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| fixed length control field |
01739 a2200217 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781119815037 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
IIT Kanpur |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
006.3 |
| Item number |
P871r |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Powell, Warren B. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Reinforcement learning and stochastic optimization |
| Remainder of title |
a unified framework for sequential decisions |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Warren B. Powell |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
John Wiley |
| Year of publication |
2022 |
| Place of publication |
Hoboken |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xxxiv, 1099p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The first step in sequential decision problems is to understand what decisions are being made. It is surprising how often it is that people faced with complex problems, which spans scientists in a lab to people trying to solve major health problems, are not able to identify the decisions they face. We then want to find a method for making decisions. There are at least 45 words in the English language that are equivalent to "method for making a decision," but the one we have settled on is policy. The term policy is very familiar to fields such as Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning, but with a much narrower interpretation than we will use. Other fields do not use the term at all. Designing effective policies will be the focus of most of this book. Even more subtle is identifying the different sources of uncertainty. It can be hard enough trying to identify potential decisions, but thinking about all the random events that might affect whatever it is that you are managing, whether it is reducing disease, managing inventories, or making investments, can seem like a hopeless challenge" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Reinforcement learning |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Decision making -- Statistical methods |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Mathematical optimization |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Stochastic analysis |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
