Letter to the Editor—Criterion Equivalence in Discrete Dynamic Programming

Steven A. Lippman
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Steven A. Lippman: University of California, Los Angeles, California

Operations Research, 1969, vol. 17, issue 5, 920-922

Abstract: This note shows that for finite state-and-action-space Markovian decision processes, a policy is 1-optimal if and only if it is average overtaking optimal, so the two criteria are equivalent.

Date: 1969
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