Optimal Control on Complex Networks Lozovanu, Dmitrii. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Pickl, Stefan Wolfgang. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XIX, 396 p. 41 illus. online resource. This book presents recent findings and results concerning the solutions of especially finite state-space Markov decision problems and determining Nash equilibria for related stochastic games with average and total expected discounted reward payoffs. In addition, it focuses on a new class of stochastic games: stochastic positional games that extend and generalize the classic deterministic positional games. It presents new algorithmic results on the suitable implementation of quasi-monotonic programming techniques. Moreover, the book presents applications of positional games within a class of multi-objective discrete control problems and hierarchical control problems on networks. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers and graduate students who are interested in Markov theory, control theory, optimization and games. Discrete Markov Processes and Numerical Algorithms for Markov Chains -- Markov Decision Processes and Stochastic Control Problems on Networks -- Stochastic Games and Positional Games on Networks. by Dmitrii Lozovanu, Stefan Wolfgang Pickl. Operations research Mathematics Management science Mathematical optimization Algorithms Operations Research and Decision Theory Applications of Mathematics Operations Research, Management Science Optimization Algorithms T57.6-.97 9783031401800 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40180-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40180-0 240112 20251030110919.0 978-3-031-40180-0