filar, Dmitry Krass, Keith W. Ross

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    Abstract

    The point of view is adopted that there are many natural situations in which the controller is interested in finding a policy that will achieve a sufficiently high long-run average reward, that is, a target level with a sufficiently high probability, that is, a percentile. The key conceptual difference between this approach and the classical problem is that the present controller is not searching for an optimal policy but rather for a policy that is 'good enough,' knowing that such a policy will typically fail to exist if the target level and the percentile are set too high. Conceptually, the approach is somewhat analogous to that often adopted by statisticians in testing of hypotheses where it is desirable (but usually not possible) to minimize simultaneously the so-called 'type 1' and the 'type 2' errors.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)1273-1276
    Number of pages4
    JournalProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Volume2
    StatePublished - 1989
    EventProceedings of the 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 2 (of 3) - Tampa, FL, USA
    Duration: Dec 13 1989Dec 15 1989

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Modeling and Simulation
    • Control and Optimization

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